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ARTICLE · 02 OCTOBER 2018

CBD Oil To Combat Exam Stress

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In a television commercial, a cool teenager confides that he is extremely tense about his final exams. Luckily, he has Original Clear Mind ...

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In a television commercial, a cool teenager confides that he is extremely tense about his final exams. Luckily, he has Original Clear Mind, ‘which helps me concentrate better and improves my academic performance’. The applicant considered touting this product to minors to be a grave mistake. The applicant was confusing ordinary CBD oil with the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis: THC. The President was drawn in by this reasoning: the advertising was prohibited because of the nature of the product. But the Dutch Children and Youth Advertising Code (Kinder- en Jeugd-reclamecode, KJC) contains no such rule. A question of principle was then posed to the Advertising Code Committee (Reclame Code Commissie, RCC). The question: can an advertising code rule be interpreted more broadly than the literal text? Advertiser Master Solution Secondment (MSS) thought not: ‘in a self-regulating industry, the parties active in that industry themselves determine precisely what can

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