‘Extensive lobbying’ underway to ease restrictions around hemp-derived CBD in Canada ‘CBD is not addictive, it is not habituating and does not get you high. So why is the federal government regulating it like it’s a psychoactive drug?’ A hemp plant is pollinated in Oregon. The passage of the Farm Bill has given hemp producers in the U.S. an edge.Don Ryan/AP Photo file Vanmala Subramaniam