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Belgian bakery chain to start selling cannabis bread: report
The chain has 54 bakeries and restaurants including in the UK.
Belgian bakery and restaurant chain Le Pain Quotidien will start selling cannabis bread in all of its 54 bakeries and restaurants across Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and the UK, a report by The Brussels Times said.
Le Pain Quotidien calls the bread ‘the most ecological bread ever' and consists of a mix of peeled and unpeeled cannabis seeds, flour from ground cannabis seeds, the bakery’s own sourdough and, flour.
In a statement to the press, CEO Annick Van Overstraeten said that cannabis has a bad name because of marijuana and that this bread has nothing to do with that.
According to a report, the bread has low THC content in the seeds. Despite that, it has been legally challenging to make and sell cannabis bread in Belgium. The chain had to undergo an official ‘derogation’ from Belgium's Federal Public Health Service for every production using cannabis seeds until the end of last year, based on a lab test.
The bread was developed by Belgian founder Alain Coumont, in collaboration with Canbe Farm from the Walloon Brabant province.
