Last Updated on 19th September 2020

Charly Lowy, a baker from Brussels, has launched what many believe is the first commercial line of European cannabis bread.

At the moment, cannabis is enjoying something of a renaissance in both the health and wellness scenario. However, Lowy insists the bread is simply just a different kind of bread.

“The bread is intended, first and foremost, for people who just love bread, and different kinds of it,” Lowy said, speaking to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

“But it’s true that cannabis products are in right now.”

There have been boutique bakers from Holland in the past who have made cannabis bread. But Lowry is allegedly the very first to mass-produce it.

In Belgium, there is a legal loophole that allows Belgium businesses to sell hemp as long as it contains less than 0.2% THC. The bread that Lowy makes contains far too little THC needed to get a person high.

That didn’t stop the Belgian Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain raiding his store earlier this year. The agency claimed that there was a lack of paperwork stating the product was not intoxicating. However, since legalization, this is no longer a problem.