One of Premier Doug Ford's daughters has been promoting an illegal Cannabis product online.
Kyla Ford has been posting videos and a photo of herself on Instagram using CBD oil from Bodhi Naturals, giving her 98,000 followers a discount code to use at checkout.
Ford, a competitive body builder, gushes over the product by describing it as her favorite supplement right now.
The product, though, is illegal. It's covered under the federal Cannabis Act.
"It has to come from someone who has cultivated the plant under a federal license, either a cultivation license for cannabis or a hemp license. It has to be processed by someone who holds a federal processing license with Health Canada and then you have to look at how it's being sold," explains Cannabis lawyer Trina Fraser.
Bodhi Naturals is not listed as a federally licenced producer on Health Canada's website and it is not a licenced retailer in Ontario.
"If you are a medical patient you can buy CBD oil, you can buy high CBD strains of dried cannabis directly from a licenced producer and have it shipped to you by mail, that would be legal. But if you're not a medical patient and you are in Ontario, the only legal source would be to buy online from the Ontario Cannabis Store," Fraser says.
On its website, Bodhi Naturals sells CBD oil and capsules ranging from 20mg to 1000mg. Prices range from $62.00 to $145.00.
CBD is often used to reduce anxiety, relieve muscle pain, and treat acne.
"There is a misconception out there that because CBD products are represented as having little or no THC in them and they are not intoxicating like THC is that they're not subject to the same regulation that THC is and that's just not true," Fraser says.
In the past, Premier Doug Ford has called for businesses illegally selling cannabis to be shut down.
Ford has deleted all of her postings promoting Bodhi Naturals CBD oil.
NEWSTALK 1010 has reached out to Premier Doug Ford's office, Kyla Ford and Bodhi Naturals and haven't not heard back.