Jeanine Pirro, host of the Fox News show Justice with Judge Jeanine, has joined the board of a CBD company.
The 68-year-old former Westchester, New York district attorney and judge has joined cannabis company HeavenlyRx’s board. HeavenlyRx specializes in CBD products, which differ from the most well-known active ingredient in marijuana, THC. CBD does not cause intoxication like THC, but rather is touted for its medicinal and pain-relieving qualities.
“My interest in CBD stems from a curiosity after hearing people say how much they benefited from CBD,” Pirro told Marijuana Moment. “I am now excited to be a part of the opportunity for people to access fantastic wellness options that are both natural and physically and emotionally beneficial.
“Initially a skeptic, I now understand there are tremendous benefits outside the assembly line of traditional medical and pharmaceutical dictates,” she added.
HeavenlyRX CEO Paul Norman called Piro a “powerful advocate for the causes she believes in,” and a “champion of the people.”
Pirro appears to have contrasting views on CBD versus intoxicating forms of marijuana in general. The company she is joining explicitly separates itself from the more potent drug, which has now been legalized for medical and recreational use in a number of states.
In a 2016 Facebook post, Pirro said that, “Marijuana will succumb to public opinion, not for lack of medical proof to the contrary, but to the decline and depravity of the Moral Fiber fiber [sic] of this generation and goverment!”
She also pointed out differing opinions on medical use of marijuana versus recreational use in 2012 while responding to someone on Twitter.
@mamajaelynn medical marijuana is different than legalizing and u know it mama.
— Jeanine Pirro (@JudgeJeanine) March 31, 2012
President Trump is a big fan of Pirro’s show. Hemp, which contains little to no THC, and its derivatives were legalized under the 2018 Farm Bill, which was signed into law by the president.
