Freddie Dawson, Author at CannIntelligence

UK ASA says no to CBD web guidance on under-age use and maximum daily dose

Written by Freddie Dawson || 20th September 2024 || News analysis |

CBD company websites must follow UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) guidelines – even though they are recommendations only – as demonstrated by two new rulings from the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) ...

Would the US Supreme Court overturn the decision on the legality of THCO?

Written by Freddie Dawson || 19th September 2024 || Blogs |

The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals recently decided tetrahydrocannabinol acetate (THCO) was legal under current federal law, disregarding an interpretation by the Drug Enforcement Administration ...

IHDCs are legal under US federal law, according to appeals court case ruling

Written by Freddie Dawson || 16th September 2024 || News analysis |

A US federal circuit appeals court has affirmed the legality of “synthetically derived” hemp cannabinoids, rejecting interpretations by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoids (IHDCs) in the process ...

From US state to federal government, is Kamala Harris a cannabis friend or foe?

Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th September 2024 || News analysis |

Democratic US presidential candidate Kamala Harris has become one of the most positive major voices for cannabis liberalisation at the federal level, but critics say her prior record undermines that and leaves her untrustworthy ...

US Republican VP nominee may support cannabis regulation but not legalisation

Written by Freddie Dawson || 16th August 2024 || News analysis |

Republican nominee for vice-president JD Vance has been silent on vaping, tobacco alternatives and the Ohio cannabis legalisation debate, but some of his comments suggest he may support the regulation of recreational cannabis ...

Cannabinoid and vape brands’ joint affair sparks surprise interest from Middle East

Written by Freddie Dawson || 16th August 2024 || News analysis |

Executives were taken aback by the enthusiasm vendors showed for a nicotine vape brand in Dubai with a US West Coast theme, even though it involves a product that the UAE only recently legalised ...

US Democratic VP nominee could be supportive of pro-cannabis policies

Written by Freddie Dawson || 12th August 2024 || News analysis |

New Democratic nominee for vice president Tim Walz is unlikely to be an ally to the tobacco alternatives and vaping industries but, as governor of Minnesota, he was keen on legalising cannabis ...

Not your usual partnership between cannabinoid brand and vaping company

Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th August 2024 || News analysis |

Vaping company Ispire has signed a 30-year global licensing agreement with Hidden Hills Club, a cannabinoid operation with wider lifestyle ambitions that will lead to the creation of Hidden Hills branded nicotine vaping products ...

Another Thai about-face on cannabis could still result in narcotics listing

Written by Freddie Dawson || 5th August 2024 || News analysis |

Cannabis will no longer be added to the narcotics list in Thailand in the latest turnaround from legislators, as officials said they would prefer to regulate cannabis through the legislative process ...

As contests for US governorships ramp up, how do candidates view cannabis?

Written by Freddie Dawson || 25th July 2024 || Blogs |

Though debate about US president Joe Biden’s potential replacement dominates headlines on the November elections, down-ballot races in many states may impact the future of cannabis in the country ...

Red scare in the green game – should Chinese activity in US farming raise flags?

Written by Freddie Dawson || 27th June 2024 || Blogs |

Revelations about Chinese activities in the US agriculture sector have raised a number of issues. Evidence of increased activity by Chinese national affiliates has sparked something of a red scare among commentators ...

Still weeds to wade through as Germany passes recreational cannabis legislation

Written by Freddie Dawson || 26th February 2024 || News analysis |

Germany has successfully passed a law legalising the recreational use of cannabis, which could make it the first mainland EU member state to successfully apply a regulatory framework to the sale of recreational cannabis ...

UK ASA ruling on Supreme CBD social media posts: that’s advertising all right

Written by Freddie Dawson || 22nd February 2024 || Blogs |

If you get paid for increasing sales of a product, you’re promoting that product. That seems like a simple enough concept, yet it’s one that, according to the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), influencers and companies still struggle...

What’s in store for cannabis regulation? Looking at 2024 with cautious optimism

Written by Freddie Dawson || 10th January 2024 || News analysis |

Cannabis rather than hemp will see the primary regulatory changes in 2024, CannIntelligence predicts, with moves coming in the US, Thailand, Germany and France, among others ...

22nd Century sells its hemp/cannabis business to cut debt and operating costs

Written by Freddie Dawson || 29th November 2023 || News analysis |

US-based 22nd Century will sell its hemp/cannabis subsidiary, GVB Biopharma, to an entity affiliated with current GVB employees and will use the sale proceeds to pay off debt and further deleverage its balance sheet ...

Weaker demand for hemp and cannabis products impacts 22nd Century’s revenue

Written by Freddie Dawson || 7th November 2023 || News analysis |

22nd Century reported decreased revenues for the third quarter of 2023 and blamed demand challenges in its hemp/cannabis product distribution business, although this still represents the biggest part of its net revenue ...

Skinny Rebel without a cause? ASA rules on UK drink’s name, not CBD health claim

Written by Freddie Dawson || 21st September 2023 || Blogs |

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) does not appear to be especially concerned about the potential for mentioning the presence of CBD in a product being a health claim. The ASA recently made a ruling on Rebel Wines,...

22nd Century’s cannabinoid business accounts for two-thirds of Q2 revenue

Written by Freddie Dawson || 16th August 2023 || News analysis |

22nd Century announced a positive second-quarter result for its cannabinoid business, with the division supplying most of its quarterly revenue ...

Sustainability versus waste and pollution – it’s the green growing issue we all face

Written by Freddie Dawson || 3rd August 2023 || Blogs |

Together with climate change, sustainability, waste and environmental pollution – issues which are all inextricably interlinked – add up to arguably the big issue of our times ...

Social media giant softens slightly in its cautious approach to CBD advertising

Written by Freddie Dawson || 20th July 2023 || Blogs |

The company behind Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms has joined Twitter and Google in updating its advertising policies on CBD products ...

Is the EU really quite as strongly opposed to recreational cannabis as it appears?

Written by Freddie Dawson || 6th July 2023 || Blogs |

Anticipation of internal opposition, rather than fear of future EU resistance, may have led to Germany’s climb-down on recreational cannabis ...

Has Germany walked back its own recreational cannabis legalisation plans?

Written by Freddie Dawson || 3rd July 2023 || News analysis |

European authorities do not want to comment on specifics of Germany’s plans to legalise recreational cannabis, suggesting that Germany scaled them back of its own accord rather than because of EU instigation ...

Canopy Growth takes stock for fiscal year 2023, looks ahead to new deals and ideas

Written by Freddie Dawson || 26th June 2023 || News analysis |

Canopy Growth will stop producing its own cannabis beverages, edibles, vapes and extracts as it continues to look at ways to increase profitability. Using a third-party sourcing model for these products will allow it to free up funds...

A question of Czechs and balances – the most compelling legal saga now showing

Written by Freddie Dawson || 8th June 2023 || Blogs |

The Czech government is still knee deep in trying to create a recreational cannabis market, but it looks like tightening up enforcement on tangential areas is no longer as much of a concern ...

Another left-field throw as Czechs keep us guessing on cannabinoids policy

Written by Freddie Dawson || 18th May 2023 || Blogs |

The Czech Republic has taken another interesting U-turn, announcing then almost at once retracting a ban on CBD foods – but what might it all mean for recreational cannabis, or IHDCs? ...

Twitter policy on cannabis advertising remains obscure after latest shift

Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th May 2023 || News analysis |

Twitter has claimed to have made another “major” step forward in cannabis advertising. But again the devil is in the details, which remain vague and contradictory ...

‘We can’t make medical claims’ is a way of making a medical claim, says watchdog

Written by Freddie Dawson || 27th April 2023 || News analysis |

Referring to the fact that a CBD company cannot make medical claims can itself be construed as making a medical claim, according to the UK Advertising Standards Authority ...

UK FSA recruits and expected new rules ‘should speed up novel food assessments’

Written by Freddie Dawson || 25th April 2023 || News analysis |

New resources and potential future regulatory changes are being applied to the UK novel food approval process in the hopes of improving processing time for applications, the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) said ...

Germany’s promised bright dawn for cannabis falls short of expectations

Written by Freddie Dawson || 13th April 2023 || Blogs |

Germany’s newly presented recreational cannabis plan may be good news if you’re a German consumer sick of black-market dealings, but it offers poor fare for those on the business end ...

Relaxation beats intoxication – IHDC sales aren’t just about getting high

Written by Freddie Dawson || 15th March 2023 || News analysis |

HHC is the most popular intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoid (IHDC) in Europe, while delta-8 THC remains top in the US, according to CannIntelligence analysts ...

Trulieve ends 2022 with over $1bn in revenue, 25 new dispensaries in the US

Written by Freddie Dawson || 13th March 2023 || News analysis |

US cannabis company Trulieve surpassed $1bn in revenue last year, it announced during the release of its 2022 fourth-quarter and full-year results ...

22nd Century’s cannabinoid division helps the company to double revenue

Written by Freddie Dawson || 10th March 2023 || News analysis |

US-based 22nd Century’s cannabinoid division saw 19% quarterly revenue growth in the fourth quarter of 2022 despite a November fire disrupting operations at a California facility ...

Oklahoma voters show the path to legal recreational cannabis isn’t always easy

Written by Freddie Dawson || 8th March 2023 || Blogs |

The march to recreational cannabis legalisation in the US is by no means a straight line upwards, as the recent ballot result in Oklahoma shows ...

Court ruling frees Italian hemp farmers and manufacturers from narcotics law

Written by Freddie Dawson || 23rd February 2023 || News analysis |

The Regional Administrative Court (TAR) of Lazio has anulled an Italian government decree on officinal plants which put the use of hemp flowers and leaves under narcotics law ...

Another poll finds huge popular support for US legalisation – but who is listening?

Written by Freddie Dawson || 16th February 2023 || Blogs |

Another poll weighted to be nationally representative of US voters has shown strong support for legalising adult use of recreational cannabis – and broad backing for including social equity measures ...

Could a smart rapper help smokable hemp seriously disrupt Big Tobacco?

Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th February 2023 || Blogs |

Could the involvement of Snoop Dogg help a Californian companyt to “disrupt tobacco’s nearly $1tn industry with hemp cigarettes, smoking paper and other alternatives to nicotine tobacco”? ...

How did we do? CannIntelligence’s 2022 predictions measured against events

Written by Freddie Dawson || 18th January 2023 || Blogs |

CannIntelligence predicted that 2022 would be the year of intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoids (IHDCs) and that has proven to be the case. But’s not been plain sailing for cannabis or CBD ...

Much-needed research into SCRAs’ huge medical potential faces high barriers

Written by Freddie Dawson || 12th January 2023 || Blogs |

The recreational reputation of synthetic cannabinoids – synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists (SCRAs) – precedes them, leading to restrictions on use and even research ...

Is 2023 the year for the great leap forward on cannabis regulation?

Written by Freddie Dawson || 3rd January 2023 || News analysis |

Will 2023 be the year that some fairly major changes start to roll in for cannabis and cannabinoids? It's possible ...

A watershed year? 2022 sees cannabis on the rise, while CBD goes downhill

Written by Freddie Dawson || 30th December 2022 || News analysis |

This past year has seen a curious crossing of paths in the world of cannabis and cannabinoids, with concerns around CBD increasing even as many countries make moves towards the legalisation of cannabis ...

Hope and concern as Colorado legalises the purchasing and use of psychedelics

Written by Freddie Dawson || 8th December 2022 || News analysis |

A measure to allow the use of psychedelics in Colorado is a major step – but supporters worry it could lead to the sort of bad experience that would set back the progress of legalisation ...

Bullish GVB Biopharma bucks the US trend for falling hemp production

Written by Freddie Dawson || 10th November 2022 || Blogs |

News from 22nd Century Group provides an interesting contrast to the current US trend for falling hemp acreagres and cutbacks ...

How far will Biden and state governors go on pardons for cannabis offenders?

Written by Freddie Dawson || 3rd November 2022 || Blogs |

It looks like at least two state governors have taken up US president Joe Biden’s urging of them to back up his recent pardon of all non-violent cannabis possession offences ...

Amazon cannabinoid prohibition policy not strictly enforced on UK, US sites

Written by Freddie Dawson || 28th October 2022 || News analysis |

Amazon still seems to be laissez-faire about enforcement of ingestible hemp-derived cannabinoid products that appear on its site – and in particular those containing intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoids (IHDCs) ...

UK standards authority challenges CBD product marketing disguised as content

Written by Freddie Dawson || 28th October 2022 || News analysis |

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has taken action on CBD product marketing, targeting a series of advertorials produced by Consumer Logic Research specifically promoting two brands ...

What is attracting the American right to put cash and effort behind psychedelics?

Written by Freddie Dawson || 19th October 2022 || Blogs |

It is not only cannabis that is attracting what might be thought unexpected investment and support from traditionally conservative, right-wing supporters and lobbyists in the US ...

US president Biden pardons federal cannabis offences, looks into scheduling

Written by Freddie Dawson || 10th October 2022 || News analysis |

US president Joe Biden has pledged to review how cannabis is scheduled under US law and will pardon all prior federal offences of simple cannabis possession at a fortuitous time ...

Opposite sides attract, as Navajo oppose any bid to decriminalise use of peyote

Written by Freddie Dawson || 22nd September 2022 || Blogs |

Drug legalisation as an issue truly does bring together some strange bedfellows – like the Navajo Nation and drug prohibitionists ...

Coming together over cannabis: is support becoming a bipartisan issue?

Written by Freddie Dawson || 8th September 2022 || Blogs , News analysis |

Once mainly the purview of fringe leftists, support for cannabis continues to become more of a bipartisan issue ...

Trouble in Lima – hemp bill’s chances tied up in Peru’s congressional crisis

Written by Freddie Dawson || 10th August 2022 || Blogs , News analysis |

New legislation has been put forward in Peru to establish a framework for the production and commercialisation of hemp – but what are its chances of passing in a period of political turmoil? ...

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