CBD has taken off in US retail, with a number of major chains – including some unexpected ones – taking opportunities to cash in on the surging popularity of CBD products ...
Elavon Inc, a subsidiary of US Bank that processes card transactions, will cancel payment services for CBD businesses this week, documents seen by CBD-Intel reveal ...
Germany is tightening controls on CBD sales in a move that may lead to a ban on hemp extracts in Europe’s largest market and which has led some chain stores to remove products from shelves...
Police have raided what is billed as the UK’s first cannabis restaurant, which features CBD products on its menu, seizing “a significant quantity of herbal cannabis” ...
A new partnership expands Israel’s global cannabis ties and gives a Chinese investor access to an entire portfolio of cannabis and hemp-related start-ups ...
Regulations on the sale of smokable CBD flower products in Belgium have been clarified. But taxing the products like tobacco could send users to the black market, a campaign group has warned ...
A decision on legalising recreational cannabis in New Zealand will go to a referendum to be held next year, but the outcome is not likely to affect the regulatory status of CBD ...
Participants at the Paris 420 Festival, organised by NORML France (National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws), were keen to raise public awareness of hemp’s various properties ...
The US Department of Veterans Affairs has opposed three CBD-related bills in Congress, leading some to wonder if the agency is looking to punish veterans who admit using medical cannabis ...
Women are emerging as key players in the movement to promote medical CBD: starting their own businesses, campaigning for legalisation and creating networks for future empowerment ...
The US FDA is to hold a public hearing on 31st May on the safety of products containing cannabis or cannabis-derived compounds ― and stakeholders will be looking for a dividing line ...
Could CBD soon be legally sold as a dietary supplement or food in the US? The answer depends on how quickly the federal regulatory framework on cannabis in general and CBD in particular can be...
Ireland’s Department of Health still won’t commit to allowing farmers to grow cannabis for medical use, two years after the health minister announced a medical cannabis access programme ...
A UK member of parliament has accused the president of a child healthcare organisation of lying to the parliamentary health and social care committee and dismissing the concerns of families ...
Social media influencers are the marketing medium of the moment, and the CBD market is especially well suited to cashing in on the fame and popularity of this new form of advertising ...
As a potential CBD and cannabis market emerges in Peru, players from across the globe are seeing a valuable opportunity for investing in the country ...
Mexico is well on its way to fully legalising cannabis and its derivative products, but the new government may impose stricter regulation than that left by the previous regime ...
Europe desperately needs harmonised legislation on medical cannabis – but it could take five years, and Big Pharma must not be allowed to set the agenda, delegates at a conference in Brussels heard ...
US attorney general William Barr has said the current patchwork regulatory situation for CBD in the country is “intolerable” and given qualified support to an act which would allow states to decide their own...
CBD’s association with cannabis, on one level part of its marketing strength, can also be a big barrier to its acceptance. The major social networks all have as yet a rather ambiguous attitude ...
Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 11th April 2019
The Spanish Agency for Consumption, Food Safety and Nutrition (AECOSAN) has issued a notice on hemp and cannabinoid use in foods, clarifying its position on European novel food regulations ...
CBD’s entry in the European Commission’s database of cosmetics ingredients has been expanded to differentiate it from generic cannabis and by-products. The move offers more, but not total, clarity ...
Several Swedish companies offering dietary supplements with CBD oil produced from industrial hemp have either stopped selling the products or significantly toned down promises of its health benefits ...
Just two out of around 80 people prescribed medical cannabis in the UK have received products containing THC, with the rest getting CBD, the British parliament has heard ...
Proposed new federal legislation in the US could finally help CBD businesses gain easier access to banking, a problem that has bedevilled legal cannabis-related industries since their...
Use of the federal mail to deliver CBD products has remained a vexed question for companies in the US since the passing of the 2018 Farm Bill. Now the US Postal Service has shone some...
A high-level working group will explore legal pathways to market for certain CBD products, according to the US FDA – which also revealed it had sent warning letters to three companies it accused of “unfounded...
Ohio is moving a step nearer following its neighbour Michigan in distinguishing hemp-derived CBD products from state cannabis regulations, while Texas is to remove hemp from its list of controlled substances ...
UK member of parliament Steve Brine, a supporter of medical cannabis, has resigned as under-secretary of state for public health over Brexit-related issues ...
The European Parliament’s agriculture committee has approved proposals to put forward an amendment to the Common Agriculture Policy allowing hemp farmers to grow varieties with as much as 0.3% THC ...
CBD-infused auto fuel and an inhalable “cannabidiol homologue” are among the latest products launched by companies from outside the CBD sector keen to leverage its paradigm...
The Mexican Federal Commission for the Protection Against Sanitary Risk (COFEPRIS) has changed its mind over the regulatory framework established for cannabis products in late 2018 ...
CBD products appears to be entering the mainstream of US retail. One of the largest retail pharmacy chains in the US, CVS is already selling a range of products in at least eight US states...
The Philippines moved one step closer to legalising cannabis for medical use when a bill was approved on its final reading, but its progress to law could be scuppered by opposition from president Rodrigo...
The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) promises trials of medical cannabis after a senior consultant told a parliamentary committee of his worries about it being widely prescribed ...
Inconsistent quality of products purchased online, and confusion over cannabis itself, could be putting patients at risk, a group of UK MPs were told during presentations on medical cannabis and related issues ...
Politicians in Israel are rarely united on any single issue, but as the much contended Israeli election draws nearer, members from across the political spectrum support the full legalisation of recreational cannabis ...
Isodiol International, a large-scale CBD distributor based in Vancouver, Canada, has announced that it has acquired the brand and portfolio of California-based CBD Naturals ...
Lawyers for the UK Cannabis Trades Association (CTA) have confirmed to CBD-Intel that they have not been instructed to sue the EU over novel food guidance for cannabinoids including CBD – contrary to reports ...
A new hemp extraction facility, said to be the largest in Europe, has opened in the Sicilian province of Ragusa for the production of CBD-containing products such as oils, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals ...
An appeal is planned against a Swiss court’s decision that low-THC cannabis flowers should continue to be taxed at the same 25% rate as fine-cut tobacco – a decision that came as no surprise to...