With the ousting of attorney general Jeff Sessions from the Trump administration, members of the US cannabis industry have perked up, hoping the anti-cannabis agenda will exit with him ...
Investment in Europe continues as companies in the medical cannabis sector anticipate further loosening of regulations. In the pure-CBD sector, two American firms are eyeing expansion ...
The number of cannabidiol-based pharmaceutical products in the pipeline continues to grow, with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently granting yet another orphan drug designation for CBD ...
The UK’s Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) has told CBD-Intel that even a product not normally considered a medicine, such as a pet food or livestock feed, will be treated as a pharmaceutical if it contains...
American CBD company CV Sciences announces sales of $13.6m in the third quarter of 2018 and $34m over the first nine months of the year while Terra Tech reveals merger ...
Two North American companies have announced collaborations with established drug delivery firms to produce and expand distribution for oral CBD strips – soluble strips that dissolve in the mouth ...
Voters in Michigan have voted to legalise the recreational use of cannabis, while those in North Dakota rejected it. In Utah and Missouri medical cannabis use was approved on the day the US turned out...
Colorado-based Mile High Labs has announced $35m in Series A funding from institutional and private equity investors to expand its CBD production capacity ...
Australia may become a big exporter of organic hemp products, especially to Asia, according to the president of the Australian Industrial Hemp Alliance (AIHA) ...
Many cannabis strains marketed as distinct are in fact chemically much the same, but there may also be non-obvious differences and their effects on humans should not be judged purely on THC and CBD content,...
Medical cannabis products are now legal in the UK – in very limited circumstances. This could include products without marketing authorisation, if approved by a registered specialist in certain conditions ...
A founder of the UK Cannabis Trades Association (CTA) has resigned, alleging the industry body has been misleading companies about its role in regulation ...
CBD and other legal cannabis products appear to be dividing the tobacco industry.
Around half of the major Western tobacco companies have publicly announced an interest in the cannabis and cannabis-product spheres with the other half...
Many British CBD companies are finding their voice and their own way to make the regulations that ban them from making medical claims work for them and the consumer ...
Comments invited by the FDA on the potential abuse and medical usefulness of CBD and other cannabis-derived substances will be submitted to the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
The Spanish Observatory of Medicinal Cannabis has called on the government to stop seizures of CBD oil in Spain, and demanded clear regulation of cannabis-based products ...
A major CBD show is to be held in Las Vegas next month in what is billed as “an epic collaboration of two industries”. The CBD.io event will take place on 9th and 10th November...
Prospects for CBD in Brazil depend hugely on the outcome of the forthcoming presidential election, in which the far right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro has emerged as a very strong favourite ...
CBD products could be prescribed to British patients from as early as next month after the UK government announced plans to lift restrictions on the medical use of cannabis
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Though cannabis was legalised for medical use earlier this year, the legal status of CBD in Malta remains uncertain – but shops are ignoring the law that says it should be available only on prescription...
A recent judgement by the Constitutional Court of South Africa which legalised the personal use of cannabis in private may not have a big impact on the CBD market in the country ...
A deadline for the federal legislature to pass a bill expected to remove hemp and low-THC cannabis from the federal list of narcotics lapsed on 30th September, leaving US hemp farmers in regulatory uncertainty...
Canadian company Emerald Health Therapeutics is set to sign a deal to use an extraction facility capable of processing 1000 tonnes of biomass to produce 600m softgel CBD capsules a year ...
Intrexon, an American biotech company listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange, has announced a development in its microbial platform capable of producing cannabinoids for medical use ...
A Canadian company has come under regulatory scrutiny and lost a major business deal after it attempted to recruit new medical cannabis users at a dance club party using scantily clad women in nurses’ uniforms...
Tobacco giant Imperial Brands is looking to new markets such as cannabis and CBD in the near future. “At the moment we are looking to understand this space”, said Alison Cooper, CEO of Imperial Brands, about the...
CBD-based medical treatments for animals will need government approval before being sold in the UK, after the country’s Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) decided they fall under the definition of veterinary medicines ...
Cannabis growers in Massachusetts have indicated they may sue the state’s Cannabis Control Commission over a dispute that appears to have delayed the start of legal sales there ...
Namaste Technologies, the company behind Canadian online cannabis sales platform CannMart, is planning an advance into Europe, taking CBD products into the UK market as food supplements ...
Australian company MGC Pharmaceuticals has signed a deal to distribute cannabis-based pharmaceutical products throughout Europe and to produce and cultivate medical cannabis in Malta ...
Rare cannabinoids that cannot practically be extracted from hemp will instead be manufactured by specially-created micro-organisms in a partnership between a Canadian and a US company ...
CBD products, which the shop-owner and the suppliers say were entirely legal, have been seized by police from a vape shop in Plymouth in the southwest of England ...
The town of Nelas in north central Portugal is to be the site of a new CBD oil factory producing medicinal products extracted from cannabis sativa for export to America and within Europe ...
Cannabis and nicotine together have notably different effects on the brain than either of them taken on their own. That’s the conclusion of US researchers who noted that cannabis is commonly consumed in conjunction with...
Although all three states have laws permitting CBD sales, retailers in Ohio, Iowa and Alabama have been told they are breaking the law and ordered to stop ...
CBD should not be scheduled within international drug control conventions, according to the latest meeting of the World Health Organization’s Expert Committee on Drug Dependence ...
A Polish CBD company has been acquired by a publicly traded Canadian medicinal cannabis company in a cash-and-shares deal worth more than $15m USD plus future incentives ...
A new series of animal studies purports to show that CBD is non-addictive – potentially clearing the way for further research into the mechanisms behind its possible beneficial qualities ...
Crossover between vapourisers and e-cigarettes has been found to be quite low and companies dedicated to both vapourisers and e-cigarettes are rare ...
Judicial bodies in France have issued statements clarifying the national legal framework for products containing cannabidiol (CBD) and asked local enforcement authorities to ensure compliance with current legislation ...
While queues on Paris pavements show there is high demand for CBD products, those attempting to meet that demand risk severe repercussions from French authorities caught out by the rise of a not-yet-regulated market ...
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