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CBD-Intel’s survey of CBD sales channels in France reports on which types of shop are selling which types of CBD products, and the most widely available brands on offer
Companies which make beverages containing CBD are resorting to new technologies to get around a thorny problem.
CBD is not water soluble, meaning a fatty emulsion needs to be created in order to get the substance to mix with a liquid – but canny companies are using a process called nanemulsion, where the molecule sizes are reduced to enable the CBD to mix better with the drink.
Among a wave of drinkable CBD products released in the UK this year, one of the more controversial is Love Hemp’s CBD-infused bottled water – advertised as being spring water “infused with CBD hemp droplets”
In the Italian online space CBD is mainly sold through specialist stores. Unlike many other European markets, cannabis flowers are widely available and offer the most variation to online consumers.
British detox products supplier Equilibrium Labs is to add CBD to its Sober Up shots next year, in a move that could benefit those with foggy heads thanks to a new CBD beer also hitting shelves.
A CBD-infused version of Sober Up, which is based on a proprietary blend of herbs and extracts, should be available from early 2019.
The CBD market in Greece is growing and increasing numbers of brands and products have been launched on the market recently. The number of CBD-related Google searches also increased in the last year
In CBD-Intels latest look at France, we can see that the online market is very fragmented, with almost 60 brands and more than 700 products. Apart from CBD specialists, vape retailers and headshops have the largest range
Police are clamping down on the new wave of CBD shops in France. Products have been confiscated and some stores have even been closed down.
With interest in CBD in Germany increasing substantially, CBD-Intel examines the online market, which includes CBD specialists, head shops and grow shops, and health food and supplement stores
CBD could be an ideal product for direct selling due to the large amount of confusion over the compound, according to a US media company
Australia may become a big exporter of organic hemp products, especially to Asia, according to the president of the Australian Industrial Hemp Alliance (AIHA)
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 continuing to deny any interest at all in the market.
In out latest look at Europe, we find that in Italy and France vape shops in lower footfall areas are more likely to stock CBD products, while in the UK and France, vape shops are more likely to expand their range by just one CBD product type
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
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 in conjunction with VapExpo
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
The CBD market in Switzerland is blooming, with a great range of derived products for sale at low prices. However, vape stores are not taking the lead and CBD stores dominate the market
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 cannabis market in a recent interview with business channel Bloomberg TV. The firm is showing increased interest in how the US cannabis and CBD market » Continue Reading.
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
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
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
Hybrid THC-CBD cannabis products – also called high CBD cannabis products – are on the rise in those US states where both medical and recreational forms of cannabis are legal
CBD is slowly becoming better known and more popular, but it is still far from being mainstream in Spain, where CBD products form a new market, especially where e-cigarettes are concerned
The CBD e-liquid market in the Czech Republic is currently growing, but more slowly than some others. Our overview of the market finds CBD vaping products are mainly distributed through specialist cannabis-related online stores
The market for cannabidiol (CDB) e-liquid is hotting up in Germany. It’s an emerging industry, so stakeholders are limited and no brand dominates, but new players are moving in as public interest continues to grow
Vaping is reported to be one of the best ways to absorb CBD, a cannabinoid present in cannabis which has relaxing and pain-relieving effects but produces no psychoactive “high”. E-liquid containing CBD is already on the market
Despite some degree of legal uncertainty, a variety of CBD vaping products appeared on the French market in 2017. This report considers what they are, where they can be found, and what factors affect their pricing and availability
In this latest look at the French market, we look at the pricing and product ranges of e-liquids and hardware across the top five French e-cigarette retail websites
E-cigarette firms who already have devices on the market are manoeuvring to see how their products can serve the growing marijuana industry – and they face competition there from some well-financed start-ups.
39 U.S. states and the District of Columbia have laws that legalise and/or decriminalise marijuana use or possession to various extents. E-cig companies are well positioned to enter the emerging marijuana market because of their technical expertise and intimate knowledge of the science behind vaporisers, and several types of cannabis-compatible vaporisers, or “c-cigs”, may succeed in the U.S. market.
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