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With federal elections due in September, Germany’s Free Democratic Party (FDP) has called on the government to draft a law permitting the controlled distribution of cannabis for adult use
This week’s regulatory news in brief includes updates from Belgium, Latvia Portugal, UK, US, Argentina, Armenia, Australia and Brazil
South Africa releases the National Cannabis Master Plan, which will not only boost and uplift the southern Africa cannabis industry, but will set a regional precedent for the growth of a legal cannabis market in the area
CBD will become legal for the first time in Slovakia on 1st May 2021. This report offers a detailed overview of the regulatory framework in the country for hemp, CBD and medical and recreational cannabis
This week’s regulatory news in brief includes updates from Germany, Latvia Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, UK, Canada, US, China, Lesotho and Malawi
The long-anticipated UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) initial list of products supported by a validated CBD novel food application has been released
This week’s regulatory news in brief includes updates from France, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine and the US
Mexico’s Senate is poised to request extra time to approve legislation that would legalise cannabis in the country, prolonging debate over the highly anticipated bill until September
Suggestions that a Chinese ban on the use of CBD in cosmetics that would essentially shut down the domestic CBD market, blocking imports and cross-border online sales, appear to be premature
It’s been a long process getting there, but the last US state to legalise industrial hemp finally has a bill headed to the governor’s desk and farmers poised to plant the crop
Cultivation of hemp with less than 0.2% THC is legal in Denmark. This report provides an overview of the country’s regulatory framework for CBD, hemp and cannabis
This week’s regulatory news in brief includes updates from Czech Republic, Belgium, the UK, Mexico and the US
States continue to update their hemp production plans to match US Department of Agriculture (USDA) final rule requirements, with Michigan being one of the latest
This report offers an overview of the current regulatory framework in place for hemp, CBD and cannabis in Sweden
This report provides an overview of the regulatory regime for CBD, hemp and cannabis in Taiwan
Four new letters sent by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the month of April mark a bit of a change in approach. Two of them were fairly standard warnings about health claim marketing potentially in violation of the Food Drug & Cosmetics (FD&C) Act. But the other two represented something different. For one, they […]
Italy’s Ministry of Health and the Italian Medicine Agency (AIFA) have begun authorising Italian companies to manufacture hemp-derived CBD extracts for pharmaceutical purposes
The future regulation, and interpretation of existing rules, of cannabis in all its forms is a recurring subject in France. This report provides an overview of the current regulatory framework
Germany’s highest civil and criminal court has ruled that low-THC industrial hemp flowers may be considered a narcotic – but that they can be legally sold to German consumers if there is no risk of intoxication
This week’s regulatory news in brief includes updates from the Cyprus. Czech Republic, the EU, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Malta, Switzerland, the US, and Argentina
The FSA told CBD-Intel during a recent conference that – unsurprisingly – no actions would be taken until after the list of validated/administratively checked pending validation applications had been published. Thus far no date for the publication of the list has been put forward, but the speculation is that it will now more than likely be […]
This report covers the current regulatory regime for hemp, CBD and cannabis in South Africa, including the regimes for medical and recreational cannabis
An Oregon senator believes he has found a solution to the cannabis banking crisis in the state, and perhaps set a useful standard for others across the US
This report addresses the reasons why CBD and cannabis-related businesses in the US have trouble obtaining banking and payment processing services, what they can do, and what might be done to address the problem
This week’s regulatory news in brief includes updates from the EU, France, Germany, the UK, the US, China and Thailand
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has ruffled a few feathers by changing its criteria for allowing products to stay on the market. Instead of requiring a validated novel food submission, it now only requires a submission that has been administratively checked (essentially scanned over to make sure all required bits are present) – under […]
Podcasts editor Jon Bruford is joined by Anthony Traurig, CBD-Intel legal analyst and US specialist, to discuss the legal and regulatory concerns that hang over cannabis in the US and Canada and the economic impact of Covid-19
This week’s regulatory news in brief includes updates from Belgium, France, Italy, Slovakia, the UK, Canada, the US and South Africa
This report offers an overview of the current regulations in place for CBD and cannabis in Poland, including all aspects from cultivation and processing, to finished products, medical and recreational cannabis
Brazil still faces a serious attitude problem when it comes to advancing regulations for hemp and CBD, according to the leaders of two recently launched industry associations in the country
This week’s regulatory news in brief includes updates from Czech Republic, France, Greece, Switzerland, Canada, the UK, Mexico, the US, Costa Rica, China, Morocco and Taiwan
There’s been some worry that the eventual list of brands with a novel food application validated by the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) will reveal commercially sensitive information such as which brands are currently contracted to which ingredient or white-label goods suppliers. But the FSA has not indicated that such information would be included in […]
Crisis-hit Armenia intends to legalise and regulate the production of hemp as a part of a package of economic measures to alleviate issues arising from the military conflict with Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region
CBD-Intel podcasts editor Jon Bruford is joined by the founder and principal of Kight Law Office, Rod Kight, a specialist in cannabis business law in the US
Pakistan is set to embark on a path to the legal production of hemp and hemp-derived products following the approval last September of hemp farming and processing under government control
This week’s regulatory news in brief includes updates from Germany, France, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Spain, Mexico, the US, Brazil and Zambia
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) is moving forward at pace with at least one CBD novel food application having been validated
The FSA has confirmed to CBD-Intel that it has already validated at least one application with an updated list to be published in April. This represents a significantly quicker turnaround than many anticipated, though Pureis did submit its application as soon as possible – telling CBD-Intel that it filed it one minute after midnight on […]
Tough Japanese laws on the import of CBD products and the cultivation of industrial hemp are becoming more challenging for the industry – and even stricter regulations may be on the way
This report examines the legal requirements and practical considerations when importing to and exporting from the largest CBD market in the world – the US
This week’s regulatory news in brief includes updates from Germany, Iceland, Norway, the UK, the US, Colombia, Ghana, Japan, Morocco, Pakistan and Thailand
There is a chance that enforcement priorities could change under new appointments to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) by the Biden administration. Two commissioners – one of which is staying on to work as part of the Republican minority of the five-commissioner panel in charge of the FTC, and the other of which appears to have […]
The legalisation of recreational cannabis in South Dakota is in doubt, amidst accusations of political interference after a judge appointed by the state governor ruled the voter-approved amendment unconstitutional
Jon Bruford, CBD-Intel’s podcasts editor, is joined by the CEO & co-founder of the Greenheart CBD Ltd, Mark Canavan, an Irish-owned company that produces and sells CBD oil made from Irish-grown hemp
This week’s regulatory news in brief includes updates from Belgium, the EU, the UK the US and Thailand
The Home Office has not changed licensing requirements for importers of CBD into the UK. The minister for policing, Christopher “Kit” Malthouse, has requested an updated recommendation from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) on acceptable THC levels in CBD consumer products. The ACMD has not yet responded and the previous limit of […]
Our host for today’s podcast is Jon Bruford, a copy editor at CBD-Intel, who will be joined by CBD-Intel junior legal analyst Elsa Carrasco, who discusses the current regulatory framework in place for CBD and cannabis in the Philippines. Elsa presents a clear idea of the legal framework of the country, the requirements to operate […]
The broad legal framework for hemp, CBD and medical cannabis in the Netherlands will remain unchanged for now due to upcoming parliamentary elections. This report covers the current rules for cannabis and CBD
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has stated that it is in contact with other similar agencies such as the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the UK, but only specified that it would not treat applications that had been approved in other jurisdictions any differently during its own assessment process. But beyond that, it has not stated […]
This week’s regulatory news in brief includes updates from Belgium, France, Slovakia, the US, Armenia, Brazil and Thailand
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