Written by Barnaby Page || 23rd December 2020 || News analysis |
Claims that CBD could help shrink tumours were among those censured by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in its latest round of warning letters to the industry ...
Written by Barnaby Page || 3rd February 2020 || News analysis |
As the UK exits Europe and enters its 11-month period of transition, what does Brexit actually mean for cross-Channel relationships, and for the CBD industry in particular? ...
Written by Barnaby Page || 16th December 2019 || News analysis |
Boris Johnson’s landslide victory in the British general election means Brexit will almost certainly take place early in 2020. But will the strenthening of the Conservative grip on power have any direct impact on CBD? ...
Written by Barnaby Page || 26th November 2019 || News analysis |
Scrutiny of the CBD market appears to be growing at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which this week reprimanded a further 15 companies for selling CBD products as drugs and also updated its advice to consumers...
Written by Barnaby Page || 1st April 2019 || News analysis |
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...
Written by Barnaby Page || 14th March 2019 || News analysis |
Obscure cannabinoids and even completely new ones could be produced synthetically from yeast, along with THC and CBD, according to scientists at the University of California in Berkeley ...
Written by Barnaby Page || 19th February 2019 || News analysis |
CBD shows promise for treating some medical conditions but the potential for interactions with other drugs is a cause for concern, as is poor quality control, according to a recent review of science in the field ...
Written by Barnaby Page || 18th February 2019 || News analysis |
CBD is likely to be removed from the scope of the most significant international treaty on drug control, following a favourable report by the World Health Organization (WHO), which also recommends downgrading cannabis ...
Written by Barnaby Page || 17th January 2019 || News analysis |
Researchers in Portugal have developed an algorithm to identify characteristics that suggest the nations most likely to legalise recreational cannabis ...
Written by Barnaby Page || 23rd December 2018 || News analysis |
Removing hemp from the federal narcotics Schedule 1 list does not mean that all CBD products are now permitted, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned ...
Written by Barnaby Page || 20th December 2018 || News analysis |
The presence of CBD could render cannabis useless as a treatment for glaucoma, new research warns. Long-term use of the substance may even worsen one of the main risk factors for the eye disease ...
Written by Barnaby Page || 30th November 2018 || News analysis |
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...
Written by Barnaby Page || 14th November 2018 || News analysis |
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 ...
Written by Barnaby Page || 14th November 2018 || News analysis |
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 CBD ...
Written by Barnaby Page || 1st November 2018 || News analysis |
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, scientists say ...
Written by Barnaby Page || 26th September 2018 || News analysis |
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 ...
Written by Barnaby Page || 12th September 2018 || News analysis |
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 ...
Cannabidiol (CBD) could be helpful in smoking cessation, but the area is little researched and more work is required, says a London scientist who will soon publish a paper on the topic ...