Written by Freddie Dawson || 19th November 2024 || News analysis |
Not a single US state governorship flipped parties during the elections held on 5th November despite strong gains in the Senate for the Republican party, as well as the party’s victory in the presidential election ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 13th November 2024 || News analysis |
Even the most general of positive statements can be construed as a health claim, according to the latest CBD ruling from the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 20th September 2024 || News analysis |
CBD company websites must follow UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) guidelines – even though they are recommendations only – as demonstrated by two new rulings from the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) ...
The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals recently decided tetrahydrocannabinol acetate (THCO) was legal under current federal law, disregarding an interpretation by the Drug Enforcement Administration ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 16th September 2024 || News analysis |
A US federal circuit appeals court has affirmed the legality of “synthetically derived” hemp cannabinoids, rejecting interpretations by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoids (IHDCs) in the process ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th September 2024 || News analysis |
Democratic US presidential candidate Kamala Harris has become one of the most positive major voices for cannabis liberalisation at the federal level, but critics say her prior record undermines that and leaves her untrustworthy ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 16th August 2024 || News analysis |
Republican nominee for vice-president JD Vance has been silent on vaping, tobacco alternatives and the Ohio cannabis legalisation debate, but some of his comments suggest he may support the regulation of recreational cannabis ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 16th August 2024 || News analysis |
Executives were taken aback by the enthusiasm vendors showed for a nicotine vape brand in Dubai with a US West Coast theme, even though it involves a product that the UAE only recently legalised ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 12th August 2024 || News analysis |
New Democratic nominee for vice president Tim Walz is unlikely to be an ally to the tobacco alternatives and vaping industries but, as governor of Minnesota, he was keen on legalising cannabis ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th August 2024 || News analysis |
Vaping company Ispire has signed a 30-year global licensing agreement with Hidden Hills Club, a cannabinoid operation with wider lifestyle ambitions that will lead to the creation of Hidden Hills branded nicotine vaping products ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 5th August 2024 || News analysis |
Cannabis will no longer be added to the narcotics list in Thailand in the latest turnaround from legislators, as officials said they would prefer to regulate cannabis through the legislative process ...
Though debate about US president Joe Biden’s potential replacement dominates headlines on the November elections, down-ballot races in many states may impact the future of cannabis in the country ...
Revelations about Chinese activities in the US agriculture sector have raised a number of issues. Evidence of increased activity by Chinese national affiliates has sparked something of a red scare among commentators ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 26th February 2024 || News analysis |
Germany has successfully passed a law legalising the recreational use of cannabis, which could make it the first mainland EU member state to successfully apply a regulatory framework to the sale of recreational cannabis ...
If you get paid for increasing sales of a product, you’re promoting that product. That seems like a simple enough concept, yet it’s one that, according to the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), influencers and companies still struggle...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 10th January 2024 || News analysis |
Cannabis rather than hemp will see the primary regulatory changes in 2024, CannIntelligence predicts, with moves coming in the US, Thailand, Germany and France, among others ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 29th November 2023 || News analysis |
US-based 22nd Century will sell its hemp/cannabis subsidiary, GVB Biopharma, to an entity affiliated with current GVB employees and will use the sale proceeds to pay off debt and further deleverage its balance sheet ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 7th November 2023 || News analysis |
22nd Century reported decreased revenues for the third quarter of 2023 and blamed demand challenges in its hemp/cannabis product distribution business, although this still represents the biggest part of its net revenue ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 21st September 2023 || Blogs |
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) does not appear to be especially concerned about the potential for mentioning the presence of CBD in a product being a health claim. The ASA recently made a ruling on Rebel Wines,...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 3rd August 2023 || Blogs |
Together with climate change, sustainability, waste and environmental pollution – issues which are all inextricably interlinked – add up to arguably the big issue of our times ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 20th July 2023 || Blogs |
The company behind Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms has joined Twitter and Google in updating its advertising policies on CBD products ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 3rd July 2023 || News analysis |
European authorities do not want to comment on specifics of Germany’s plans to legalise recreational cannabis, suggesting that Germany scaled them back of its own accord rather than because of EU instigation ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 26th June 2023 || News analysis |
Canopy Growth will stop producing its own cannabis beverages, edibles, vapes and extracts as it continues to look at ways to increase profitability. Using a third-party sourcing model for these products will allow it to free up funds...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 8th June 2023 || Blogs |
The Czech government is still knee deep in trying to create a recreational cannabis market, but it looks like tightening up enforcement on tangential areas is no longer as much of a concern ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 18th May 2023 || Blogs |
The Czech Republic has taken another interesting U-turn, announcing then almost at once retracting a ban on CBD foods – but what might it all mean for recreational cannabis, or IHDCs? ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th May 2023 || News analysis |
Twitter has claimed to have made another “major” step forward in cannabis advertising. But again the devil is in the details, which remain vague and contradictory ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 27th April 2023 || News analysis |
Referring to the fact that a CBD company cannot make medical claims can itself be construed as making a medical claim, according to the UK Advertising Standards Authority ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 25th April 2023 || News analysis |
New resources and potential future regulatory changes are being applied to the UK novel food approval process in the hopes of improving processing time for applications, the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) said ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 13th April 2023 || Blogs |
Germany’s newly presented recreational cannabis plan may be good news if you’re a German consumer sick of black-market dealings, but it offers poor fare for those on the business end ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 15th March 2023 || News analysis |
HHC is the most popular intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoid (IHDC) in Europe, while delta-8 THC remains top in the US, according to CannIntelligence analysts ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 10th March 2023 || News analysis |
US-based 22nd Century’s cannabinoid division saw 19% quarterly revenue growth in the fourth quarter of 2022 despite a November fire disrupting operations at a California facility ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 23rd February 2023 || News analysis |
The Regional Administrative Court (TAR) of Lazio has anulled an Italian government decree on officinal plants which put the use of hemp flowers and leaves under narcotics law ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 16th February 2023 || Blogs |
Another poll weighted to be nationally representative of US voters has shown strong support for legalising adult use of recreational cannabis – and broad backing for including social equity measures ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th February 2023 || Blogs |
Could the involvement of Snoop Dogg help a Californian companyt to “disrupt tobacco’s nearly $1tn industry with hemp cigarettes, smoking paper and other alternatives to nicotine tobacco”? ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 18th January 2023 || Blogs |
CannIntelligence predicted that 2022 would be the year of intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoids (IHDCs) and that has proven to be the case. But’s not been plain sailing for cannabis or CBD
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Written by Freddie Dawson || 12th January 2023 || Blogs |
The recreational reputation of synthetic cannabinoids – synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists (SCRAs) – precedes them, leading to restrictions on use and even research ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 30th December 2022 || News analysis |
This past year has seen a curious crossing of paths in the world of cannabis and cannabinoids, with concerns around CBD increasing even as many countries make moves towards the legalisation of cannabis ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 8th December 2022 || News analysis |
A measure to allow the use of psychedelics in Colorado is a major step – but supporters worry it could lead to the sort of bad experience that would set back the progress of legalisation ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 3rd November 2022 || Blogs |
It looks like at least two state governors have taken up US president Joe Biden’s urging of them to back up his recent pardon of all non-violent cannabis possession offences ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 28th October 2022 || News analysis |
Amazon still seems to be laissez-faire about enforcement of ingestible hemp-derived cannabinoid products that appear on its site – and in particular those containing intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoids (IHDCs) ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 28th October 2022 || News analysis |
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has taken action on CBD product marketing, targeting a series of advertorials produced by Consumer Logic Research specifically promoting two brands ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 19th October 2022 || Blogs |
It is not only cannabis that is attracting what might be thought unexpected investment and support from traditionally conservative, right-wing supporters and lobbyists in the US ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 10th October 2022 || News analysis |
US president Joe Biden has pledged to review how cannabis is scheduled under US law and will pardon all prior federal offences of simple cannabis possession at a fortuitous time ...