The right-wing coalition parties which look most likely to triumph in Italy’s coming elections take a uniformly hard line on drug policy – which could be bad news for the cannabinoids industry ...
More than two dozen officers carried out a surprise raid on a farm in Dithmarschen on 30th August as part of “an investigation into the joint illegal trade of large quantities of narcotics”, according to the...
A new conceptual inhaler designed around the idea of controlled microdosing could eventually lead to a product capable of administering precise amounts of active ingredients such as CBD, nicotine or even psychedelics ...
A new online trading platform will soon facilitate B2B CBD transactions within the EU, filling a gap the company behind it says has so far remained almost unbridged ...
Members of the US House of Representatives have approved a bill to expand and streamline research into CBD and cannabis. The bill is now heading for the Senate and is expected to reach president Joe...
Germany, Luxembourg and Malta have taken the first step towards working together on the legalisation and regulation of recreational cannabis, leading a wave of potential reform across the EU ...
The Channel Island of Jersey is continuing to build its cannabis industry, awarding its fifth cultivation licence to a startup amid calls from officials for stricter regulation ...
A Swiss CBD company has questioned the approach of European authorities in demanding further data in order to advance novel food applications, describing it as an issue that might signal the end of hemp-extracted cannabinoids...
Patients in Spain will soon be able to access cannabis in pharmacies with a medical prescription as the government is about to introduce new legislation ...
Amazon is expanding its UK CBD pilot, inviting firms that comply with UK novel food regulations onto its platform – clear evidence that support for CBD continues to become increasingly mainstream ...
Biotechnology firm Awakn Life Sciences has secured UK government funding to accelerate the route to the UK and US markets for its proprietary ketamine-assisted therapy, which is designed to treat alcohol use disorder ...
The British Standards Institution (BSI) has developed a fast-track informal standard, PAS 13956, to address quality, performance and safety issues of CBD vape products ...
Israeli cannabis firm InterCure is collaborating with US brand Cookies to launch Europe’s first flagship Cookies store in Vienna; meanwhile, Panaxia Labs exports to Germany from Malta ...
The European Food Safety Authority (Efsa) may not be sure about CBD but the EU Directorate-general for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG-Agri) is fully behind hemp as a crop with potential ...
Companies are facing technical and marketing pros and cons as they increasingly turn to cold-press CBD extraction as a way around novel food market limitations in the UK and Ireland ...
It looks like there will be no easy or quick solutions to addressing the data gaps the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) requires to reach a conclusion on the safety of CBD as an ingestible...
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published its final public list of CBD products that can be marketed in England and Wales – and again it's twice as long as it was ...
UK-based medical cannabis company Kanabo will look to focus on “last mile assets” such as dispensing and prescribing as it responds to changing market conditions ...
The European Food Safety Authority wants more safety data before it approves CBD products as novel food. This is what it wants to know, and why, along with a summary of the science on each...
North American cannabis firms are attempting to muscle in on the German medical cannabis scene – possibly in an attempt to establish themselves in the market before a recreational regime is established ...
Germany should plan ahead to avoid problems which have plagued governments that have already legalised recreational cannabis on top of medical cannabis ...
CBD companies say they do not know when or even how they will be able to provide the missing data that has caused the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to pause the clock on assessing...
A hold has been placed on European novel food assessment after the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said it was unable to proceed due to identified knowledge gaps in safety data ...
The US is in danger of being left behind the burgeoning global cannabis market because of a lack of political will to commit to any form of federal cannabis reform ...
Strangely, Brexit and then the Covid-19 pandemic have combined to create ideal conditions for the UK to potentially become a leader in psychedelics research ...
The German government has performed an abrupt U-turn on recreational cannabis legislation just three months after the new coalition government said such plans were not among its priorities for this year ...
It’s been two years since the deadline for CBD companies to apply for the Food Standards Agency (FSA) novel foods authorisation, yet none have been authorised and few have been validated ...
The need to improve sleep is one of the main reasons why US consumers buy CBD, according to CBD-Intel’s latest market research; however, a recent report from a CBD watchdog claims that 60% of the...
The EU has granted official recognition to a hemp variety rich in cannabigerol (CBG) by including a new cannabinoid strain in its database of registered plant varieties ...
Clinical trials are investigating how CBD can improve menstrual health and treat conditions such as premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and perhaps even endometriosis ...
Written by Sergi Riudalbàs Clemente | 9th May 2022
A non-paper is being drafted by European authorities to examine how to change rules to formally permit the use of CBD in cosmetics in Europe following the Courts of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)...
Basel will start allowing the sale of recreational cannabis through local pharmacies at the end of the summer as the first Swiss city to win the approval of health authorities for the pilot project ...
The recent update to the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA)’s list of CBD products linked to validated novel food applications has created further issues and questions in the industry – such as, what will actually...
The list of products linked to novel food applications in the UK has nearly doubled in length with the addition of 2,446 products by the Foods Standards Agency (FSA) ...
Written by Sergi Riudalbàs Clemente | 4th May 2022
The European Commission has emphasised once again that EU member states must apply the ruling of the Courts of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the Kanavape decision to national law ...
Medicinal cannabis company Kanabo has bought private telemedicine platform The GP Service in a £14m deal to make its products – and those of rival companies – more accessible in the UK ...
Jamaica is attempting to make itself as synonymous with medical-grade psychedelics in the minds of researchers as it is with cannabis production in the minds of many ...
Companies selling CBD wellness products in the EU must be wary of the lack of harmonisation at the EU level and the potential complications this can bring ...
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) is to update its list of products linked to validated CBD novel food applications to reflect those linked to a credible application and which were on the market before...
Kanabo, the company behind the UK’s first medicinal cannabis vape, has launched an e-commerce platform to sell its VapePod products to wellness CBD consumers ...
Industry associations hope a review of UK policy on cannabinoids will help the government address regulation that has limited the development of the CBD and wider sectors ...
A Polish appeals court has accepted arguments that hemp was consumed before 1997, making it non-novel and leading the court to overturn a decision by the country’s Chief Sanitary Inspectorate ...
UK clean energy specialist Peel NRE has announced ambitious plans to set up a production facility for medicinal cannabis on the Isle of Man with the aim of exporting products to emerging markets beyond Europe...
Maximum THC levels for hempseed foods and oil across the EU are a major step forward in clarifying the regulation of hemp-derived products, according to the European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA) ...
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