A range of Bob Marley themed functional mushroom tinctures will soon debut in the UK under the Marley One brand ...
A Canadian cannabis retailer is banking on boosts from cross-selling and increased social media presence to buoy US sales as it gobbles up accessory providers ...
Researchers at the University of San Diego in California have published a paper showing early evidence that CBD may help ease the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal ...
Public health insurance reimbursements and no defined list of indications for medical cannabis have helped the German medical cannabis market start to realise its massive potential ...
London-based AltoVerde has chosen North Macedonia as its site for growing medical cannabis to be sold throughout European markets ...
Research from a CBD watchdog firm has found considerable inconsistencies between the levels of delta-8 THC stated on product labels and what was revealed by laboratory tests ...
Both synthetic and plant-derived CBD degrade when stored incorrectly, producing THC, according to a new study ...
Licensing issues look set to become the next big US lobbying battleground for cannabis as money moves on from the traditional legalisation-versus-prohibition field ...
London-listed Kanabo has launched the first medical cannabis vaping product in the UK in a move the company’s founder hopes will ultimately revolutionise the way medicines are administered ...
Malawi is set to have its first hemp harvest this year following the licensing of 36 companies. However, despite hopes the plant could change the country’s economic fortunes, it will continue to be strictly regulated ...
The Canadian pyschedelics company MagicMed will be taken over by the US firm Enveric Biosciences in a move that will create greater research and development as well as commercialisation opportunities ...
A range of European firms are looking to further advance research into psychedelic compounds after securing funding and backing ...
CBD growth in the UK could be boosted by a report from a new taskforce on post-Brexit regulatory change. But how likely is it that the recommendations will be implemented? ...
A year and eight months after Cibdol submitted its novel food application for EU authorisation of synthetically produced CBD, the Swiss company is still fielding questions from the European Food Safety Authority (ESFA) ...
The European Commission (EC) has validated a novel food application submitted by the Italian company Farmabios for a synthetic CBD. This is the first step to gaining novel food authorisation from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). The...
What are the potential implications for the cannabinoids market of two recently discovered compounds with chemical structures similar to those of CBD and THC – and what are they and their potential effects anyway? ...
France is lagging behind its neighbours on medical cannabis – the potential “green pig” of French agriculture – according to an author of a report which called for it to be legalised on health and finance grounds ...
CBD-infused drinks company Trip is making its way into the US after it raised $5m (£3.6m) in a Series A funding round last month ...
Brand creation and consolidation is driving a number of major business deals in the US market ...
Appetite for European ingredients producers appears to be driving the latest round of merger and acquisition (M&A) action in the cannabinoid sector ...
Nordic Oil could become the largest European CBD brand to raise money through crowd-funding as it seeks to raise €3m-€5m through the Seedrs platform ...
Trends such as sustainability and organic plant-based ingredients are helping to drive the market for hemp and cannabinoid topical products even higher, with combination products all the rage ...
CBD and cannabis startups from Scotland to Florida are attracting increasing numbers of investors as they scale up their businesses and break crowd-funding records in the process ...
UK venture capital fund Neo Kuma has invested £5m across seven healthcare companies focused on the use of psychedelics to help combat mental health issues ...
Canadian cannabis retailer High Tide is continuing its advance into the US market with the $26m acquisition of 80% of CBD e-commerce platform Fab Nutrition (FAB CBD) ...
The UK alcohol industry's voluntary regulator denies being outright opposed to CBD alcoholic drinks – but moves made by one major brand suggests many see the writing on the wall for the niche sector ...
Merger and acquisition activity remains high in the industry and two major Canadian firms – Sundial Growers and Canopy Growth – have made acquisitions this month ...
CBD-Intel assesses how Project Twenty21 is faring as it seeks to construct a registry of medical cannabis users in the UK and Europe, providing real world data on potential efficacy ...
Early moves towards a regulatory framework that would allow a cannabinoid industry in Argentina have been welcomed by insiders who hope ultimately to match or surpass the progress made by other South American nations ...
The boss of the world’s new largest global cannabis company has likened the industry’s potential to that of the alcohol business before the ending of Prohibition in the early 1930s ...
US cannabis firm Trulieve has bought Harvest Health and Recreation in a $2.1bn deal that aims to create the US’s most profitable cannabis company in what is being billed as the largest US cannabis transaction to date ...
Pain is a familiar part of everybody’s life, yet it remains a remarkably hard subject to study. It therefore is unsurprising that studies have come to differing conclusions on the use of cannabis and cannabinoids for pain relief...
Two US firms, Greenlane and KushCo, have merged in a deal that aims to create a major manufacturer and distributor of cannabis accessories in the US ...
When Biden won the US election in November 2020 the stock market value of cannabis firms soared in expectation of a more lenient political climate under the Biden administration ...
Various business deals across the US and Canada see cannabis and CBD companies expanding their portfolios and growing their brands in a series of acquisitions, investments and partnerships ...
CBD-Intel offers a review of the science behind some of cannabis’s lesser-known compounds – the so-called “minor cannabinoids” – with an emphasis on their potential applications ...
Early research into the possibility of CBD having a role to play in the fight against coronavirus infections has shown some initial promise. Any practical application remains a long way off, however ...
Australian medicinal cannabis firm Cann has moved quickly to maximise the benefits of its CBD Gelpell capsule technology by entering into a collaboration deal with healthcare technology firm Emyria ...
Jersey could become “a cannabis hub for Europe” after Northern Leaf successfully completed a second round of funding that will enable it to complete its pharmaceutical cannabis cultivation facility on the island ...
While legal cannabis is still a relatively new industry, investors are already looking for the next sector to boom – and many think that will be psychedelics ...
Access to banking services has been a problem for the legal cannabis sector in the US from the beginning – and the experience of one cooperative in Michigan shows that the relationship can be problematic for financial institutions...
Canadian cannabis firm Tilray is moving in on New Zealand’s market for medical cannabis and has received the necessary approvals to launch Tilray medical cannabis products across the country ...
As the national lockdown in the UK lifted on Monday, shoppers were excited to purchase CBD in person ...
Could cannabinoids, including CBD, provide a partial solution to the growing danger of diseases becoming resistant to existing antibiotics? ...
Scientific findings on the antimicrobial properties of cannabis – and in particular cannabinoids – have raised the question of whether they might play a role in combatting antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as MRSA ...
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 newest cannabinoid craze is stirring up controversy in the emerging legal hemp industry. Delta-8 THC, produced from hemp-extracted CBD, promises a legal high – but, many wonder, at what cost? ...
CBD companies see more synergies than threats from the provision of legal cannabis products in states such as Colorado, which has one of the oldest recreational cannabis markets in the US ...
There are profits to be made from selling cannabis in Europe, according to US company Curaleaf after it signed an agreement to acquire Europe’s largest vertically integrated independent cannabis company ...
The British Hemp Alliance (BHA) has contested the suggestion put forward by the Association for the Cannabinoid Industry (ACI) for allowable THC levels in CBD products, claiming it would only benefit “the big boys” ...