While CBD has been one of THE stories of 2018, the novelty phase is now over, and 2019 will be the year the longer-term future of CBD products becomes clearer. CBD-Intel looks at prospects for the months ahead...
Companies which make beverages containing CBD are resorting to new technologies to get around a thorny problem.
CBD is not water soluble, meaning a fatty emulsion needs to be created in order to get the substance to mix with...
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 ...
Turning Point Brands, one of America’s largest smokeless tobacco and vapour companies, has taken a minority stake in Canadian American Standard Hemp, a company dedicated to CBD products ...
US tobacco giant Altria has bought a 45% stake in Canadian cannabis company the Cronos Group, with the option to take a majority 55% stake within the next four years ...
The merger of two companies in the US CBD sector – Level Brands and Cure Based Developments – is dependent on the US Farm Bill legalising CBD at federal level ...
Charlotte’s Web Holdings, which claims to be the market leader in “innovative hemp-based, CBD wellness products”, says it expects to add national drugstores to its thousands of locations in the US soon ...
Among a wave of drinkable CBD products released in the UK this year, one of the more controversial is Love Hemp’s CBD-infused bottled water – advertised as being spring water “infused with CBD hemp droplets” ...
Canadian medical cannabis company Wayland Group has agreed to purchase 51% of the British firm Theros Pharma for £27.8m – if it succeeds in gaining a UK cultivation or import licence ...
Canadian company Indivia has announced its first move into the European market after investing in a deal worth more than $1.1m to purchase a licence to grow cannabis in Denmark ...
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...
Securing cannabis supplies for research purposes is the focus of an information request from the US federal government. They are asking businesses about the ability to analyse, produce, and even distribute cannabis products for research. The National Institute...
A Big Tobacco company which invested in a medical cannabis startup will not influence how the smaller firm is run, according to bosses at Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies ...
Investment in Europe continues as companies in the medical cannabis sector anticipate further loosening of regulations. In the pure-CBD sector, two American firms are eyeing expansion ...
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 ...
American CBD company CV Sciences announces sales of $13.6m in the third quarter of 2018 and $34m over the first nine months of the year while Terra Tech reveals merger ...
Two North American companies have announced collaborations with established drug delivery firms to produce and expand distribution for oral CBD strips – soluble strips that dissolve in the mouth ...
Colorado-based Mile High Labs has announced $35m in Series A funding from institutional and private equity investors to expand its CBD production capacity ...
Australia may become a big exporter of organic hemp products, especially to Asia, according to the president of the Australian Industrial Hemp Alliance (AIHA) ...
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 ...
CBD and other legal cannabis products appear to be dividing the tobacco industry.
Around half of the major Western tobacco companies have publicly announced an interest in the cannabis and cannabis-product spheres with the other half continuing to deny...
Many British CBD companies are finding their voice and their own way to make the regulations that ban them from making medical claims work for them and the consumer ...
A major CBD show is to be held in Las Vegas next month in what is billed as “an epic collaboration of two industries”. The CBD.io event will take place on 9th and 10th November in conjunction with...
Prospects for CBD in Brazil depend hugely on the outcome of the forthcoming presidential election, in which the far right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro has emerged as a very strong favourite ...
Canadian company Emerald Health Therapeutics is set to sign a deal to use an extraction facility capable of processing 1000 tonnes of biomass to produce 600m softgel CBD capsules a year ...
Intrexon, an American biotech company listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange, has announced a development in its microbial platform capable of producing cannabinoids for medical use ...
A Canadian company has come under regulatory scrutiny and lost a major business deal after it attempted to recruit new medical cannabis users at a dance club party using scantily clad women in nurses’ uniforms ...
Tobacco giant Imperial Brands is looking to new markets such as cannabis and CBD in the near future. “At the moment we are looking to understand this space”, said Alison Cooper, CEO of Imperial Brands, about the cannabis market in...
Cannabis growers in Massachusetts have indicated they may sue the state’s Cannabis Control Commission over a dispute that appears to have delayed the start of legal sales there ...
Namaste Technologies, the company behind Canadian online cannabis sales platform CannMart, is planning an advance into Europe, taking CBD products into the UK market as food supplements ...
Australian company MGC Pharmaceuticals has signed a deal to distribute cannabis-based pharmaceutical products throughout Europe and to produce and cultivate medical cannabis in Malta ...
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 ...
CBD products, which the shop-owner and the suppliers say were entirely legal, have been seized by police from a vape shop in Plymouth in the southwest of England ...
The town of Nelas in north central Portugal is to be the site of a new CBD oil factory producing medicinal products extracted from cannabis sativa for export to America and within Europe ...
Cannabis and nicotine together have notably different effects on the brain than either of them taken on their own. That’s the conclusion of US researchers who noted that cannabis is commonly consumed in conjunction with tobacco ...
A Polish CBD company has been acquired by a publicly traded Canadian medicinal cannabis company in a cash-and-shares deal worth more than $15m USD plus future incentives ...
Crossover between vapourisers and e-cigarettes has been found to be quite low and companies dedicated to both vapourisers and e-cigarettes are rare ...
While queues on Paris pavements show there is high demand for CBD products, those attempting to meet that demand risk severe repercussions from French authorities caught out by the rise of a not-yet-regulated market ...
Vaping businesses in the US are experiencing a shift in consumer preferences for methods of extracting CBD and THC from cannabis, with more manufacturers developing distillers to help meet the growing demand for purer products ...
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