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California-based cannabis operator Beard Bros has signed a commercial collaboration with vertically integrated UK cannabinoid manufacturer BRITISH CANNABIS to develop and distribute CBD and CBG products across the UK, Europe and North America, in a bi-directional partnership that gives each side a route into the other’s regulated markets.
The director of UK CBD brand Virtutum Limited, which traded as CBD Asylum in Hull, has been given a suspended prison sentence for fraud and money laundering.
French trade groups are seeking to overturn the ban on the sale of CBD food supplements in an attempted re-run of the successful 2022 removal of the ban on the sale of flowers.
THE European Union looks set to determine that cannabidiol is a ‘human reproductive toxicant’ in a move which could wipe out the continent’s CBD cosmetic sector and seriously damage the supplements one.
Last week (April 27), the deadline for Greek industry stakeholders to have their say on a controversial new hemp ban expired.
The long and arduous journey to regulate cannabidiol (CBD) in Europe, which began in 2018 with the European Union’s classification of CBD as a ‘novel food’, is now playing out in the courtrooms of the United States.
In April 2025, the Italian government used emergency constitutional powers to bypass parliament and reclassify non-intoxicating hemp as a narcotic, regardless of THC content, following multiple failed attempts to decimate the industry.
US Medicare patients have now been given access to cannabidiol (CBD) products through a landmark federal pilot scheme, helping boost cannabis stocks.
The UK CBD industry’s long and hard-fought battle to become the first in the world to receive official regulatory approval looks likely to have been in vain, as the Food Standards Agency (FSA) raises serious questions over whether the process can deliver before it is overtaken by an EU alignment initiative.
