Mafia atmosphere at CBD Shop France. Strong franchise of its more than 100 brands, CBD Shop France makes plan an air of prohibition. But rest assured: everything they sell is legal!

Colombiana Haze

The Colombiana Haze is the nugget of CBD Shop France. Variety from South America, it will recall the old-school versions of Haze with very green colors and smells mixing pine and spices.

La Colombiana Haze

Colombiana Haze is advertised at between 10 and 12% CBD, giving it the ability to both stimulate, at low doses, or relax at higher doses.

The strain is so popular that all of the brand’s infusions and drinks are made from Colombiana Haze.

A wider product range

If the Colombiana holds the top of the poster, the card of CBD Shop France is however more extensive than a single variety. Whether you are looking for fruity varieties like Mango, classics like Amnesia or CBG flowers, which relax the head more than the body, the shop continuously offers around twenty distinct varieties, to which are added a few moonrocks.

On the CBD resin side, different qualities and textures are offered, from sparkling Afghani to hashes filtered 3 times and amounting to 57% CBD.

SPECTROF CBD oils offered by CBD shop France

The full spectrum CBD oils are sometimes referred to as “full spectrum” oils because they contain all of the compounds found in the cannabis plant. It is also a sign of quality due to the extraction method used.

The French brand SPECTROF chose to use this natural method of cold extraction, to guarantee the presence of all cannabinoids and maintain the integrity of the elements present in the hemp plant. In contrast, so-called isolated CBD oil, obtained from CBD crystals, contains heavy metals and chemical residues caused by the isolation of the CBD molecule by solvents.

What is the main difference between the two types of oil? On the one hand, CBD oil is only composed of isolated cannabidiol (CBD), while Full Spectrum CBD oil contains other compounds from the cannabis plant, such as cannabigerol ( CBG), cannabinol (CBN), and more.

L’full spectrum cbd oil is also considered more potent and effective than isolated CBD oil. Indeed, due to the presence of all the compounds of hemp, it allows you to take advantage of theentourage effecti.e. a stronger effect, and over a longer period of time.

Capone Show

Each week, CBD Shop France releases a new episode of its Capone Show on Youtube, one of the first programs 100% dedicated to CBD on the social network.

Whether it is to highlight a product, a tip, advice or production secrets, the show brilliantly presents a mastered subject.

CBD Shop France is also the first brand of CBD to have released his weekly Youtube show. The context ? Each week, a product, a tip, a production secret or a theme specific to the Legal CBD is addressed, in order to remove all questions and taboos around the legal cannabis use.

A show 100% dedicated to CBDthe first two seasons of which are already available on the platform, i.e. 25 episodes that are fun, educational and interesting whether you are a seasoned CBD consumer or a novice in the field.

The unmissable meeting place for lovers of 100% natural CBD for well-being and relaxation.

Eden Pharma Limited, a London-based company, announced on Friday the acquisition of 5,000 acres (about 2,000 hectares) in Uganda through a joint venture, which will be used for research and development of cannabis.

Uganda allowed the cultivation of medical cannabis in 2020 and is already an exporter of medical cannabis, especially to the UK.

Eden Pharma is a cannabis-focused research and development company founded in 2017.

“This project is licensed by the Ugandan government and aims to be the largest cannabis facility in the world. The site should conduct research on cannabis and its industry, and [générer] huge amounts of raw materials and CBD for markets around the world,” Eden said in a press release.

” The joint venture in Uganda offered Eden Pharma significant development opportunities. It will be a vertically integrated business,” the company added in reference to its business model and supply chain.

Eden Uganda Project

The company said that within three years of the completion of the Eden Uganda project, it expects its workforce to be 100% local.

According to Eden, the project is to “build a community for the local people”, create jobs, stimulate the local economy and improve the quality of life.

“This community will include infrastructure such as research labs, pharmacies and an airport.”

The company is also expected to increase Uganda’s GDP by 3%. A documentary film is currently in production. It shows land in Uganda and is titled “The Garden of Africa”.

The French hemp producer Hemperious launched in 2020 on Beaujolais lands. If this family adventure aims to strengthen France’s place within the European CBD hemp industry, it does not wish to do it alone. Hemperious has thus developed a co-production program that supports companies wishing to embark on the cultivation of hemp for CBD purposes.

It now works with around forty co-producers to whom it provides its hemp genetics and trains them in good agricultural practices to get the best out of the plants and the soil on which the farms are located. The company is thus able to offer consumers CBD flowers from the best French soils.

Hemperious comes in Madehellin

To market its products, Hemperious launched the Madehellin brand. On the menu, CBD flowers grown by Hemperious and its partners as well as their derivative products such as CBD resins or sublingual oils.

Hemperious cultivates 6 varieties in its fields. The flowers are harvested as late as possible while not exceeding the legal limit of 0.3% THC. They are then dried, cleaned and cured for 20 days before being packaged for stores or direct customers. Hemperious CBD flowers are not depressed, not terpenized, and no CBD is added.

Pink October at Hemperious

For oils, Hemperious works by extraction or maceration of their flowers. The carrier oil used is crushed hemp seed oil and CBG or CBN isolates are used in conjunction with CBD to create formulations with specific actions.

Madehellin has also imagined cosmetics for sports recovery or nourishing the face and herbal teas enriched with CBD from the trim of their flowers.

Beyond its products, Madehellin also offers the opening of franchises with 0€ entry fee, 0% royalties and 0€ purchase of stocks.

In this month of October, Hemperious and Madehellin donate 10% of orders to La ligue contre le Cancer as part of Operation Pink October, dedicated to the fight against breast cancer, the leading cause of cancer death in women. in France.

If there was one figure to remember from these 4 years of cannabis legalization in Canada, it would probably be that 68% of consumers now buy from the legal market according to Statistics Canada estimates.

The big winner from regulation, however, is not the cannabis lover but the Canadian government, which went from spending around C$440 million a year on drug interdiction to now reaping C$250 million a year. year in direct taxes and has generated over CA$15 billion in tax revenue since legalization.

By way of comparison, the legal cannabis market represented half of the beer market in Canada last July, with CA$395 million in sales, 10 times more than in the first month of legalization, with more than 3,300 stores on its territory. territory, 33 times more than in October 2018.

So, of course, the regulation is not perfect. The country is also reviewing its legalization to assess the work done and learn how and where to adapt to achieve its goals of protecting public health and maintaining public safety.

Both consumers and manufacturers are asking for a relaxation of overly strict regulations. Everything that is not sold legally continues to be sold on the black market. The most French of Canadian provinces, for example, still prohibits edibles or the THC cartridges to vape, which are not difficult to find outside the shelves of the SQDC. Quebec also restricts the self-cultivation of cannabis. And only 98 branches have opened in 4 years, with fairly high prices, sometimes tight schedules and fluctuating delivery possibilities, while Ontario has opened more than 1,500 stores over the same period for a population twice as high.

For their part, cannabis companies denounce excessive taxes that prevent them from generating profits – and from satisfying their shareholders. A CA$100 investment made in Canopy Growth on October 17, 2018 — the day cannabis was legalized — is now worth just CA$5.16. Too high forecasts, strong competition and falling selling prices in the recreational market have led to the downfall of many production or retail companies.

The micro-licensing model gives a second wind to small producers who can start producing or processing small quantities of cannabis, generally in a short circuit, and with much more artisanal products than the large clean rooms of large LPs.

What about the impact on public health? Canada has not seen massive shipments of heroin or crack into the pockets of pushers and teenagers didn’t jump on cannabis, as prohibition advocates like to repeat.

The youngest are also consuming less cannabis since legalization and the increase in consumption in Canada, attributed in particular to the greater availability of the product, the greater ease of talking about it and the periods of confinement, generally follows global trends, with no noticeable explosion so far either in consumption or in problematic consumption or in psychoses and other mental illnesses.

Canada has given ideas to a growing number of countries, including Luxembourg, Malta, Germany, Thailand or the Czech Republic, which are trying to implement national legalization. Even the United States federal government recently took a small step toward reforming its cannabis laws.

But Canada’s ambition does not stop there. The task force in charge of its regulation hopes to reach 80% of the legal market by 2028.

Saint Kitts and Nevis legalized medical cannabis in 2019. Since then, the Caribbean nation has made no progress on its regulation, which Prime Minister Terrance Drew regrets, who told the St Kitts-Nevis Information Service that the country was lagging behind other Caribbean countries in developing a medical cannabis industry.

“Antigua is ahead, St. Vincent is ahead, Jamaica is ahead, and we know that people go to those countries because they have a well-controlled, well-monitored industry, … which allows the use of the cannabis. So we’ll be on that path, and we’ll see a lot of action in that area in year one,” said Terrance Drew.

The Prime Minister added, “We have established a Marijuana Commission and this Commission will begin to work in earnest to enable us to achieve this goal. We will then take steps to expunge the criminal records of those convicted of cannabis possession. We believe this should not be used as a way to limit people’s advancement in their own lives and will therefore put in place the necessary legislation to achieve this. »

Additionally, Prime Minister Drew has made it clear that his administration will ensure that the citizens and residents of St. Kitts and Nevis are the first to benefit from the establishment of this industry.

He said, “Right now, we don’t see outsiders necessarily coming to dominate this industry. This industry must be developed by our people. We won’t make that mistake, and that’s why we will, of course, meet with those who are involved in this industry and find ways to make sure they’re part of it… I would say right now, the objective is to ensure that local producers are protected [et] that our people are protected within this industry. »

In Jamaica, the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) was established in 2015, with a specific role to establish and regulate the legal cannabis and hemp industry.

The Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Medical Cannabis Authority was created by the Medical Cannabis Industry Act of 2018.

On June 14, 2021, the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, through its Medical Cannabis Authority, issued the first official license for the production of medical cannabis. The first license was issued to Grow Antigua – a public/private hybrid enterprise that includes government, Rastafari communities and private enterprise as central stakeholders.

In parallel with its legalization of therapeutic cannabis in 2019, Saint Kitts and Nevis decriminalized its non-medical use up to 56 grams per person.

Uber Eats will begin offering cannabis deliveries for three Toronto cannabis stores starting Monday, October 17.

The announcement, made on October 16, includes a partnership with Leafly. Uber Eats will offer delivery for Toronto cannabis stores Shivaa’s Rose, Hidden Leaf Cannabis and Minerva Cannabis.

All three retailers will have to provide their own certified and trained staff for deliveries, but consumers will be able to place their orders in the “cannabis” category of the Uber Eats app.

The consumer experience will be similar to ordering food through Uber Eats, with the customer being notified when the order is accepted and processed. Ontario’s cannabis rules do not allow independent third-party cannabis delivery services, so deliveries will always be made by store staff trained by CannaSell, the training and certification program for cannabis. Ontario cannabis retailers.

Uber Eats first offered users the ability to order cannabis products for pickup at Tokyo Smoke locations last November, but did not offer a delivery option at the time. The new deal with Leafly also means retailers won’t have to run their own menu. Leafly offers menu listings for many Canadian cannabis retailers.

Uber Eats says it offers these services to provide more delivery options for the Toronto area.

“We’re partnering with industry leaders like Leafly to help retailers provide safe and convenient options for Torontonians to buy legal cannabis for home delivery, which will help combat the illegal market and reduce impaired driving,” said Lola Kassim, general manager of Uber Eats Canada in a company press release.

“Over the past few years, we have invested heavily in our delivery business, and the selection has grown enormously. Uber Eats has grown rapidly to become a versatile platform that can be used by a variety of businesses, large and small. »

Getting cannabis delivered to Canada

Ontario began temporarily allowing curbside delivery and pickup of cannabis in early 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions. In early 2022, the rules were made permanent.

Alberta also began allowing cannabis stores to make deliveries in March 2022, but specifically banned third-party delivery services such as taxis, Uber Eats and Skip the Dishes.

In July 2021, British Columbia announced that retailers would be able to make their own cannabis deliveries. Then, in March of this year, the government of British Columbia also announced that it would begin making deliveries from its BC Cannabis Store online via a third-party delivery service, Pineapple Express.

In July of this year, British Columbia announced that private cannabis stores in the province could also deliver via common carriers such as Canada Post and other delivery service providers.

All Canadian provinces and territories offer various delivery options, either from stores or from a provincial online store. Manitoba and Saskatchewan also offer cannabis delivery options to retailers, as do Quebec, New Brunswick, Yukon, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.

In 2003, Henk de Vries, creator and owner of the Bulldog for 40 years, launched his own energy drink simply called The Bulldog. The world famous logo of his growling dog was already on t-shirts, caps and iced tea. So why not?

But because the word Bull was included in the name of its drink, Red Bull saw red. The Austro-Thai collective threatened De Vries to withdraw its energy drinks from the market very quickly, as Bulldog unfairly benefits from Red Bull’s worldwide fame.

Bulldog damage over $300 million?

In 2017, the European Court nevertheless ruled that The Bulldog had not infringed Red Bull’s trademark rights. The Dutch company is now claiming 49 million euros to Red Bull and had the company and its bank accounts seized, according to documents in the possession of the magazine Quote.

According to the Bulldog’s lawyer, several attempts have been made to enter into talks with Red Bull, without success. The trial will therefore begin next November. Red Bull Netherlands informed Quote that he was awaiting this trial.

Based on extensive market research, Amsterdam-based Sman Business calculated a possible loss of over 300 million euros for Bulldog.

Over the past two decades, the global energy drink market has taken off. Austrian Dietrich Mateschitz has become a multi-billionaire with Red Bull. His business partner, the late Chaleo Yoovidhya, too. He was the third richest man in Thailand. In South Africa, Rodney Sacks is dribbling with billions, thanks in part to voracious Monster drinkers.

And that’s not counting the boom in THC drinks in the United States, a market that the Bulldog could completely nibble on.

In a historic move, UzCanna Ltd, a subsidiary of Malta-based Melabis, has become the first company in modern times to legally import hemp seeds into Uzbekistan.

The company, founded in 2018 by British entrepreneur Damon Booth, has imported more than four million seeds of Fedora Auto, an EU-certified low-THC hemp variety, after working with that country’s government landlocked in Central Asia to facilitate the process.

The $33 million investment, spread over five years, will also allow UzCanna to build a state-of-the-art 10,000 m² greenhouse to create a seed bank with the aim of producing an additional eight to ten million seeds.

Planting of the first batch of seeds – supplied by Ventura Seeds – on approximately 500 fully secured hectares will begin in April 2023 at UzCanna farm in the Sardoba district of Sirdaryo region in central Uzbekistan, and d Other land will be set aside for cultivation as the seed bank becomes operational.

Unmatched prices

According to Damon Booth, buyers have already come forward for the first harvest, with each plant expected to offer an abundant CBD biomass of one eighth to one quarter of a kilogram.

Listed as a certified hemp variety for the cultivation of industrial hemp in the United States and the European Union, Fedora Auto is an autoflowering variety with a THC level of less than 0.2% but which can provide up to 12% CBD.

It will help place UzCanna among the players in the market with high potential, as it seeks to bring products to consumers at a fairer cost. Damon Booth expects CBD Biomass to be sold in Europe at unparalleled prices.

Speaking to BusinessCann from Istanbul, Booth said: “This gives us a head start in Uzbekistan, where we are currently the only company operating in this field. This is an incredibly exciting but at the same time nerve-wracking decision for us. This is a large-scale project, the largest and only project of its kind in Central Asia.

“Depending on the season, we will employ up to 200 farmers per year. It is a difficult task to try to change the outlook of a country, but we are convinced that it is the right decision.

Damon Booth

“The benefits for Uzbekistan, both economically and environmentally, will be potentially enormous, as we gradually increase our cultivation footprint year on year, seek to develop our own finished products and, within two or three years, we will expand our reach in Central Asia. »

Melabis has the potential to plant nearly 3,000 hectares – a footprint equivalent to that of a small town – with the aim of doubling its agricultural footprint each year until it reaches full capacity.

Growth in production, however, will be determined by the amount of seed the company can produce.

“It took a lot of hard work to get here, but the fact that a conservative country like Uzbekistan changed its laws to allow the cultivation of cannabis and now the import of seeds shows the rest of the world what they could do,” he said.

Business-friendly boom

Construction work on the cultivation greenhouse is expected to begin at the end of January 2023 and last approximately six weeks. It will be located next to a dry milling facility, racks and a test laboratory.

UzCanna’s move to Uzbekistan was driven by the climate, low operating costs and the fact that the country is booming in business.

It brings the legal cultivation of hemp back to a region that has a long history with this plant. Many experts believe that the region covered by present-day Uzbekistan is where Cannabis Indica appeared and where hemp cultivation began.

The cultivation of cannabis plants is legal for state-owned enterprises and for scientific purposes, provided you obtain the correct license from the authorities. In March 2020, the Uzbek authorities legalized the cultivation of industrial hemp with a THC content below 0.2%, provided that growers obtain a license from the government.

Booth said, “Our goal is to be the lowest priced yet highest quality bulk CBD producer for extraction companies. Our clients are extraction companies in Europe, and they extract finished products. We want to be the wholesale supplier of this product. »

“Right now these extraction companies are going to the Balkan countries – Lithuania and Poland – and Bulgaria and they’re probably paying twice as much for a lower percentage of CBD than what we’re going to charge. »

Key associates

UzCanna hopes to double its initial harvest of 500 hectares thanks to the seed bank. “It all comes down to making sure we get enough seeds out of the greenhouse to put them in the ground.”

Among the investors are two bio-asset management companies and Daniel Petrov, founding member and former vice president of Aurora Cannabis.

Mr. Petrov is part of a group of experts in their field who are working with Melabis to help the company gain a foothold in the European market and in the Asian market.

Other names include compliance and security expert David Hyde, accomplished financial modeler Adam Siskin, respected extraction chemist Alexzander Samuelsson, Ventura Seed Company agronomist Riki Trowe, Stephen Jordan, CEO of ACP Farms, and Jordan Thomson, global authority on facility development and operations.

It took almost two years of negotiations with the Uzbek authorities for UzCanna to make the legislative changes necessary for the success of its activities in the country.

“Our competitors are Africa, China and Colombia in terms of costs. No one can do business in China, in Africa there is too much corruption and too many headaches, and in Colombia it is the same. »

“Yes, we could have given up and gone elsewhere, but when the Uzbek authorities saw our ambition, they knew the opportunity was too good to pass up. »

“This is a case where we finally got there. And as the only company operating in this field in Uzbekistan, we are ahead of the game.”

A country can be in the process of legalizing cannabis and punishing the hemp flower trade at the same time.

The German Federal Court of Justice thus rejected the appeals of two defendants against a Berlin judgment sentencing them to prison terms, in particular for trafficking in CBD flowers. The judgment was motivated by the fact that cooking the CBD flowers could possibly release THC and therefore an intoxicating effect, the flowers then falling under the narcotics law.

This is not the first time that Germany has cracked down on CBD Shops.

The Berlin Regional Court sentenced one of the defendants, inter alia, for trafficking narcotics in an organized gang in significant quantities in two cases and the other for complicity in this trafficking, to a total of three years’ imprisonment. and nine months for the first and ten months for the second whose execution he suspended.

According to the findings of the regional court, the main defendant purchased in September and October 2019 60 kg of hemp flowers containing a high proportion of cannabidiol (CBD). He profitably resold the CBD flowers to wholesalers, who in turn sold them to CBD shops.

The full review of the judgment, carried out following the appeal on the merits, classified CBD flowers as narcotics within the meaning of Schedule I of the German Narcotics Act (BtMG). The flowers, however, respected the active substance limit of 0.2% THC.

But the court ruled that the abuse of CBD flowers for the purpose of intoxication cannot be ruled out. Indeed, still according to the court which did not call on any expert to verify if this was indeed the case, if the flowers were heated, for example during cooking, this resulted in the release of an uncertain quantity of THC. , which could cause cannabis intoxication when consumed by the end consumer. The main defendant declared himself aware of this, which may explain part of the verdict.

In view of the possibility of the misuse of CBD flowers for the purpose of intoxication, “dangerous to health”, the 5th Criminal Chamber of the Federal Court of Justice based in Leipzig found that the trade in CBD flowers violated “the constitutional prohibition of intoxication”.

The statement from the court’s press service finally states that “the judgment of the Berlin Regional Court is therefore final”.

The Berlin start-up Bunte Blume, which marketed cookies made from hemp flowers, was acquitted in 2020 after being accused of organized drug trafficking. The court ruled that the company’s founders “couldn’t have known about the intoxicating effect of homemade brownies.”

The extension of the experimentation of medical cannabis, although it is wanted by the Ministry of Health, is now being played out within the framework of the Social Security Financing Bill.

Several amendments were tabled by the various parliamentary groups making up the committee.

In a synthetic way:

• EELV has proposed in 4 separate amendments the legalization of recreational cannabis, an experiment in the legalization of recreational cannabis, the generalization of medical cannabis or the extension of the experiment for one year. The first three were deemed inadmissible, the last was rejected.
• a cross-partisan group led by Caroline Janvier proposed the extension of the experimentation of medical cannabis for one year with the obligation for the Ministry of Health to work on “the conditions of production and distribution of medical cannabis as well as on the advisability of its reimbursement. The amendment was rejected.
• Horizons proposed extending the experiment for 3 years. The amendment was adopted.
• Loiret MEP Stéphanie Rist, rapporteur for the Commission, tabled a sub-amendment proposing a one-year extension. The subamendment was carried.

The amendment which will be debated in the hemicycle will therefore propose extending the experiment for a year.

To our knowledge, no budget has been allocated for this extension. Nothing obliges either to generalize at the end of the possible extension. The ministry does not commit either to the construction of the conditions for the production and distribution of medical cannabis in France in the meantime or to the study of its reimbursement.

If the proposed amendment was not voted on during its study in the Assembly, from our understanding, the experimentation would stop without generalization.

The statement of the adopted sub-amendment explains that the experiment “has not yet been able to produce sufficient clinical results for us to be able to decide on its generalization. »

Let us remember all the same on a factual basis that the experimentation of therapeutic cannabis was not intended to produce clinical results but “to evaluate, in a real situation, the recommendations of the Committee in terms of prescribing and dispensing conditions and the adherence of health professionals and patients to these conditions” according to the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines (ANSM).