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K-TIP: CBD hemp in the test – few active ingredients, some with pesticides

Flowers with cannabidiol (CBD) are legal hemp products that do not have an intoxicating effect. In the K-Tipp test, only...
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Consumer Protection

Health risks from designer drugs: Further psychoactive substances banned

IG Hemp, 10.10.2023 (As a member of IG Hemp we distribute this post in our blog) After already in the...
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Consumer Protection Politics

Cannabis on the road

On the road after cannabis use - what actually applies? And how does that work with CBD hemp? Unlike alcohol,...
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Consumer Protection News

Beware of dubious cannabis investments

Cannabis investments have experienced a real boom in recent years. Thus, even non-experts of the hemp industry and small investors...
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Consumer Protection Knowledge

CBD Utilization Study 2023

"CBD is popular with older people" was the headline in various Swiss newspapers in recent weeks. The reason for this...
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Consumer Protection

France: No ban on hemp with low THC content!

About a year ago, in early 2022, French cannabis legislation was chaotic. At first, unprocessed product was banned even with...
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Consumer Protection

Cannabis in Bangkok – a travelogue

We support the work of LegalizeIt! and thank you very much for the interesting article about the legalization implementation in...
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Cannabis use by senior citizens

More and more senior citizens report using cannabis. Medical reasons are often in the foreground. In July 2023, a study...
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CBD during the vacations. What is allowed?

What products can I take with me on vacation abroad? Anyone who uses CBD products in everyday life will sooner...
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Update on the pilot tests

This summer, the topic of cannabis was regularly taken up by the media. The focus was on the so-called pilot...
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Denatured hemp oils – What’s next?

The impending introduction of mandatory denaturation for hemp oils poses major problems for the cannabis industry. In the last post...
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Consumer Protection Products

Denatured hemp oils: traders under pressure

Hemp oils with CBD are an important mainstay for Herba di Berna AG as well as for many other CBD...
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Consumer Protection Knowledge

CBG: The “Mother of Cannabinoids

While most people have at least heard of CBD (cannabidiol) and THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), CBG is a largely unknown active ingredient...
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Living soil for our hemp plants

"All of our plants grow in organic soil. For us the only way to grow plants." - with these words...
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Consumer Protection Knowledge

CBD and Long Covid

More than two years into the pandemic, it is becoming increasingly apparent how dramatic the impact of "Long Covid" will...
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Consumer Protection Politics

Comment on VKCS article “Health risk in many foods containing CBD”.

At the beginning of February, the Association of Cantonal Chemists of Switzerland (VKCS) went public with a media release on...
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Consumer Protection Knowledge

High purity CBD effective against COVID-19?

In January, researchers at the University of Chicago published a study that showed potential efficacy of CBD against the replication...
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Consumer Protection Knowledge Products

CBD for dogs

CBD products are becoming increasingly popular. Dogs and cats are fed with hemp extracts worldwide. Many owners enjoy the positive...
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CBD Vaporizing instead of smoking

CBD oils have been a recent topic on this blog. Another intake option that we would definitely like to mention...
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