Over the last few months we have read with increasing frequency posts and publications by the Secretariat to the APPG, the Advisory Board to the Secretariat (SAB APPG) and by the members to the Secretariat Advisory Board. Interestingly we have neither heard nor read anything by the actual All Party Parliamentary Group on CBD Products (APPG).

Reaction to the EFSA statement on safety of cannabidiol has been mixed. Some claiming it as an opportunity, others citing calamity and the usual suspects claiming to have foreseen it – no-one foresaw this.

HEADLINES FROM EFSA’s STATEMENT ON THE “SAFETY OF CANNABIDIOL AS A NOVEL FOOD: DATA GAPS AND UNCERTAINTIES” (PUBLISHED ON 7TH JUNE 2022)