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Granskning
JuicyFields: the victims' lawyer and the order's Russian protector
Emilia Zaballos says she represents the largest group of JuicyFields victims in Spain. She has shown herself in the mantle of a self-styled Order of…
Investigation
JuicyFields: He said he was the driver
Before the court in Madrid, Nikolai Mikhailiuk described himself as Sergey Berezin's driver and personal assistant. Registers, archives and…
Granskning
JuicyFields: The German industry that made it possible
A German circle of lawyers, consultants, fair organisers and trade media gave JuicyFields the credibility the fraud needed. None of them has been…
Vetenskap
The uterus held more anandamide than any tissue measured before
PNAS 1997: the uterus around implantation carries the highest anandamide levels then measured in any mammalian tissue, and the level has to come down…
Vetenskap
The dogs got a runner's high, the ferrets got nothing
Humans and dogs showed a clear rise in endocannabinoids after running. The ferrets showed none, at any intensity. A mouse study three years later…
Regelverk
The US loosens cannabis and tightens hemp
In August the DEA argued that cannabis no longer belongs in Schedule I. At the same time a provision is approaching that lifts hemp seeds out of the…
Industrinyheter
The searches no one may answer
We collected 2,301 Swedish search suggestions about CBD. Almost all of them ask about effect: anxiety, pain, sleep, blood pressure. No lawful seller…
Granskning
JuicyFields and the media, part 2
JuicyFields: He said no. They published anyway.
Deutsche Welle's Russian service described its own anonymous source by former occupation, city of service and a prison sentence served. The details…
Granskning
JuicyFields: the fraud that helped fund the war
No later than June 2022 a wedding was held at a five-star hotel on the southern coast of Crimea. On 11 July that year JuicyFields stopped paying out…
Investigation
JuicyFields and the media, part 1
JuicyFields: Ten leading questions and one direct one
The client set out the method in advance: ten leading questions and one direct one, and the answer was already known. What was commissioned in Cape…
Investigation
Sembu Gbla: The sources that did not exist
A newspaper in Gaborone quoted three African industry bodies against Botswana's first licensed hemp producer. All three trace back to one man in…
Vetenskap
The cannabis users had higher testosterone, not lower
Communications Medicine, April 2026: 47 cannabis consumers against 47 controls, 70 endogenous steroids measured by LC-MS/MS. Testosterone 19.3…
Terroir
Everyone is moving south, but the Nordic climate yields more CBDA
Europe's CBD industry has spent a decade moving south to fetch sunlight. But sunlight and heat are not the same thing: a peer-reviewed study shows…
Investigation
KKOG: He sold bricks
In 2022 a US state regulator found that King Kong Organics and Edouard Joseph had sold unqualified securities and made untrue statements to…
Vetenskap
What chronic stress does to the endocannabinoid system, and what the research still does not know
Prolonged stress depletes the body of its own anandamide. The mechanism is mapped down to the level of a single enzyme and measured in humans with…
Vetenskap
CBD and addiction: what the research shows
UCL 2013: 24 smokers using a CBD inhaler cut consumption by 40%. A Mount Sinai study on opioid dependence: reduced craving and anxiety. The evidence…
Vetenskap
New CBD study 2026: 90 million users in the US
Frontiers in Public Health 2026: 35.2% of US adults have tried CBD (~90 million). 32% use CBD alongside medication. 1,523 adults surveyed.
Industrinyheter
Advocates push for wider access to medical cannabis in women’s health conditions
The Women’s Cannabis Project has developed a European policy framework for medical cannabis in women’s health conditions. The initiative builds on US…
Industrinyheter
EFSA, Novel Food and CBD: where the decision stands in May 2026
EFSA set a provisional safe intake level for CBD of ~2 mg/day in February 2026. Behind the number lies a deeper structural problem: hemp has been…