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What is CBD: a beginner's guide
New to CBD? Where it comes from, how to recognise it on the shelf and what it does not promise.
Guides to CBD: strengths, extract types, lab reports.
9 articles · updated on 11 October 2026

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New to CBD? Where it comes from, how to recognise it on the shelf and what it does not promise.

What the authorities have written about CBD, what is still unknown and how to compare products by numbers, not promises.

What is allowed, what is not and what to check before you buy — the law as of October 2026.

Same plant, same chemical formula — and yet only one of them is intoxicating and controlled by law.

One is a kitchen oil pressed from seeds, the other an extract measured in milligrams. How to tell them apart.

The label and the batch report tell you more than any advert. Here is what to look for.

A few simple sums to set an oil, a box of capsules and a cream side by side.

Three extracts, the same CBD. What differs is what else stays from the plant — and the THC on the report.

Batch, lab, CBD, THC and safety tests — in the order worth checking them.