Medical Cannabis Translation Europe: One Word, Wrong Dose
A study of computer-generated Spanish medicine labels found that the instruction ‘once a day’ could appear untranslated. A Spanish-speaking patient could then read a once-daily dose as eleven times a day. That example had nothing to do with cannabis. But the mechanism...
AI Cannabis Translation: What It Misses in Europe and What It Costs
Your marketing team uses ChatGPT to produce the German version of your CBD product page. The output reads well. The product goes live. Three months later, a compliance review flags a claim under the food and health-claims rules applicable in Germany. The issue is not...
CBD Novel Food Closures: A Cannabis Translation Specialist’s View
In June 2026, the European Commission terminated three CBD novel food procedures. Specifically, each covered a different dossier: CBD isolate (NF/2021/2302), CBD (NF/2021/2437), and CBD (NF/2021/2440). Every termination took the form of a formal Commission...
Italy’s Hemp Documentation Gap: Why “EU Compliant” Isn’t a Due Diligence Checklist
In late July, Italy's Guardia di Finanza raided a hemp operation in Lucca. The operation involved an agricultural company that had previously held authorisation to cultivate so-called canapa light. The Guardia di Finanza's Nucleo Mobile confirmed that those...
Cannabis Localization in Europe: 27 Regulatory Vocabularies
A CBD product page translated correctly into German, French, and Spanish can still be non-compliant in two of those three markets. The words are right. The regulatory category behind them is not. Cannabis localization in Europe gets treated as a language problem —...
Spain’s Medical Cannabis Channel: What It Actually Restricts
In October 2025, Spain approved Real Decreto 903/2025, its first specific regulatory framework for standardised cannabis preparations. Nine months later, brands are still describing it the way they would describe Germany's or the Netherlands' framework — as a market...
The Cannabis Translation Gap Generalist Agencies Can’t Close
Large, generalist language service providers rarely explain why they stay out of cannabis. They just don’t build the service line. We track the agencies that could plausibly move into this space. None has yet built cannabis into a strategic specialisation. Not...
Cannabis Labeling in Europe: What the 2026 Drug Report Means for Your Brand
The European Union Drug Agency (EUDA) published its European Drug Report 2026 on 9 June, and the cannabis section confirms what most people working in this sector already feel day to day: the market isn’t just present, it’s expanding — in users, in product...
Medical Cannabis Translation in Europe: Why Germany and Spain Speak Different Regulatory Languages
Germany and Spain now have medical cannabis laws — but the regulatory language is completely different. Here’s what that means for your content.
What Spannabis Taught Me About Cannabis Translation
I wasn’t expecting the surprise on people’s faces. I went to Spannabis Bilbao ready to listen, to observe, to understand where the cannabis sector is right now. What I wasn’t prepared for was how many people reacted to my work with genuine...