MediCBD UK Stockist

MediCBD is a Multitrance brand, and three others here are too

Multitrance is based at Diemen, just outside Amsterdam, describes itself as a producer, wholesaler and retailer, and dates itself to 1995. On its own site it names its brand family openly: Bubbly Billy Buds, Gold Leaf, Astra Hemp, Haze Holland and MediCBD. MediCBD has its own brand section on the manufacturer's website, which is about as direct as confirmation gets.

Work through our own shelves with that in mind and the picture is striking. We list Multitrance, MediCBD, Astra Hemp and Bubbly Billy Buds as four separate brands with four separate pages. They are one company. Between them that is sixty two products under four names from a single manufacturer.

We are not hiding it, and we are not apologising for it either. A stockist carries what a distributor supplies, and these arrive labelled as four brands, so four brands is how they appear in a product grid. What we can do is tell you where the overlaps are, because they are extensive and they are the single most useful thing to know before you pick one.

The MediCBD name itself deserves a sentence. The Medi prefix reads medical, and the manufacturer's own headline leans the same way. Nothing in this range is a medicine, none of it is licensed as one, and we make no claim whatsoever about what any of it does. It is a brand name and nothing more should be read into it.

What 17mg on a pack of MediCBD gum actually means

This is the part worth reading properly, because most listings print 17mg and almost none of them tell you what that number is attached to.

It is the strength of a single piece. A pack holds twelve pieces at 17mg each, which is two hundred and four milligrams in the pack. Two independent trade listings state that total outright, one for this gum and one for the identical gum sold under a sibling brand, and two hundred and four is exactly twelve times seventeen.

The reason this is easy to get wrong is a coincidence of numbers. A pack of twelve pieces weighs about seventeen grams, so 17mg of cannabidiol and 17g of chewing gum sit next to each other on the same pack, and several retailers have quietly turned the per-piece dose into a pack total. They are different quantities that happen to share a figure.

Now the part that matters. The Food Standards Agency advises healthy adults to keep cannabidiol from food supplements to no more than ten milligrams a day. A single 17mg piece is already above that, and the 36mg version is more than three times it in one piece. This is not a gentle product, and anyone who has read a listing that implied a milligram or two a piece has been given a figure roughly twelve times too low.

So the practical guidance is the opposite of what the small number on the front suggests. One piece is a full dose and then some. If you are new to cannabidiol, half a piece is a more sensible place to start than a whole one, and the 36mg gum is not a beginner's product at all.

Our own listing does not settle this. It records a strength of 17mg against a pack quantity of one, which is the per-piece figure attached to what is almost certainly a trade display of twenty four packs. We are confirming exactly what arrives against every line with our distributor before this range opens to orders.

The gummy bears and the tea are labelled the other way round, as pack totals. Three hundred milligrams is the total in a pack of gummy bears, and one hundred and fifty milligrams is the total across twenty teabags, which is around seven and a half milligrams in each bag if it distributes evenly. So the same brand prints a per-piece figure on its gum and a pack total on everything else, with nothing on any label to tell you which convention you are looking at.

How MediCBD compares with its own sibling brands

Normally this section compares a brand against its rivals. Here the useful comparison is mostly against itself, because the nearest alternatives to MediCBD on our shelves are three other labels from the same factory.

The gum is the clearest case. MediCBD, Multitrance and Astra Hemp all sell sugar-free cannabidiol gum at 17mg and 36mg in a twenty four pack, and the Bubbly Billy Buds gum runs the same two strengths again. Four labels, one specification. If you are choosing between them, choose on flavour and on what is actually in stock, because there is no evidence of any other difference.

The gummy bears are the same story. MediCBD gummy bears are 300mg, and so are the Multitrance and Bubbly Billy versions, in the same three fruit flavours. The pyramid tea is 150mg across twenty bags under both the MediCBD and Multitrance names, while the Astra Hemp pyramid tea carries no printed cannabidiol figure at all, which makes it a different proposition despite looking identical on a shelf.

So what does MediCBD do that its siblings do not. One thing, and it is worth something: it is the only one of the four that covers all three formats at a stated strength. If you want gum, gummies and tea with a printed milligram figure from a single label, this is the label. Multitrance covers the same three and then another fifty lines besides, so it wins on breadth while MediCBD is the tidier version of the same catalogue.

For a genuine independent alternative you have to leave the family. Hempthy makes gummies from 300mg up to 1200mg and an infused teabag at 160mg, so it competes directly in two of these three formats and goes considerably higher on strength. Orange County covers gummies from 100mg to 4800mg, which is the widest strength range in our gummy aisle by a distance. Neither makes chewing gum, which is the one format where the Dutch family has our shelf to itself.

Provenance, documentation and Novel Foods

Provenance is straightforward. These are made in the European Union by Multitrance, which trades from Diemen in the Netherlands. The extract is cannabidiol isolate, so the intended cannabinoid content is cannabidiol alone with no THC carried through.

Documentation is where this range is weak, and we are going to be blunt about it. The manufacturer publishes no lab results, no third-party certification and no potency verification for MediCBD anywhere we could find. Three separate retailers selling the gum refer to certificates of analysis or to lab-tested quality, and not one of them shows a certificate. We are not going to describe a document we have not seen, so the honest statement is that no certificate of analysis is published for this range and we have asked our distributor for the per-batch paperwork.

Novel Foods is the more serious open question. Gum, gummy bears and teabags are all ingestible, which puts every MediCBD line squarely inside the Food Standards Agency's novel foods regime for cannabidiol. Only products linked to a validated or progressing application belong on the market as ingestible cannabidiol.

A free-text search of the FSA's public register of cannabidiol products returns no entries for MediCBD, Multitrance, Astra Hemp or Bubbly Billy Buds. That is a fact about a name search, and it needs its caveat stated properly: entries on that register are filed under the applicant's own product and supplier naming, which often differs from the label a shopper sees, so an empty search is not proof that a product sits outside the regime. It is a question we cannot close from the outside.

So that is our position, plainly. This is an unresolved compliance question on an ingestible range, we have raised it with our distributor, and it will be settled before the range opens to orders rather than after. If it cannot be settled, these lines do not go out. We would rather tell you that now than have you read a page that quietly says nothing about it, which is what every other page selling this brand currently does.

Ingredients, allergens and one regulatory oddity

The gum is sugar-free and sweetened with sorbitol, isomalt, maltitol syrup, acesulfame K and sucralose. The gum base contains soy lecithin, which is an allergen and which no listing we found flags as one. If soy is a problem for you, that matters more than anything else on this page.

The rest of the list runs to glycerol as a humectant, gum arabic as a thickener, hemp essential oil, cannabidiol oil, carnauba wax as a glazing agent, the colours E171 and E141ii, and E321 as an antioxidant. That list comes from a UK retailer rather than from the brand, and formulations do change, so read the pack that arrives rather than trusting a web page.

One item on it is genuinely interesting. E171 is titanium dioxide, and it has been prohibited as a food additive across the European Union since August 2022, after the European Food Safety Authority concluded its use could no longer be considered safe. It remains a permitted food additive in Great Britain under retained legislation, because the Food Standards Agency reviewed the same evidence and identified no safety concern, so England and Wales did not follow the EU. Northern Ireland does follow EU rules.

Two things follow from that, and neither is a scare. The additive is lawful in the part of the world where you are buying it, which is the question that actually affects you. And the boilerplate on the retail listings claiming this gum is one hundred per cent legal for consumption in the European Union sits awkwardly next to the brand's own ingredient list, which is a small illustration of why an EU legality claim is not much use to a British buyer.

Where MediCBD is strong, and where it is not

Strong: format coverage at a stated strength. Gum, gummy bears and pyramid tea, each with a milligram figure printed on it, from one label. Its own sibling brands do not all manage that, and the Astra Hemp tea in particular carries no cannabidiol figure at all.

Strong: the gum is a properly dosed product rather than a token one. At 17mg in a single piece it delivers a real amount of cannabidiol, which is more than can be said for a number of infused sweets that print a large number on the pack and divide it across fifty pieces.

Strong: isolate, so there is no THC to think about and none of the per-container arithmetic that full spectrum products require.

Weaker: no documentation. No certificate of analysis is published for any line in this range by anyone, while three retailers cite certificates they do not show. For an ingestible product that is the wrong way round.

Weaker: the Novel Foods question above is open, and on an ingestible range that is the most consequential unknown on this page.

Weaker: it is not an independent brand, so if you came here wanting something other than Multitrance you have not found it. Three of the labels beside it on our shelves come out of the same building.

Weaker: the labelling convention changes between products in the same range. The gum prints a per-piece figure and the gummy bears and tea print pack totals, with nothing on any label to tell you which you are reading. That is how a 17mg piece gets mistaken for a 17mg pack.

Weaker, and this one is ours: our own gum listings record the per-piece strength against a pack quantity of one, so they do not tell you how many pieces arrive. We are confirming that with our distributor.

Weaker: two of the eight sellable options are unavailable as things stand, the Strawberry gummy bears and the Green Tea.

Weaker: a single distributor supplies all of it, so availability rests on one route.

Who should not buy this: anyone avoiding soy, because the gum base contains soy lecithin. Anyone who wants to read a lab report before they consume something, because there is not one to read. Anyone wanting a higher dose, where Hempthy and Orange County both go very much further. And anyone who wants a brand that is genuinely separate from Multitrance.

Where MediCBD sits under UK law

The listings selling this brand say it is one hundred per cent legal for consumption in the European Union. The United Kingdom is not in the European Union, so that sentence tells a British buyer nothing at all, and one retailer prints it on the same page as a claim of full UK compliance.

The actual UK test for a consumer cannabidiol product is one milligram of controlled cannabinoids, meaning THC, THCV and CBN combined, in the container. Not a percentage, not a figure per dose, not a figure per serving. The whole container. A percentage limit you may have seen quoted belongs to the rules governing how much THC a growing hemp crop may contain under a Home Office cultivation licence, and it has never been the test for anything sold to a person.

MediCBD is made with cannabidiol isolate, which is the grade least likely to trouble that limit, since isolate is refined to cannabidiol alone. That is a reasonable expectation rather than a verified fact, because as set out above there is no published certificate confirming it for any line in this range.

Separately, and more importantly for an ingestible: cannabidiol gum, gummies and tea all fall under the FSA novel foods regime, and that question is open here. Vapes and topicals sit outside novel foods, but nothing in the MediCBD range is a vape or a topical.

Everything on this page is for over eighteens only. Nothing here is sold or described as acting on any condition, and we make no claim about what it does.

Buying MediCBD in the UK

There are British retailers selling this brand, so availability is not the problem. Information is.

The pages currently selling MediCBD in the UK run to roughly three hundred words each, carry no tables, answer no questions, publish no certificate, give no guidance on how much to take, and state the law of a jurisdiction we left. The manufacturer's own brand page is the longest thing written about MediCBD anywhere and it contains no legality section at all.

What we have added: who actually owns this brand and which three labels on our own shelves share its factory. The arithmetic behind the strength printed on the gum, and the three incompatible ways the trade is currently reading it. The per-piece figures set against the FSA's daily advice. The soy allergen nobody flags. The correct UK legal test rather than an EU claim. And an open compliance question that makes this range harder for us to sell, not easier.

We stock the alternatives too, so when Hempthy suits you better on strength or Orange County suits you better on range, we will say so and point you there.

If our distributor supplies the certificates and closes the novel foods question, this page changes to record it. If it does not, these lines will not go out at all.