Multitrance Cannabis CBD Chewing Gum 17mg, box of 24

Cannabis chewing gum means two different products

The best-ranking article for the phrase cannabis chewing gum is a long piece about THC gum. It explains buccal and sublingual absorption, walks through how swallowed THC converts in the gut into a more potent metabolite, and then lists products, among which sits an Amsterdam CBD brand. It carries no legality statement anywhere.

So a UK reader arrives, learns how a THC gum works, and is shown a CBD brand inside the same article. The two are not comparable and only one of them can lawfully be sold here.

This is the other kind. It is a CBD gum. There is no THC in it, the manufacturer states zero per cent, and nothing in it is intoxicating. The cannabis in the name and in the Cannabis Sativa flavour refers to taste and to the hemp plant the CBD comes from.

We are opening with that because the search term itself is misleading, not because the product is. If you came here after reading about THC gum, this will not do what that article described, and no product sold legally in a UK shop will.

What a cannabis flavour actually is

This is the only chewing gum in our range with a cannabis-flavour option, which makes it genuinely unusual. Look across the mainstream UK CBD gum category and you will find mint, spearmint, peppermint, strawberry, mango and berry. Cannabis is not on that list anywhere.

The flavour comes from the aromatic compounds of the plant rather than from a cannabinoid. Those compounds are terpenes, the same family responsible for the smell of pine, citrus peel and hops, and they are what makes cannabis smell like cannabis. They are added for taste and they contribute nothing to the CBD content.

There is a limit to how precisely anyone can describe it, and we would rather say so than invent a tasting note. Sativa is a plant classification rather than a flavour standard, so Cannabis Sativa on a wrapper does not commit the manufacturer to any particular profile. What you can reasonably expect is herbal and green rather than sweet, closer to a strong herbal tea than to a confectionery flavour.

The alternative in this listing is Strawberry Haze, which one European retailer describes as strawberry and hemp flavoured. That is the closest thing to an official description we could find for either option, and it suggests the herbal base is present in both, with fruit layered over it in one.

If you want a gum that simply tastes of mint or fruit with no herbal character at all, the MediCBD and Astra Hemp gums we stock are the ones to look at, and they are linked below.

Two flavours, and what the strength decides

There is a quiet trade-off in this range that nobody points out. The flavour you can have depends on the strength you choose.

At 17mg, which is this listing, you can have Cannabis Sativa or Strawberry Haze. At 36mg, the same line narrows and the cannabis option is not among what we carry. So if the cannabis flavour is the reason you are here, this is the strength that has it.

Both flavours in this listing were available at the time of writing.

One honest note about the photograph. Our catalogue image for this product currently shows a eucalyptus mint pack rather than either of the two flavours actually listed. That is a data problem at our end rather than anything about the product, we have flagged it internally, and the flavour you select is the flavour you receive.

Seventeen milligrams is the blister, not the piece

A blister holds twelve pieces and 17mg of CBD in total, which works out at a little over one milligram in each piece.

That figure is being misreported in the wild, and it is worth knowing before you compare listings. One European retailer currently states 17mg of CBD in every single piece, which would make a blister twelve times stronger than it is. The same listing gives the weight of a 17g blister as one kilogram, which is a fair indication of how carefully that page was assembled.

The correct reading is straightforward. Seventeen milligrams is what the whole blister contains, and the manufacturer states it that way. A blister is a blister, not a dose.

The practical consequence is that gum is a low-milligram format by design. Anyone comparing a 17mg blister against a 17mg serving of oil is comparing two different things: one is the content of a whole pack of twelve, and the other is a single measured serving.

What to check when the box arrives

Given how much conflicting information sits on this product across the market, three checks take a few seconds and settle it before it becomes an argument.

Check whether the milligram figure on the blister is stated per blister or per piece. On this line it is per blister, and any listing telling you otherwise is wrong rather than describing a stronger version.

Check the flavour on the wrapper against the flavour you ordered. Multitrance runs several near-identical gum labels out of the same operation and the packs look alike.

Check the piece count. Twelve is what this line contains, and it is the number the 17mg figure is spread across.

If any of the three does not match, tell us. We would rather sort it than have you assume the market is simply like this.

How it sits against the other CBD gums we carry

Our gum aisle is deeper than most, and the useful way to compare it is by flavour character rather than by strength, since almost everything in it is a 17mg or 36mg blister of twelve.

This is the only one with a cannabis flavour. If that is not what you want, the rest of the range is mint and fruit, and the table below is the shortest route to the right one.

Who should buy something else

If you arrived from an article about THC gum, nothing here will resemble what you read. There is no THC in this and no UK shop can legally sell you a product that behaves the way that article described.

If you dislike herbal flavours, do not buy the Cannabis Sativa. It is the point of the product rather than a background note, and Strawberry Haze still carries the same base underneath the fruit. The mint gums we stock have no herbal character at all.

If you want a meaningful milligram figure in a single piece, gum is the wrong format across the board. A little over a milligram a piece is where this category sits, and an oil or a gummy gives you a far clearer relationship between one serving and one number.

And if you only want to try it, this listing is a full trade box of twenty-four blisters. Ask us before committing to that quantity rather than finding out you dislike the flavour twenty-three blisters too late.