UK Cannabis store, The Brain Box Shop - www.thebrainboxshop.co.uk - has permanently and officially closed following a visit by Police and Trading standards and a long tough battle to remain open.
The Brain Box Shop - situated in High Street - opened in August last year after selling cannabidiol (CBD) and hemp-based products online for several months.
Local police said the visit to the CBD shop was part of "Operation Hazardia" which, as well as being aimed at other cannabis suspects, aimed to work with a range of colleagues and partners to detect and prevent further crime.
The Brain Box Shop UK Hemp Flower Closed Following Police Raid And Trading Standards Visit
One of the store owners, Karol Cegla, said police and trading standards visited the store last Friday afternoon, adding that he felt they were expecting to find cannabis was being sold from the shop. He said he wasn't sure if it was a full raid as police didn't take everything, just samples, adding that they were now waiting for the test results to come back. Mr Cegla said trading standards told them they needed to do an inspection of the products they were selling and needed samples of their products such as the hemp flowers or teas.
TheBrainBoxShop UK CBD Flower Shop Fought Hard To Remain Open
Further info from the initial report here: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/high-street-swansea-shop-selling-16095183
TheBrainBoxShop CBD Hemp Flower
It's sad to see the cannabis niche store permanently closed, especially given the fact that medicinal cannabis uses can now access cancards which reportedly stop any police action, and specialists can now offer high strength cannabis on prescription. The Brain Box Shop exclusively had cannabis flowers with less than 0.2% THC, making it no more psychoactive than UK limit CBD oils which are perfectly legal and sold in shops across the country.
Backed By 'Anna Money' UK Bank
The Brain Box Shop were seemingly backed by UK bank Anna Money according to this online article. Following a tough struggle to find UK CBD merchants according to their many Facebook posts over the past few years, TBBS reportedly found one in Anna Money, shortly before their cannabis niche store was hit with a visit by the police and UK trading standards. More info on that here:
Where Can I Buy CBD Flowers In The UK
Additionally, The Brain Box Shop aren't the only ones in the UK selling CBD flower as legal as many remain unchallenged by UK laws and trading standards.
Here's a list of the best UK cannabis flower shops where you can buy CBD buds in the UK: https://www.properkushty.co.uk/post/the-10-best-uk-cbd-hemp-flower-shops
Sadly, the shop is gone, their instagram (@tbbs420) and Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TBBS420) are now deleted. It doesn't appear at this point that they will reopen.
TBBS UK Cannabis Flower & Edibles
They sold CBD oils, CBD edibles, CBD hemp flower and CBG, alongside smoke supplies including rolling papers, herbal tobacco, terpenes and bongs.
Will the laws change sufficiently for The Brain Box Shop to reopen?
We hope quickly, so the wonderful power of hemp can further benefit the UK.
The cat is out of the bag regarding the medicinal benefits of CBD, and these shops don't deserve to be closed down in my opinion - certainly if they maintain independent lab reports for their products and keep THC limits under 0.2%.
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