FULCRUM DC Investigates: Basically All Of Amazon's "CBD Oils" Are Fake, Scams

FULCRUM Research has concluded its investigation into the many purported CBD oil brands sold on Amazon, often at roughly 50% or less than the retail prices given on the web sites of leading cannabidiol — or CBD — oil sold in the United States, which became legal after the 2017 passage of the Congressional farm bill, as long as it is hemp-derived CBD product.

CBD: abundantly sold online, and legally since 2017 in the USA — yet Amazon doesn't sell real CBD, so buyer beware. What you’re getting is likely CBD-devoid hemp seed oil.

These brands market themselves as “broad spectrum hemp oils” and similar terms on Amazon, yet the Amazon.com sales terms expressly prohibit the sale of CBD products — so what are people buying? When you look closely at the stated ingredients lists, most are “hemp seed oils” — a bit more like olive oil than CBD isolate, being derived from the extracted hemp seed oil, which has almost none of the CBD and other cannabinoids found in significant quantity only later on, during the cannabis plant’s flowering stage.

In deceptively marketing these oils, unscrupulous sellers are making a fortune selling grocery store hemp oil for $20 to $50 per vial, Amazon is drawing away market share from legitimate CBD manufacturers in the USA, and consumers are getting a significantly or completely devoid of CBD product, thinking it contains chemically significant quantities of CBD.

In the US, leading online brands of CBD include Green Roads and CBD Living. At the moment, do not assume any hemp oil sold on Amazon contains any noted amount of CBD, as their strictly enforced terms prohibit CBD products — Amazon sellers are, instead, using deceptive wording and subtle marketing visuals to imply their hemp seed oils are a potentially CBD containing product.