RESPONSE TO THE ATTACK ON OUR INTEGRITY BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE CANNABINOID INDUSTRY
Those who have followed our observations on the CBD Health products market for the last 6 years will be aware that we don’t hide behind Paywalls, that we don’t charge membership fees for nebulous benefits and that we call out deceit and hypocrisy where we see it – especially where it is being deployed for the direct gain of an individual or organization which that individual represents.
We acknowledge that we do not devote time to challenging every transgression that we see – you just can’t – but we pride ourselves in shining a light on the most overt self aggrandising instances, or those which have the potential for most harm if an industry participant were to believe what they read.
It was in this context that on 7th September 2023 we posted to LinkedIn the observations to be found in Appendix 1 to this document. The post was in response to the flurry of media activity in respect of the Association for the Cannabinoid Industry’s Press Release and the media coverage on the same.
On 8th September 2023 we noted that the Association had responded to our observations (see Appendix 2 hereto) with an attack on our integrity. We have chosen to respond to this attack (we are not thin-skinned and could have ignored it) because we believe that the attack itself is a prime manifestation of what happens when an organization consists of 90% Spin and Lobbying and only 10% substance (and some might say we are being generous).
WHAT ARE WE BEING ACCUSED OF?
You will see that we are being accused of telling “a number of easily identifiable untruths”. We read that as we are being called “liars” because it is hard to understand anything else by it and it is a pity that the authors are unable to remove themselves from their Spin-mastery ways and can’t help other than alighting on an underhand way of calling someone a liar when there is a perfectly good word for that which they seek to allege. In this response we will use the word “lie”, for that is the allegation and we do not recoil from its use or shirk from responding to it.
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