FEATURE
Vapouround CBD’s Róisín Delaney meets Lancaster-based
lifelong friends who turned a mutual interest into a business. CBD
Hemporium founders Martin Smith and Andrew Wilson talk about
their CBD journeys, how one of them was once a sceptic and the
road to becoming a top British brand.
Q: Were you sceptical of CBD when you
first encountered it?
Andrew: “Very, to be honest. I had heard
murmurings of medical cannabis and CBD in
America early 2010s, maybe 2011 or 2012,
but in truth I had no idea of the potential. If
I am honest, I naively thought it was just a
ploy to push the legalisation issue – pretty
ashamed to admit that but that’s the truth.
It wasn’t until a family member became ill
and we were looking at natural alternative
therapies that I really starting researching what
CBD cannabis oil was, which to say was an eye
opening process is an understatement.”
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Martin: “That’s how we got into the industry.
At this point we didn’t know too much about
CBD specifically, but it was at that point that
we started learning more and more about
it. We just started learning more from there.
Andy’s always been interested in natural
medicine and therapies and leading a really
healthy lifestyle, so it was kind of that angle
like ‘Wow, this is something pretty amazing,
let’s start looking into it as something that we
can do together.’”