cbdMD review: broad spectrum, and now THC too

What the company sells

Broad spectrum is the house style

Broad spectrum means the plant’s other cannabinoids and terpenes are kept and the THC is removed in an extra processing step. In principle it is the best of both: whatever the rest of the plant contributes, without the compound that causes problems at work.

In practice "broad spectrum" is not a defined standard, and the extra step is another place for a label to be wrong. What turns it from a claim into a fact is a certificate showing THC as a number, from the batch you have.

The THCV products are worth a note

What the testing says

Checked in September 2026, the company describes its products as independently lab tested and USA grown, with a GMP certification claim and a lab results link in the site footer. GMP is a manufacturing standard rather than a product test, and the two are often presented together as though they were the same assurance.

What could not be confirmed from the published material is whether the certificates can be looked up by the batch code on a specific container. That is the check that matters most, and it is the one this category most often leaves out.

How this review was done

What a certificate should carry

The same five things, on any brand:

• Cannabinoid content, with THC as a number rather than the phrase "THC free".
• Residual solvents left by extraction.
• Heavy metals, which hemp draws readily from soil.
• Pesticides, on an agricultural crop.
• A batch code and a date that match the container you were sent.

The last one is where most brands fall down. A page of laboratory reports is not the same as being able to look up your bottle, and the difference is the whole point of the document.

Sponsorship, and what it is worth

This is a brand that spends heavily on sponsorship, particularly in sport. It is worth stating plainly that sponsorship is marketing: it says a company has a budget, not that a product has been tested, and it has no bearing on the certificates.

For athletes specifically, the relevant facts are elsewhere on this site: CBD is permitted, every other cannabinoid is not, and a brand that also sells delta-9 products is a shop where reading the label matters more than usual.

Reading any CBD brand in five minutes

The same five checks separate every company in this category, and they take about as long as reading a product description.

A company that answers all five is not necessarily selling a product that works — nothing on a label can tell you that. It is selling one you can check, which on this shelf is the difference worth paying for.

Who it suits

Somebody who wants broad spectrum specifically, and who likes a range organised by purpose rather than by chemistry. The strength options are wide enough to find a sensible per-serving number rather than taking two of something small.

It suits less well anybody who wants the simplest possible shelf: a shop selling CBD, delta-9 and THCV side by side asks more attention from a buyer than one that sells only CBD.