HalalCBD Is The First Company To Create CBD Products With Halal Certification

There’s long been a gap in the cannabis market, where most products do not meet the standards and moral beliefs of religions and other spiritual practices. One company decided to change that with the first-ever halal-certified cannabis products, designed to be safe for topical use and ingestion for the Muslim community. 

The Nevada-based company is HalalCBD, and CEO Fareed Syed wants to make clear that although CBD is derived from the cannabis plant, the cannabinoid is 100% halal. Syed has been challenged with some backlash from Muslims worried about whether they would be breaking their own moral belief by using a chemical derived from a plant that’s seen as haram. 

“We saw a gap in the industry. There were a lot of claims, sometimes unethical claims” about whether CBD is actually a beneficial supplement, Syed told Salaam Gateway. But it helps that all products under the HalalCBD company are halal-certified by the American Halal Foundation. 

Syed prides himself on his company creating “the first superior halal-certified CBD brand. All-natural ingredients, locally grown hemp and 100% made in the USA,” reports Salaam Gateway. These products come in the form of CBD extracts, gummies, and topicals. 

Syed added that “Ingredients are a major factor when it comes to manufacturing CBD and halal products.” Creating a food or product that’s halal is a pretty complex process, as it calls for deeply analyzing each ingredient and its origin to see if it’s truly “following halal standards.”

The core of these standards is to keep the individual from becoming intoxicated, but CBD is known to be a non-psychoactive compound that’s been promoted for its medical benefits like pain relief, relaxation, anti-inflammation, and more. So anyone purchasing a product from HalalCBD can trust that it will not cause a high or contain THC. 

That said, Syed noted how his company might be looking into creating products “that have a small amount of THC,” but that likely will not gain halal certification seeing as it could contradict a Muslim person’s lifestyle choices. 

For now, the CBD oil by the company is first extracted by the cannabis plant and added into a mixture of coconut oil or hemp seed oil. It’s quite common for CBD to make its way into other ingestible products or even topicals. But the main goal for Syed’s HalalCBD is making sure the community remains educated on how CBD remains a safe and healthy form of alternative medicine.