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(20 Sep 2020) LEAD IN :   Hong Kong's first and only cannabis-related products café has opened its doors. Cannabis is not legal in Hong Kong, but the café is using CBD, or cannabidiol, in compliance with local laws.   STORY-LINE: This is the Found cafe - the outlet offers food and drink and more, all with CBD – cannabidiol. Cannabis or marijuana contains hundreds of chemicals, including cannabinoids such as THC and CBD, a popular ingredient with unproven health claims. CBD is part of the cannabis plant, without the psychoactive, or intoxicating aspect, yet with claimed medicinal properties. It's different from the THC part of the Cannabis plant which is the psychoactive ingredient that gets you high. THC stands for tetrahydro-cannabinol. This new café offers a wide range of CBD products – not only their coffee and biscuits, but also beer, fruit juice and a traditional festival treat in Hong Kong – mooncakes for the celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival. On top of that there are CBD personal care and health products like oils, pills, body cream and lotions, and even oils to rub on your dogs and cats, and CBD dog biscuits to help man's best friend make it through the day. Fiachra Mullen is co-founder of Altum Asia Limited, a Perth-based distributor of cannabinoid products for the Asia-Pacific market, which set up Found Café. He thinks Hong Kong is a good place to start the CBD business in Asia and China.    "Hong Kong is actually one of Asia's most progressive cannabinoid markets, unlike other parts of the region - Australia, New Zealand, Singapore – it's actually quite a progressive cannabinoid law in Hong Kong, so we can sell most cannabinoids in Hong Kong as foods as long as we don't have any THC in the products. Additionally, Hong Kong has a great mix of international and Chinese parts of culture and we felt like it was a great place to introduce CBD to China for the first time" he says. According to its Mullen, the café hopes to break down the stigma surrounding products including CBD. "Recreational use of cannabis is very different to the therapeutic or lifestyle use of CBD. So, everything we do as a business is to make it a separate conversation, including from how we talk about the products, to the imagery we use, and the branding we pursue. We like to have conversations about CBD rather than cannabis, and we like to distance CBD from cannabis and the recreational use of drugs," he adds.    CBD is only legal in Hong Kong if it contains 0% trace of THC (Tethrahydrocannabinol), the psychoactive substance from cannabis.     Altum Asia Limited imports CBD branded products from US company LIFE, which claims they have a greater than 99% purity of CBD.     Altum has also got local craft beer brewery Young Master to use its imported CBD ingredient to make beer. The brand name "hea" (pronounced in English like the word "hair") which means relax in Cantonese, started selling in the consumer market a month ago and its first batch was quickly sold out.     Stella Lo, the beer's Brand Ambassador thinks beer and CBD are a good match.    "I think that craft beer and CBD are both lifestyle products. You know, when you drink a beer, you want to "hea", you want to chill with your friends, you want to enjoy it, same as taking CBD. You want that destress, calm and very relaxed moment," Lo says.    Killian Hussey, originally from Ireland who now works in finance in the city, thinks CBD coffee helps him get through a day.    Canadian Linda Liu, working in the technology industry, likes CBD to help her relax after a busy day. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...