Medalchemy: two strains in Polish pharmacies and what is not known about them

Who is this producer and where does their raw material come from?

The name Medalchemy appears in Polish databases with two entries of dried flower, and the raw material is said to come from Portugal. The company of this name operates near Alicante and is part of the Curaleaf group, but no open source directly connects the Spanish facility with the products introduced into the Polish market.

Medalchemy was established as a spin-off of the University of Alicante and is based in the local science park. In May 2021, the university announced that the company had joined the international Curaleaf group along with the acquired EMMAC Life Sciences. The group today describes its own cultivation in Portugal as the first licensed in the country, yet neither the name of the facility nor a list of markets for which this cultivation operates is provided on its website.

The Polish service BudCare announced both products in mid-August 2026, stating that they are going to wholesalers in ten-gram packages and that the dried flower comes from Portugal. Another Polish service repeats the country of origin for one of the products and does not provide it for the other.

The statement about Portugal is therefore the only information about the origin of the raw material published by anyone, and there is neither the name of the plantation nor the permit number under it. Who conducts the cultivation, who packages the dried flower into pharmacy packaging, and who is responsible for both products to the Polish office remains undetermined. This is not a gap in this text, but rather the state of the description of this producer as of August 2026.

Which strains from this producer are available in Polish pharmacies?

Two: Wedding Pop Triangle and Zookies. Both entered the wholesalers in August 2026 in ten-gram packages and each has one commercial entry in the Polish inventory. No other producer currently supplies these two cultivars, so a patient looking for them in a pharmacy has no alternative.

The catalog of the two products places this producer in the lowest group of the Polish market. In the ranking where this cluster stands, sixteen suppliers share eighty-five cultivars, with the largest having thirty-eight. Medalchemy has two, and both are available exclusively from them.

Both products are led by the same aromatic compound, caryophyllene. In this catalog, this is not the rule: among suppliers with more than one strain, only two have their entire assortment built around one compound, while the profiles of others diverge. However, with two products, it is hard to call this a purchasing decision, as two hits out of six possible happen by themselves.

A separate discussion gathers the lineage and profile of the strain Wedding Pop Triangle, drugie robi to samo dla odmiany Zookies, and the compound leading both positions has its own entry. The current pharmacy assortment includes a summary of available strains. Store category drought includes products available without a prescription and does not contain pharmaceutical raw material.

How does this producer's raw material differ from others?

Formally, nothing that could be read from the registration label. Both items are listed under the name Cannabis flos with the declared content and without the company name, which occurs only for these two in a comparison of one hundred and forty-six entries from one database. The strain name is not part of this designation and never has been.

The Registration Office explained this entry in June 2024 at an industry meeting dedicated to the approval of raw materials for the preparation of prescription medications. The proprietary name of the raw material is the name from the pharmacopoeial monograph, and the monograph Cannabis flos specifies the type, species, and author, not the strain. In the same presentation, it was stated that the approval procedure assesses only quality, without clinical and non-clinical parts, so the authority has no legal basis to verify the declared effect.

The absence of the company name in the designation does not determine anything in this regard. The same form of entry, namely Cannabis flos with declared content without a manufacturer, appears in the pharmacy catalog next to an item for which the responsible entity is the German company Four 20 Pharma. Therefore, the assignment of the item to the manufacturer comes from the database that describes it, not from the label on the registration. how to read the strain profile.

Besides that, no differences are visible. The packaging weighs ten grams, just like most items in this comparison, and the cultivation and processing process is not described anywhere where it could be compared with another supplier's process.

What is known, and what is not known about this manufacturer's raw material?

From the documentation, it is known as much as must be included in the application: the place of series control and the manufacturer releasing the series, each with permission and a good manufacturing practice certificate. Publicly, there is nothing from this. The rest of the description of both items comes from one strain database and has not been confirmed by another.

None of the two Polish services describing profiles provides the test result for these items. The strain page shows thumbnails labeled as detailed studies, but there is no file or link to the result beneath them. A document of this kind accompanies the delivery to the pharmacy, so its absence online does not mean it does not exist. It only means that the person filling the prescription has no way to view it beforehand.

The shares of aromatic components provided by the database sum up for both items exactly to one hundred. In one hundred and forty-five entries from the same database, such a sum occurs twelve times, the median is eighty-two, and the distribution ends are fourteen and one hundred twenty-five. Therefore, the numbers are not a measure of the share in the dried flower, but rather a breakdown of the indicated set per hundred, and that is why we do not repeat them with the names.

Two small details show how young this description is. The Polish database provides for the first strain the parents Wedding Pop and Triangle Kush, while the German services, where our pedigree graph stands, indicate Wedding Cake in this place. The availability of both items is described differently by both databases today, one as high and the other as low, and neither provides a measurement date.

What adverse effects have been reported after this manufacturer's raw material?

None. Reports of adverse effects are entered into the system under the product's batch number, not under the manufacturer's name or strain, so there is no separate statistic for these two items, and given their presence on the market since August 2026, there could not have been one yet.

Public compilations in Poland do not separate reports by manufacturers, so even after years of presence, this number would not be available separately for this company. There are also no patient descriptions to refer to, and a patient description is not a report: to become data, it must enter the monitoring system with a batch number and date.

Reports of adverse effects are collected for medicinal products with a batch number, not for the strain name, so the following pertains to hemp dried flower as a group of raw materials. The most frequently reported symptoms are dry mouth, red eyes, and increased heart rate. Dizziness upon rapid standing, daytime drowsiness, and temporary worsening of short-term memory are less frequently described, as well as anxiety that increases with dosage. A separate issue is medications taken concurrently, especially sedatives and those affecting coagulation: their assessment requires knowledge of the entire list of preparations, not just the description of the plant. We do not provide the frequency of these symptoms numerically, as public compilations for hemp dried flower in Poland do not separate them by individual products.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Medalchemy cultivate the dried flower that reaches Polish pharmacies?

It is unknown. The Polish database states that the dried flower comes from Portugal, and a company by that name operates a facility near Alicante. No open source states who conducts the cultivation and whether it belongs to the same group.

How many strains from this producer are available in Poland?

Two: Wedding Pop Triangle and Zookies, both in ten-gram packages. No other producer currently supplies these cultivars, so there is no equivalent under the same name in pharmacies.

Why does the registration designation not include the company name?

Because the proprietary name of the pharmaceutical raw material is the name from the pharmacopoeial monograph, and neither the company name nor the strain name is part of it. The assignment of the item to the manufacturer comes from the database that describes it.

Has a certificate of analysis been published for these items?

No. Neither of the two Polish strain services provides the test result for these items. The document accompanies the delivery to the pharmacy, but it cannot be viewed before the prescription is filled.

Have adverse effects been reported after using this producer's raw material?

There are no such data. Reports are collected under the batch number of the medicinal product, and public compilations in Poland do not separate them by manufacturers.

How do we know what the aromatic profile of these two strains is?

From a single strain base. The second Polish service describing profiles does not have entries for these items, so the description cannot be independently verified.

Dried flower is a pharmaceutical raw material issued exclusively by a doctor's prescription in the Rpw category and is not a product available for free sale.

The material is for informational purposes, describes the state of available data, and does not replace a conversation with a doctor or pharmacist.

Editorial text: u Bucha editorial.