Montu is Australia's largest medical cannabis company. It imports and supplies prescription medical cannabis products, and owns the Alternaleaf telehealth clinic. It is not an over-the-counter shop — you cannot browse it and add an oil to a cart the way you would at CBD Oil Adelaide. If you're in Adelaide and you want over-the-counter CBD oil you can order online without a consultation or prescription, that sits on an entirely separate path. For that, there's CBD Oil Adelaide, an online CBD oil shop that dispatches across Adelaide CBD, Glenelg, Norwood, Prospect and the rest of SA.
This review is independent. CBD Oil Adelaide is a separate Australian shop selling its own over-the-counter CBD oil range — it is not Montu, is not affiliated with it, and is not a medical-cannabis company, clinic or prescriber. Montu's own businesses operate on its official site.
What Montu is
Montu is a Melbourne-based health-technology company founded in 2019. Rather than operating as a single store, it works along the supply chain: it imports and distributes prescription medical cannabis products, and has built a family of connected brands that each handle a different part of the journey from doctor to patient.
The arrangement is worth mapping out, because it shapes every comparison. At the supply end, Montu imports the products and moves them through wholesale distribution via Leafio, its pharmacy-supply arm. Dispensing and pharmacy fulfilment is handled by uMeds. On the patient-facing side sits Alternaleaf, the telehealth clinic Montu owns, which arranges prescriptions after a consultation with a registered practitioner. Saged, the fourth brand, provides accredited education for healthcare professionals. Taken together, Montu is a business-to-business importer and distributor with a patient-facing clinic attached — the company behind the supply and the prescribing, not a shop you visit for an over-the-counter purchase.
How the prescription route works
A patient who goes through Alternaleaf (or a similar clinic) follows a regulated pathway: book an initial nurse consultation, then a doctor reviews your history and, if clinically appropriate, sets a care plan that may include a prescription medical cannabis product. That product is supplied and dispensed through the company's distribution and fulfilment network, under ongoing medical oversight. Practitioners are listed on AHPRA and hold TGA authorisations.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration oversees this framework. Products that travel through the prescription route can include THC, and the whole process — from consult to dispensing — is governed by that regulatory structure, as set out on the TGA website.
Prescription medical cannabis and over-the-counter CBD oil are separate things
This distinction matters, so it is worth stating plainly. What Montu's ecosystem prescribes is prescription medical cannabis — accessed through a doctor, behind a script, with ongoing oversight. Over-the-counter CBD oil is a separate category altogether.
In 2021, the TGA down-scheduled low-dose cannabidiol (up to 150 mg a day) to a pharmacist-only medicine, and hemp-derived CBD oil is also sold online as a composition-described product that requires no consultation. The two pathways have different rules, different products, and different starting points. We don't frame our shop as a stand-in for a medical assessment or a prescription — a doctor and a clinic are the route for that. We simply sell over-the-counter CBD oil to people in Adelaide who want that specific product, described by what is in it.
From our CBD oil range
Pet CBD Oil 2000mg — Full Spectrum (50ml)
Spec: cannabidiol, full-spectrum, pet-formulated, 2000mg per 50ml bottle at 40mg/ml in an MCT carrier, trace THC under 0.3%. The same hemp source as our human range, without human-targeted flavours or sweeteners. Imported from EU Labs; best introduced under guidance from your vet.
CBD Oil 6000mg — Broad Spectrum (50ml)
Spec: cannabidiol, broad-spectrum, 6000mg per 50ml bottle at 120mg/ml in an MCT carrier, 0% THC. A high-concentration whole-plant hemp extract with the THC removed and the supporting compounds retained. Imported from EU Labs.
CBN Oil 6000mg — Cannabinol (50ml)
Spec: cannabinol, THC-free isolate, 6000mg per 50ml bottle at 120mg/ml in an MCT carrier, 0% THC. A high-concentration CBN oil; cannabinol is the aged-hemp cannabinoid, isolated and carried in MCT. Imported from EU Labs.
Buying over-the-counter CBD oil in Adelaide
CBD Oil Adelaide is an online CBD oil shop — no clinic, no consultation, no script. Every oil in the range is described by its composition: cannabinoid, spectrum, strength in milligrams, and carrier oil. Orders ship across Adelaide CBD, Glenelg, Norwood, Prospect and the rest of SA in plain Australian dollars.
If you want the full plant profile, the full-spectrum CBD oil retains the legal trace of THC (under 0.3%). If you would rather have none at all, the broad-spectrum CBD oil has THC removed. Beyond cannabidiol there are two single-cannabinoid oils: CBG oil, which is cannabigerol, and a THC-free CBN oil, a cannabinol isolate. There is also a pet CBD oil made for animals.
Every product is hemp extract in a coconut-derived MCT carrier, bottled at 50 ml, third-party lab-tested by batch with a Certificate of Analysis available on request, and priced from $89.95. The oils are imported from EU Labs in Amsterdam and dispatched within Australia. The full range and prices for Adelaide are in one place on the shop.
What to weigh before you compare
A prescription company and an OTC shop serve two different starting questions, so the practical comparison is about which question you are asking:
- A prescription route (Montu's ecosystem) — you want a registered doctor to assess you and, if clinically suitable, prescribe; this can include THC products and involves ongoing medical oversight, supplied and dispensed through the company's distribution and fulfilment network. It starts with a consultation and a prescription.
- An over-the-counter shop (CBD Oil Adelaide) — you want to buy hemp-derived CBD oil directly, described by spectrum, milligrams and carrier, without a consultation. It starts and ends with the product.
Neither replaces the other. The prescription route is the one to take if a medical assessment is what you want. If it's the over-the-counter product you are after, the how-to-use guide explains how to read a CBD oil label and measure a serving.
Common questions about Montu and CBD oil in Adelaide
Is Montu a shop? No. Montu is a medical cannabis company that imports prescription products and runs the Alternaleaf clinic. You do not buy from it over the counter the way you would from an online CBD oil shop.
Is Montu the same as Alternaleaf? No — Alternaleaf is the telehealth clinic, and Montu is the larger company that owns it, along with its supply, distribution, dispensing and education brands. Alternaleaf is one part of the Montu group.
Do I need a prescription to buy CBD oil in Adelaide? Not for over-the-counter, hemp-derived CBD oil from a shop such as CBD Oil Adelaide. The prescription route — Montu's ecosystem — is for prescription products, which is a separate pathway.
What is the difference between Montu and CBD Oil Adelaide? Montu is a medical cannabis company: import, supply, a telehealth clinic, prescriptions, products that can include THC. CBD Oil Adelaide is an over-the-counter CBD oil shop: full-spectrum, broad-spectrum, CBG, CBN and pet oils, bought directly and shipped across SA to Adelaide CBD, Glenelg, Norwood, Prospect, from $89.95.
Is CBD oil legal in SA? Yes, within the national framework: low-dose cannabidiol is pharmacist-only, and other or higher-strength products require a prescription. We describe our oils by composition only and make no health claims. The rules are set out on the TGA website.
Where can I buy over-the-counter CBD oil in Adelaide? Online, from an Australian shop such as CBD Oil Adelaide — the full range and prices for Adelaide and SA are together in one place.
If a doctor's assessment and a prescription are what you are after, that is what Montu's clinic side is designed for. If you simply want to buy over-the-counter CBD oil in Adelaide — described plainly by composition and shipped from within Australia — browse the full CBD oil range, lab-tested by batch, delivered across SA.
