A handful of states could pass significant medical marijuana reforms this year, providing for additional licensing opportunities and potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in new sales for existing operators and ancillary services.
Here’s a summary of five key states to watch:
U.S., August 21, 2019 (INDEPENDENT)- A cannabis chemical may have a “major impact” in the treatment of pancreatic cancer, according to a new study.
Pancreatic cancer has a five-year survival rate of just nine per cent, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS), and is expected to be the second leading cause of cancer deaths...
U.S, April 29, 2020 (HEMPINDUSTRYDAILY) Hemp industry advocates have long heralded the sustainable benefits of hemp production and the crop’s ability to right past wrongs by replenishing the soil and, by extension, the earth. 3-ways-hemp-farmers-can-promote-earth-friendly-cultivation
But hemp is still a crop that needs...
U.S. September 5, 2019 (GREENENTRENEUR)- If there was an election in cannabis, women would vote for health and wellness products over anything else. They also prefer flower and vape pens to prerolls and capsules.
These are just some of the findings in Headset’s Cannabis Data Intelligence, which provides insight into the...
UK, July 29 , 2019 (INDEPENDENT)- A group of cross-party MPs said the UK could completely legalise cannabis use within a decade following a research trip to Canada.
Labour’s David Lammy, the Liberal Democrats’ Sir Norman Lamb and Conservative MP Jonathan Djanogly visited the country to study the legal weed market, set up after the drug was decriminalised there last year.
The Tottenham...
U.S, June 18, 2020 (MERRYJANE) The bill will expand the availability of social equity cannabis business licenses and allow the governor to mass-pardon every Colorado resident convicted of possessing two ounces of weed or less.
A new Colorado cannabis social equity bill...
U.S, April 8, 2020 (GREEENTREPRENEUR) While cannabis business owners are raking in profits, many workers on the frontlines are left vulnerable and without proper protection.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, states across the country have declared cannabis an essential business. The move...
CANADA, February 3, 2021 (HEMPGAZETTE) Canada-headquartered Tilray has announced Portugal’s national healthcare regulator has provided authorisation for the company to sell its medical cannabis products in that country.
Legislation was signed into law in 2018 to allow for medicinal use of cannabis in Portugal, which...
VANCOUVER, May 25, 2020 - PRESS RELEASE - (CANNABISBUSINESSTIMES) Village Farms International, Inc. has announced that its majority-owned joint venture for large-scale, low-cost, high-quality cannabis production, Pure Sunfarms, has received from Health Canada its cannabis cultivation sales license based on an initial production area within its...
A hemp farm in Australia is reportedly on the nose, with its odour causing problems for some local residents.
The ABC reports some residents living close to a trial hemp crop in Red Cliffs, Victoria are reporting headaches resulting from the smell – but others say...