How Israel Became the Global Leader in Cannabis Research
Israeli researchers have explored the plant’s seemingly limitless beneficial uses for decades while the US remained stubbornly in a prohibition dark age. Source: Dispensaries Dot Com As the United States struggles with the basics of cannabis research, such as providing proper cannabis to researchers, other countries have leap ahead. One of the foremost is Israel, […]
Top 10 New Studies: Effects of Cannabis
Eve RipleyI Every year, researchers discover more about marijuana and its effects. Celebrate 4/20 this year by learning what we know about cannabis in 2019 that we didn’t know at the beginning of 2018. 1. Cannabis Users Have a Better Chance of Surviving a Heart Attack Brief Overview: After comparing the hospital records of more […]
France: Collective Calls on Patients to Integrate their Voice in the Public Debate on Medical Cannabis
Camille Lezaun The creation by the ANSM (National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products) of a Scientific Committee (CSST) on the issue of therapeutic cannabis in France has raised hopes for regulation. Many patients are already treated with cannabis and, lacking legal access and control, self-medicate by providing themselves on the black […]
10 European Startups Innovating in the CBD Cannabis Market
Mary Loritz Cannabis regulation in the EU remains a patchwork of local and national regulations. In some respects the marijuana market is already mature. In Austria, for example, it is legal to grow marijuana so long as the THC-containing buds are not sold, so the country has a relatively developed retail and wholesale cannabis nursery […]
France Medical Cannabis: The First Consumer Federation Opens
CNEWS This is unheard of in France. The first French federation of associations of patient consumers of therapeutic cannabis, which is campaigning for its authorization, was created this Sunday, May 5th. Named Espoir Im(patient), this collective, which 25 associations have already planned to join, hopes to become “a space and a force to bring the […]
UK: First Medical Cannabis Clinic Opens
Alice Tidey Britain’s first medical cannabis clinic opened in Manchester this week despite only just four patients having successfully obtained cannabis-based treatments since their use was legalized in the country late last year. The private clinic is Manchester will deal with patients suffering from chronic pain conditions, neurological condition such as epilepsy, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s […]
Cannabis $166 Billion Market?
Marijuana may be “just a plant,” but it has Wall Street and investors seeing green and grinning ear to ear at its long-term growth potential. Long considered a taboo topic, cannabis has forced its way into the mainstream. In the United States, where favorability toward broad-based legalization stood at just 25% in 1995, an all-time […]
Oreo: Getting Ready to Produce Cannabis Based Edibles
Calvin Hughes Mondelez, maker of Oreos, Chips Ahoy cookies and Maynard candies, say they’re preparing to start making marijuana edibles. Mondelez makes a lot of pre-packaged foods that you know and love, and you’ve probably reached for some of them while in the throes of the munchies. And now Mondelez CEO Dirk Van de Put […]
Cannabis Brief: Wall Street Remains Bullish On CBD Future Revenues
A recent article titled “CBD Market Could Pull In $16 Billion By 2025, Says Study” ran on FORBES website discussing a renowned Wall Street investment bank’s view of the future revenues for the CBD market. It said: “… New York-based investment bank Cowen & Co. released a study on the CBD (cannabidiol) market. Of the […]