Canada: Blew its Chance to be Cannabis World Leader
Kristine Owram Canada “blew it” on cannabis legalization and is rapidly losing ground to the U.S. as a result, according to the founder of one of the top investment banks to the industry. A lack of policy innovation, a messy patchwork of provincial regulations and severe restrictions on marketing and branding have left Canadian pot […]
Cannabis Market from a Criminalized Drug to a Multi Billion-Dollar Boom
Cannabis has gone from a criminalized drug to a multibillion-dollar global boom in just a few years. Here’s everything you need to know about the emerging legal cannabis industry. Jeremy Berke Cannabis is the world’s newest and most dynamic industry, borne out of close to a century of illicit trade. Legal cannabis is one of […]
Israeli Association of Cannabis Medicine June 2019
US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D): Plan for National Cannabis Legalization
Sara Boboltz Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) unveiled a plan on Wednesday that would legalize recreational and medical marijuana, expunge all nonviolent marijuana convictions and “tap into the medical and economic opportunity” of the drug. “Fundamentally, whether adults use marijuana is a matter of privacy, and we should treat marijuana as a major economic opportunity and […]
France: Medical Cannabis Program to Assist a Million Patients
Steven Bridge There were rumors back in 2017 that France was on the verge of decriminalizing cannabis. Since then, the European state has come a long way and just announced a brand new experimental medical cannabis program. May 28, 2019, will go down in French history as the day when the French Senate gave the […]
California: Cannabis Farmers setting a New Standard
Michael Steinmetz Can a group of farmers change the world through sun-grown cannabis? I think so. The cannabis industry is in position, even in advance of national legalization, to learn from the past and help usher in a new form of farming that will feed, cool and heal the planet — not further decimate it. […]
US: Congressional Funding Bill Protects Cannabis Banking and lets DC Legalize Cannabis Sales
Tom Angell Federal officials would be blocked from punishing banks for working with marijuana businesses under an annual spending bill released by congressional Democratic leaders on Sunday. The legislation, which is set to be considered by a House subcommittee on Monday, would also remove a longstanding rider that prevents the city of Washington, D.C. from […]
Pennsylvania: Anxiety to be Next Condition Qualifying for Medical Cannabis
Sam Ruland Pennsylvania will gain about $7.9 million from marijuana permit applicants this year. Pennsylvania could see a drastic surge in medical marijuana prescriptions this August if the state approves this one ailment as a qualifying condition. The proposed addition? Anxiety, which affects hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians. Back in February, the medical marijuana advisory board approved adding […]
Washington State University: Cannabis Genetic Analysis Research for Better Policy
Jessica Baron Report PDF Researchers from Washington State University have released the first comprehensive analysis of the genetic and chemical characteristics of cannabis. The new study, led by Bernd Markus Lange, a professor at WSU’s Institute of Biological Chemistry and Director of its M.J. Murdock Metabolomics Laboratory, analyzed genetic sequences from nine commercial cannabis strains. The results are […]