Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed Senate Bill 0816 into law this week, updating the state's Industrial Hemp Growers Act.The changes have been made to bring the Act into line with U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) final hemp rule, which was published in January and came into effect early...

A department of one of the largest specialist medical colleges in Australia and New Zealand is advising health professionals against prescribing cannabis medicines for chronic non-cancer pain unless part of a clinical trial.The Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists' advice has been...

It's great to see increasing attention being paid to the potential for using hemp waste as livestock feed.The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) recently awarded nearly $300,000 to Oregon State University to fund research into feeding spent hemp biomass to cattle.The research aims...

Introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives last week, the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act of 2021 has already been supported by more than 100 members of Congress.H.R. 1996 would enable marijuana-related businesses in the forty-seven states, four U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia that have...

Australian medical cannabis company Bod Australia Limited (ASX:BDA) has entered into an agreement with Drug Science UK involving a trial of Bod's MediCabilis product in managing symptoms associated with long-COVID."Long-COVID" is a phenomenon where symptoms continue for weeks or months beyond the initial illness. Far from being isolated cases,...

The US state of Kentucky's Agriculture Commissioner says the USDA's final rule for hemp is a big improvement on the interim version.Kentucky is among the U.S states still overseeing its hemp sector under provisions in the 2014 Farm Bill, after it had its 2018 Farm Bill-based state plan knocked...

In his State of the State address on Tuesday, Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein announced his Government will be making improvements to Tasmania's medical cannabis Controlled Access Scheme.Introduced in 2017, the Scheme currently only allows specialists the ability to prescribe medical cannabis products to patients in circumstances where conventional treatments...

Australian medical cannabis company Little Green Pharma (ASX:LGP) has announced its latest purchase order and intentions to acquire land with view to expanding its operations.LGP announced on Monday it had received a purchase order from German pharmaceutical wholesaler Deutsche Medizinalcannabis Gmbh (“Demecan”)  for 9,000 x 15 gram units of...

Defending his stance against a bill to adopt Nebraska's Medical Cannabis Act, Governor Pete Ricketts says "legalising marijuana" will "kill kids".In a press conference after discussion between lawmakers regarding Legislative Bill 474, Governor Ricketts said:"So this is a dangerous drug that will impact our kids. If you legalise marijuana,...

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 the smell doesn't concern...