Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has declared a consumer product emergency and signed off on an executive order banning the sale of intoxicating hemp products in the state for 90 days.Like many other states, Ohio has been grappling with the issue of intoxicating hemp products that are created by manipulating...

Spain's Council of Ministers has approved regulations concerning the use of medical cannabis in the country. The regulations are highly restrictive, but a start.Requested by the Health and Consumer Affairs Committee of the Congress of Deputies, the regulations integrate medical cannabis into Spain's healthcare system.While the associated Royal Decree...

Emergency regulations concerning industrial hemp in California have been made permanent by Governor Gavin Newsom.In September last year, Governor Newsom signed off on emergency regulations requiring industrial hemp food, food additives, beverages, and dietary supplements have no detectable THC per serving. Furthermore, such products could not be sold to...

The Netherlands' Fashion for Good has teamed up with a collective of companies to accelerative the use of hemp as an alternative to conventional cotton in denim.The global denim market is huge; projected to surpass USD 115 billion by 2029 according to one forecast. But the denim industry also...

Australia's Office of Drug Control (ODC) has released 2024 data on legal cannabis-related import and export activities in the country.The ODC regulates and monitors the cultivation, import, export and manufacture of controlled substances to comply with Australia's obligations under International Drug Conventions, including cannabis for medicinal purposes.The updated data...

In Australia, New South Wales branches of several leading national health organisations are collectively urging the Minns State Government to reform medicinal cannabis prescribing and dispensing.The signatories to a letter to NSW Health Minister Ryan Park include the state branches of:The Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) Pharmacy...

Submissions for Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration's (TGA's) public consultation on medicinal cannabis must be lodged by 5pm Tuesday 7 October 2025.In early August, the TGA announced it would be launching a public consultation; triggered by growing concerns surrounding the 1,000+ unapproved medicinal cannabis products available in Australia — particularly...

A video recently posted to US President Donald Trump's Truth Social account saw shares in cannabis companies get a bump up.The post, dated September 28 and without commentary from the President, featured video from The Commonwealth Project supporting the use of hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) by seniors, stating it...

The Virginia Cannabis Control Authority (CCA) now has a better handle on how the state's medical cannabis program is operating thanks to the implementation of a seed-to-sale tracking system.Operated by Metrc, the system tracks retail marijuana from either the seed or immature plant stage until resulting products are sold...

Approximately 6,000 illegal hemp-derived THC products have been seized by regulators in Arkansas since a ban on intoxicating substances derived from hemp was upheld.In mid-July, the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Arkansas' ban, which was followed by thousands of visits by state Department of Finance and Administration’s...