Early this week, Americans For Safe Access sent a letter to governors and directors of state medical cannabis programs across the USA requesting immediate action be taken to ensure medical cannabis access is maintained during the COVID-19 crisis.As the situation with the coronavirus worsens, various U.S. states or cities...

Australia's ECS Botanics Holdings Ltd (ASX:ECS) has announced it has been granted a special industrial hemp licence by the Tasmanian Government.In Tasmania, industrial hemp is considered cannabis with leaves and flowering heads containing not more than 1 per cent delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Tasmanian farmers already have a bit of an...

Legislation that would legalize and regulate hemp in South Dakota has again made it to the Governor's desk. Perhaps it will have better luck this time around.It was just over a year ago that another bill that would have allowed industrial hemp to be grown and processed in the...

Western Australia's hemp industry moved forward another step last week with the first processing of hemp seed grown in the state.The West Australian reports  Forest Grove hemp farmer Steve Thomas's  crop was the first to be processed by the recently commissioned machinery, which was imported by Mr. Thomas and...

The little cannabis company that could continues to do so - Australia's Little Green Pharma (ASX:LGP) has been granted a medical cannabis licence boost.The Perth, Western Australia based company announced Australia's Office of Drug Control (ODC) has granted Little Green Pharma an expansion to its current Medicinal Cannabis Licence...

The USA's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is again inviting submissions on CBD and cannabis products generally to assist it in the preparation of regulations.As we mentioned earlier this week, the FDA said it was to take new steps to provide a public and transparent way for new information...

MGC Pharmaceuticals (ASX:MXC) announced on Monday it had commenced a trial in Australia of a medicine aimed at treating the symptoms of dementia.The incidence of dementia in Australia, as elsewhere, is growing as a result of improvements in medical care allowing us to live longer. The Australian Government’s Health...

The United Nations' Commission on Narcotic Drugs last week decided to put off an important vote on scheduling recommendations related to cannabis.It decided to instead vote at its reconvened sixty-third session in December 2020, "in order to preserve the integrity of the international scheduling system". It seems some delegations...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has provided an update to Congress on where it's at on evaluation of cannabidiol (CBD) products. It still has plenty of questions.The agency says it is still concerned by the fact some Americans mistakenly believe CBD products generally have been evaluated to be...

Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) is facing an onslaught of complaints over how medical marijuana licences were issued.DHSS finalised its review of medical marijuana cultivation applications in December last year after receiving thousands of applications  for cultivation, dispensary, manufacturing and testing laboratory licenses by the August...