Australia's Cann Group (ASX:CAN) has entered into an agreement aiming to accelerate registration of a Schedule 3, over-the-counter cannabidiol (CBD) medicine in Australia.While it has been legal to buy certain low-dose CBD medicines without a prescription in Australia as Schedule 3 (Pharmacist Only) since February this year, these products...

The French Government's medical cannabis trial saw its first patient prescribed a medicine at the Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital last Friday.Launched by France's Minister for Solidarity and Health Olivier Véran, the trial aims to collect the first French data on the efficacy and safety of cannabis for therapeutic purposes, as...

Western Australia's Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development says crops associated with its latest round of industrial hemp trials are in the ground.The trials, now in their second year, will examine the potential for growing hemp in the state for grain production. This year, the research has been...

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...