A 12-year old boy with intractable epilepsy and his mother have been keeping the UK's medical cannabis laws and how it deals with patients in the spotlight.Billy Caldwell's condition was such that he used to have up to 100 seizures per day. However, in 2016, Billy began taking cannabis...

The Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States (STATES) Act, if adopted, will also benefit the USA's industrial hemp industry.We briefly mentioned the Act's bill yesterday, which is designed to not only ensure each state has the right to determine its own approach to marijuana , but would also...

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell 's legislation to legalize industrial hemp has been included in the Senate Farm Bill and will be officially considered this week.Senator McConnell introduced a bill for the Hemp Farming Act of 2018 in April and since then, it has seen increasing support in...

New research indicates the cannabinoid cannabidiol (CBD) may be a useful tool in helping those attempting to quit tobacco smoking.According to TobaccoAtlas, 7.1 million deaths occur annually around the world as a result of smoking-related diseases. While there's certainly plenty of motivation for smokers to quit, even those trying...

A very important gathering has finished up in Geneva - the 40th meeting of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD), which is examining cannabis scheduling.“The current international policies on cannabis are outdated and are having a detrimental impact on patients in the United States...

This year's Hemp History Week, running June 4 - 10, has the theme "Deep Roots" and will seek to put more pressure on changing federal laws restricting industrial hemp cultivation."Farmers and entrepreneurs are so eager to begin producing hemp at full commercial scale, to finally be able to supply...

Industrial hemp is growing again at the site of Mount Vernon, the plantation house of the USA's first President, George Washington.Hemp seeds have been sown across a 1,000 square-foot area of the four-acre Pioneer Farm site as a nod to the founding father's foresight.“Through this program, we have been...

They say all good things take time and in the case of Louisiana's medical cannabis program, it certainly has - but things appear to now be really moving along.It's been reported Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed an expansion proposal into law on the weekend that will allow more...

Common sense has finally prevailed in the case of a Montana hemp farmer who took on the feds over access to water.In June last year we reported on the plight of Kim Phillips, who was denied access to irrigation water for her hemp crop controlled by the federal Bureau...

There's certainly a lot going on down-under in relation to medical cannabis these days compared to just a couple of years ago. Here's a few interesting tidbits of news from Australia's cannabusiness scene over the past few days. CannPal CannPal (ASX:CP1) announced on Tuesday it had entered into an agreement...