Australia's The Hydroponics Company (ASX: THC) emerged from a trading halt last week with the news it had acquired production facilities from LEO Pharma, along with its associated freehold land and building.THC says the $2.55 million it has spent now gives it the largest pharmaceutical botanicals extraction and refinement...

Canada's Aphria Inc. has announced its first shipment of medical cannabis to Australia's Althea Company Pty Ltd. has been delivered.The delivery includes packaged co-branded cannabis oil and dried flower products for the Australian medical cannabis market."We're excited that Australian patients in need will now have access to Aphria-branded pharmaceutical-grade,...

Australia's AusCann Group Holdings Limited (ASX:AC8) has announced it has been granted an import permit under its existing import licence and will soon receive finished cannabis oils from Canada's Canopy Growth Corporation.AusCann will be importing products from Canopy, its major shareholder, that will be AusCann branded. The products involved...

Industrial hemp will be reappearing in the fields of the U.S states of Oklahoma and Kansas, albeit a limited presence initially.First to Kansas, where late  last week after going back to the Senate for a final vote, Governor Jeff Colyer signed a bill into law to create an industrial...

Australian company Zelda Therapeutics Ltd (ASX: ZLD) has announced it has completed patient recruitment for its insomnia trial.Zelda received approval to conduct a clinical trial of its cannabis medicines with chronic insomnia patients in Australia in December last year.With recruitment now completed, the next phase will see  patients undergoing...

Washington State University scientists have delved into how stress, anxiety and depression are affected by smoking cannabis, using a unique approach.Instead of being carried out in a laboratory environment, participants consumed cannabis in their own homes and self-reported the effects of different strains and varying concentrations of  tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)...

A study published early last month indicates more than two-thirds of  physicians in New York City and surrounding areas feel medical marijuana (MMJ) should be an option available to patients.71% of a total of 164 respondents held this view, even though most were not registered to certify patients for...

The first significant industrial hemp crops in South Australia will be grown in spring through to early summer this year following the State Government’s approval of the first cultivation licences.Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development Tim Whetstone has big hopes for the crop, stating it could have a...

Alaska's Governor Bill Walker signed industrial hemp legislation into law last week - with a hemp pen.As of last Friday, the plant with myriad uses was considered an agricultural crop in the state as the Act took effect immediately.As we recently mentioned in the leadup to this historic event,...

At last Friday's COAG Health Council meeting, all Australian states and territories supported faster access to unregistered medical cannabis products.Ministers agreed to the development of a single national online application pathway that covers both the Commonwealth and state and territory application and approval for such products, avoiding duplication...