A bill to expand Delaware's medical marijuana program has been passed by the state's House of Representatives.Sponsored by Rep. Ed Osienski (D), House Bill 285 passed in a 26-10 vote and has been sent to the Senate for consideration."This legislation will make the Medical Marijuana Program in the...

Although there are no licensed veterinary cannabinoid products yet available in Denmark, the country's dog owners seem to be administering cannabidiol (CBD) supplements to their pets in droves.A recent study by researchers from the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen explored unlicensed cannabinoid use in...

A dozen senators led by Elizabeth Warren and John Fetterman are urging the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to fully deschedule rather than down-schedule marijuana.US President Joe Biden initiated a review into how marijuana is scheduled under federal law in October 2022, with the resulting recommendation from the Department...

What's claimed to be the first Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between an Australian business and a Japanese organisation concerning  medicinal cannabis research has been signed.In late October last year, a bill to amend what was then Japan's nearly 75-year-old Cannabis Control Act was approved by the Japanese government and...

While the money appears to be on cannabis rescheduling in the USA, a group of New York leaders have added their voices to the push for descheduling it altogether.Cannabis is listed as a Schedule I substance under the USA's Controlled Substances Act - in the same category as substances...

Researchers from Waltham Science Institute have studied aspects of the safety and efficacy of long-term oral cannabidiol (CBD) supplementation in cats.There's been increasing research on the use of CBD in pets for the treatment and/or management of various conditions, but it has been mainly confined to dogs. This new...

Dozens of organizations involved in the USA's hemp supply chain and various national dietary supplement organizations have signed a letter addressed to the leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the Food and Drug Administration’s inaction on regulating hemp products.Hemp was legalised at a federal level in...

The USA's Hemp Feed Coalition (HFC) is celebrating what it says is significant progress on obtaining federal approval for the use of hemp grain products in animal feed.Among the many agricultural uses for hemp is hemp seed meal (HSM), the byproduct of cold pressing hemp seed oil for human...

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) is focusing its 2024 Farm Bill efforts toward several specific policy areas, and one of them is hemp.At a federal level in the USA, hemp is legally defined as the plant species Cannabis sativa L. with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)...

USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) has sent out surveys to thousands of hemp producers across the USA for its latest Hemp Production and Disposition Inquiry.Designed to collect information on the total planted and harvested area, yield, production, and value of hemp in the United States last year,...