In Australia, Queensland's Hemp Pet has received an Equitana Melbourne 2024 Business Award for its Performance Cookies for Horses.Equitana is the largest equestrian showcase in the Southern Hemisphere. Held every two years, this year it ran 14 - 17 November in Victoria's capital city. The event's associated awards recognise...
Australia's Parliament will vote on a bill legalising cannabis for adult use late this month. It will face some stiff opposition.The proposed legislation, introduced by the Greens, would see a national agency given oversight of a commercial industry. The yet-to-be-created Cannabis Australia National Agency (CANA) would also set out...
The Maryland Department of Health has launched a tool that graphs the public health impacts of cannabis use in the state.Cannabis is legal for medical use and recreational use in Maryland. The state's medical program became operational in December 2017, while recreational sales began in July 1, 2023.Deputy Secretary...
A survey in New Zealand has revealed significant proportions of those using cannabis reported lower levels of alcohol and methamphetamine use.An online survey by Massey University researchers completed by 23,500 New Zealand respondents asked those who had used cannabis and any of eight other substances in the same six-month...
Moldova's government has approved amendments to regulations covering plants containing narcotic or psychotropic substances to allow for industrial hemp cultivation.The Republic of Moldova is a small land-locked Eastern European country situate in the north-eastern corner of the Balkans. With a population of around 2.5 million, the economy's relies heavily...
Jerome, Idaho's Hempitecture has been awarded a bunch of bucks to build a hemp processing facility in Tennessee.In late October, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced USD $428 million in grants for 14 projects to accelerate domestic clean energy manufacturing in 15 US coal communities; part of the...
New research has found marijuana use during pregnancy in the USA is statistically significant - and many women may not be aware of associated risks.With cannabis now legal for recreational and/or medical use in most US states, it's well and truly out of the shadows and in the mainstream.A...
The New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission has issued another reminder about unregulated intoxicating hemp products.Like many other states, New Jersey has been grappling with a proliferation of products that meet the legal definition of hemp due to their low concentration of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (“THC”) but contain other forms of...
Cannabis related initiatives were on the ballots of four states in last week's elections. Now the dust is starting to settle, here's what happened.In Florida, legalising recreational marijuana use was on the ballot and while it achieved a majority of votes, it won't make it over the line due...
The UK Government has announced reforms to current hemp licence regulations that it says will lift some of the red tape burden on farmers.Expected to come into effect for the 2025 growing season, licence holders will no longer have to stipulate the field in which they intend to grow...
