A recent survey reveals 82% of the executives surveyed at 453 unique banks in the USA want to do business with marijuana enterprises. The nationwide survey by Promontory Interfinancial Network carried out in early April indicates support was highest in the West (89%) and the Midwest (85%). The 2018 Farm Bill...

Legislation introduced to NT's parliament last week seeks to make it legal to grow and process industrial hemp in the Northern Territory. The Hemp Industry Bill 2019 would create the authorising environment for the regulation of cannabis with less than or equal to 1% THC for food, fibre and seed...

Australia's THC Global (ASX:THC) announced on Wednesday the company has been granted a licence to export medical cannabis by the nation's Office of Drug Control. Australia’s Federal Government decided in January last year to permit the export of medical cannabis products. The announcement allayed concerns the country was heading for...

The popularity of New Mexico's medical cannabis program is creating supply headaches for producers and some patients. SFGate reports more than half of producers have indicated they have been unable to keep up with patient demand for marijuana and related products, while around 25% of patients said they were unable...

Hemp seeds found their way safely aboard the International Space Station last week. But is this the first time cannabis has been in space? Back in October last year we reported on a mission to send industrial hemp to the ISS for research purposes. Seeds from Kentucky-grown hemp arrived at the...

The State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy last week announced medical cannabis registered patient and caregiver numbers as at April 2019. According to the Board, by the end of last month there were: 34,225 recommendations 31,075 registered patients with recommendations 2,386 patients with veteran status 1,216 patients with indigent s...

Connecticut's Governor, Ned Lamont, has signed hemp legislation into law after it received unanimous support by the members of both chambers of the state's General Assembly. SB 893, An Act Concerning A Pilot Program For Hemp Production, requires the Department of Agriculture to adopt regulations establishing an industrial hemp pilot...

Australia's LeafCann Group Pty Ltd states it has been granted a  licence by the country's Office of Drug Control to manufacture medical cannabis. LeafCann said it aims to the first triple P (People, Planet, Profit)* medical cannabis grower in Australia. "Our primary focus will be to provide high quality, cannabis products...

As medical (and recreational) cannabis becomes more widely available, the potential impacts on our roads are becoming a more pressing issue. In some places, patients using medical cannabis (regardless of its type or dosage) are outright banned from driving, or not permitted to drive X hours after taking medications. Is...

Australian/NZ researchers have shed some light on how medical practitioners, pharmacists, nurses and other medical/allied health professionals feel about medical cannabis. Researcher from the schools of pharmacy at Queensland University of Technology and the University of Auckland set out to find answers to the following questions: How do health professionals...