A recent poll of just over 2,000 UK adults has indicated strong support remains for legalising medical cannabis. Carried out by Atomik Research, the poll found seventy-six per cent believed medicinal cannabis should be legalised, with only 13% opposing the idea and 11% saying they didn’t know. Support was strongest in...

Pallets may not be an exciting topic to most of us, but they are a critical product in the freight industry - and industrial hemp could play an important role in their production. According to a Deakin University report quoting Freedonia Group research, it's estimated that there are 140 million...

The attention drawn to the case of young epilepsy sufferer Billy Caldwell has forced the UK Government's hand - it has announced a review on medical cannabis. Last week we mentioned Billy Caldwell was experiencing up to 100 seizures a day until he started being administered a specific blend of...

Canada's MediPharm Labs Inc. has announced subsidiary MediPharm Labs Australia Pty. Ltd has commenced construction of its cannabis oil extraction facility in South Gippsland, Victoria. The site is near Wonthaggi, where Medipharm has acquired a plot of industrial land. The extraction facility will initially be approximately 1,000 square metres. According to...

The Florida Department of Health's recent report on the state's medical cannabis programs show the initiative is continuing to grow at a healthy clip. The Department says there are now 120,351 patients in the registry, an increase of 3,223 since its last report the week before. With a population of...

Not all cannabis testing is created equal it seems - and that can have implications for medical marijuana patients. A laboratory comparison prepared by Alaska State Environmental Health Laboratory for the Alcohol Marijuana Control Office (AMCO) summarised the results of data validation performed on samples collected and submitted by AMCO...

British luxury department store chain Harvey Nichols has inked an agreement with MGC Pharmacueticals' MGC Derma division to stock 18 of its products from the end of this month. The cannabidiol-based products will be available to consumers in store and online internationally, where such products are permitted to be sold. "We...

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...