Last week, Victorian Minister for Agriculture Jaala Pulford was keynote speaker at Canadian Australian Chamber of Commerce event focusing on medical cannabis. The "Breaking the Green Frontier: The Canadian-Australian Cannabis Story" event was designed to assist business, legal and financial professionals and the medical-health sector get up to speed on...

A couple of important developments in the U.S state of New Mexico relating to medical cannabis occurred this week. The first was a step towards adding opiate use disorder (OUD) as a qualifying condition for the state's compassionate medical marijuana program. As we've often mentioned on Hemp Gazette, cannabis and derived...

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has announced the schedule of openings of medical marijuana dispensaries in the state, much to the relief of thousands of patients. Between tomorrow (Feb 15, local time) and February 17, 6 dispensaries will open, with the first to be Cresco Yeltrah-Butler. The six businesses will no doubt...

A decision by Israel's Prime Minister to continue preventing medical cannabis exports for the time being has some puzzled and others rather angry given the alleged circumstances. Widely viewed as progressive on medical cannabis, Israel's reputation has been threatened somewhat by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent decision that an export...

Not satisfied with recent legislation tabled by the New Zealand government concerning medicinal marijuana, Medical Cannabis Awareness New Zealand has written up policy it wants lawmakers to adopt. Last month, MCANZ said medicinal marijuana related legislation introduced in New Zealand’s Parliament in December didn't go far enough. While it would...

The Government of the Australian state of New South Wales is facing allegations of purposely delaying medical cannabis applications made by doctors wanting to prescribe medicines for their patients. New South Wales Shadow Health Minister Walt Secord along with Opposition Leader in the NSW Legislative Council, Adam Searle, claim...

A new study confirms what many seniors using medical cannabis may already know - it appears to be generally safe to use and works well. Medical treatment for the elderly will become a more pressing issue given the growing and ageing population in some countries. For example, in Australia, the...

It seems there was (yet another) entrant to Australia's medical cannabis market we should have mentioned yesterday - also with strong Canadian ties. MedReleaf Australia officially commenced operations on February 1 after securing cultivation, production and import licences from the Australian Federal Government's Office of Drug Control (ODC). A licence for...

The canucks are coming! Another Canadian cannabis company has eyed the Australian market and obviously liked what it saw. Cronos Group Inc. (TSX-V: MJN) has announced the launch of Cronos Australia Pty Ltd. and it receiving medicinal cannabis cultivation and research licenses. Cronos Group is a vertically integrated company that operates...

Two bills in the U.S. state of Virginia could greatly improve access to cannabidiol (CBD) and THC-A based medicinal oils for patients in the state. It's been nearly two years since the Virginia Senate passed legislation permitting the local production of cannabidiol and THC-A. Previous Virginia Governor, Terry McAuliffe, signed the...