A bill signed by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp provides for the production, manufacturing, and dispensing of low THC cannabis oil in the state.Up to this point, while Georgia law authorized the legal possession of up to
20 fluid ounces of low THC (no more than 5% tetrahydrocannabinol) cannabis oil...
A survey of New Zealand medical professionals’ views on medicinal cannabis shows an increasing interest from patients and the willingness of GPs to prescribe products.The survey of 1,091 medical professionals, carried out by Horizon Research on behalf of Helius Therapeutics, found 63% of all GPs and...
The Governor of Kansas, Laura Kelly, yesterday signed the Senate Substitute for House Bill 2167, which establishes the state's Commercial Industrial Hemp Program.Last year, legislation for a hemp pilot program was signed into law. House Bill 2167 takes thing further. It requires the Kansas Department of Agriculture (KDA), after...
It's tragic and frustrating that Australia's hemp industry is threatened by idiots - it's not as though farmers don't have enough in the way of challenges.An article in the Victor Harbor Times (South Australia) details the plight of a couple of hemp farmers who have spent a big chunk...
A bill to expand Oklahoma's currently quite limited industrial hemp program
has gained the green light from the House and Senate and has headed to Governor Stitt for his signature.House
Bill 2913, which sought to establish the Oklahoma Industrial Hemp
Agricultural Pilot Program, was signed off just under a year ago....
Transporting hemp through the U.S. state of Idaho would have been made
possible if new legislation had made it across the line - but unfortunately it
hasn't.While the 2018 Farm Bill removes a many restrictions related to industrial hemp at a federal level, states still have final say...
Big things had been forecast for the U.S. State of Missouri's medical
cannabis program, but it could become a crowded and very competitive sector.Legalising medical cannabis was approved by Missouri voters in November
last year. Under the Medical Marijuana and Veteran Healthcare Services
Initiative, initial qualifying conditions include:CancerEpilepsyGlaucomaIntractable migraines that do not...
A report from Minnesota Department of Health
researchers indicates the state's medicinal cannabis program is having a
positive impact on cancer patients.Patients participating in the program record the
severity of symptoms - anxiety, poor appetite, depression, poor sleep, fatigue, nausea, pain, and
vomiting - in the 24 hour period prior to a medical...
An amendment removing hemp from Schedule I from the 2018 Schedules of Controlled Substances
in Texas came into effect last week.The amendment was published in the March 15, 2019 issue of the Texas
Register and became effective on April 5. Under the section "Tetrahydrocannabinols", Schedule I now states:
...
Asterion Australia Pty Ltd's Toowoomba medicinal cannabis venture has been awarded Major Project Status by the Australian Federal Government.The Toowoomba project, which we first mentioned in February, will be located on a 75-hectare site adjacent to Wellcamp Airport - around 23 kilometres from the heart of Toowoomba in Queensland....
