Medical cannabis programs are moving ahead in the U.S. states of Iowa and Ohio, with important licenses issued; or soon to be issued. First to Iowa, where last week the state's Department of Public Health issued a notice of intent to award a manufacturing license to MedPharm Iowa, LLC...

Once a leading producer of industrial hemp, the crop is set to make a return to the U.S. state of Wisconsin after Governor Scott Walker signed Senate Bill 119 into law last week. A pilot program is to be established in the state that will examine the cultivation, processing and...

Zelda Therapeutics Ltd (ASX: ZLD has announced it has secured regulatory approval to conduct a clinical trial of its cannabis medicines with chronic insomnia patients in Australia. The trial is expected to commence in the first quarter of next year and patient recruitment should begin shortly. A randomised, placebo controlled,...

In the U.S. state of Indiana, stores have been given 60 days to clear their shelves of cannabidiol products, particularly those containing THC. “Applicable law and opinions guide me to direct the Excise Police to perform normal, periodic regulatory spot checks of CBD oil products, focusing on those products which...

Australia's CSIRO will be hosting the Australian Industrial Hemp Conference in the Victorian city of Geelong between 28th February to 2nd March 2018. It's an exciting time for the hemp industry in Australia, particularly with the recent lifting of a ban on the sale of hemp seeds for food. The conference...

Previous Premier of the Australian state of New South Wales, Mike Baird, has reportedly become a patron of medical cannabis advocacy group, United In Compassion. The Daily Telegraph reported Mr. Baird said he became a "big believer" in medicinal cannabis after meeting the son of United In Compassion founder, Lucy...

Much has been happening in relation to Australia's nascent medical cannabis industry over the past week - here's a roundup of some of the developments. AusCann On Monday, AusCann (ASX:AC8) announced its 50:50 joint venture in Chile, DayaCann, had secured its second cultivation licence in Chile, which now enables the operation...

In the Australian state of New South Wales,  a $6 million statewide advisory service aimed at supporting doctors will (hopefully) help some patients gain access to medical cannabis more rapidly. Announced by Minister for Health Brad Hazzard yesterday,  the NSW Medicinal Cannabis Advisory Service will start in January 2018 -...

The State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy says it has received hundreds of applications for medical cannabis dispensaries - but less than 20% will receive the coveted permit. The Board finished accepting applications for dispensary licenses on Friday last week and said it received 370 applications - but only 60...

It's expected that the U.S. state of Maryland's medical cannabis program will be fully implemented within a "few weeks" - but medicines may be thin on the ground. It's been a long road to get to this point. The program was signed into law in 2014, then in late 2015,...