Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf celebrated the five-year anniversary the state's Medical Marijuana Act on the weekend.Under Governor Wolf's watch, on April 17, 2016 Pennsylvania became the 24th US state to legalize medical marijuana. Today, just under 553,000 patients and caregivers are registered for the program, which covers nearly two...

Including hemp in commercial feed is another step closer in the U.S. state of Montana.Unprocessed hemp seed and other parts of the plant may be fed to animals as forage in Montana - which is an improvement on some other states where it is banned altogether. Each state is...

Australia's ECS Botanics Holdings Ltd (ASX:ECS) is continuing with its plans to expand cannabis cultivation in Tasmania - and in a very big way.On Wednesday, the company announced it has lodged plans with the Office of Drug Control (ODC) to expand its cultivation area from 2,500 square metres (sqm)...

A merger between local medicinal cannabis company Australian Natural Therapeutics Group  (ANTG) and Canada's Asterion Cannabis Inc. will deliver what is claimed to be the largest renewables-powered medicinal cannabis growing, manufacturing and R&D facility in the world.The 75 hectare facility near Toowoomba will produce more than 500,000 kg of...

Researchers at Australia's Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics at the University of Sydney have defined durations of impairment after THC dosing - but it's not straightforward.With more people discovering the benefits of medical cannabis, this raises the important issue of potential impairment while driving. In Australia, any detectable amount...

The decades-long struggle to reintroduce industrial hemp cultivation to Idaho may soon be over.Idaho is the only remaining U.S. state where hemp continues to be illegal, but perhaps not for long. While a 2019 effort to legalize hemp failed after heavy criticism by police and prosecutors, Idaho's Senate last...

New Zealand medical cannabis company Puro has kicked off the harvest of its crop, which it claims to be the largest in the country to date.Planted in December last year, tens of thousands of plants have been grown on the 10-hectare site in Kēkerengū, on the Kaikōura coast of...

MediPharm Labs has announced the export of its first shipment of cannabis oil products manufactured in Australia to Germany.The products - capsules containing cannabis oil - were produced at its facility in Wonthaggi, Victoria. Cannabis flower from cultivators across Australia are brought into the facility, where they are processed...

Early last week, Governor Jared Polis released the Colorado Hemp Advancement and Management Plan report.Colorado's Department of Agriculture formed a statewide partnership dubbed the Colorado Hemp Advancement and Management Plan (CHAMP) in June 2019. The many stakeholders involved put together economic advancement principles for the entire hemp supply chain...

The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) has published a lexicon to support the standardization of terminology used in the hemp industry.As new industries develop, so does associated language and jargon. Sometimes words and terms used have different meaning when applied in other sectors, which can lead to confusion and...