New Zealand Minister of Agriculture and Food Safety Damien O'Connor has announced hemp seed foods will (finally) be legally available in the country soon.It was back in April last year that the Australia and New Zealand Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation gave the nod to allowing hemp seeds to...
Western Australia's McGowan Government is giving the state's industrial hemp sector a helping hand with the backing of the Industrial Hemp Grants Scheme (IHGS).The $200,000 scheme will provide grants for research identifying new varieties of industrial hemp that are suitable for the state and also support investigating opportunities for...
Australia's Althea Group Holdings Limited (ASX:AGH) announced on Friday its subsidiary had been granted a cannabis manufacturing licence by the Australian Government’s Office of Drug Control.Althea Company Pty Ltd now has the green light to manufacture cannabis extracts, tinctures and resins - one of 16 firms in Australia currently...
Southern Illinois University Carbondale has set its sights on training students for the cannabis sector and assisting farmers/growers in making better-informed choices in their operations, backed by science.The USA's legal cannabis industry is booming and Illinois has seen progress in the area, including Governor Bruce Rauner signing the Industrial...
Research will soon get under way to determine if high THC medicinal cannabis can benefit patients with glioma - a particularly nasty form of brain tumour.Said to be a world-first, the trial will be led by researchers at Endeavour College of Natural Health in Australia and supported by neurosurgeon...
Australian medical cannabis company Cann Group (ASX:CAN) has secured a contract with the Victorian Government for the supply of cannabis resin.The extract supplied to the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) will be further purified and used to make a product to treat children with severe and intractable...
A new report forecasts Australia's medicinal cannabis and industrial hemp mark could be worth billions of dollars by 2028.The Oceania Cannabis Report by Prohibition Partners says the region is poised for big things on the global cannabis scene, with it estimated to be worth US$8.7 billion by 2028.For Australia...
The South Australian Government has announced there have been ten licences issued for the cultivation and processing of industrial hemp in the state.Ten licences may not sound like a huge number, but it wasn't that long ago the crop was entirely banned in the state; with South Australia the...
Theft of industrial hemp plants in the USA appears to be on the increase, and in one recent incident guns were reportedly involved.The Leaf Chronicle reports a farmer in Indian Mound, Tennessee gave chase to a group of heavily armed men that had been pilfering his plants -...
Cannabis has proven effective in treating some sufferers of Crohn's Disease, but the assumed reason it works has been thrown into doubt.Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestines and may be accompanied by the development of ulcers and fistulae. There is no cure for the condition and...
