Australia's AusCann Group Holdings Limited (ASX:AC8) has announced it has been granted an import permit under its existing import licence and will soon receive finished cannabis oils from Canada's Canopy Growth Corporation.AusCann will be importing products from Canopy, its major shareholder, that will be AusCann branded. The products involved...
Industrial hemp will be reappearing in the fields of the U.S states of Oklahoma and Kansas, albeit a limited presence initially.First to Kansas, where late last week after going back to the Senate for a final vote, Governor Jeff Colyer signed a bill into law to create an industrial...
Australian company Zelda Therapeutics Ltd (ASX: ZLD) has announced it has completed patient recruitment for its insomnia trial.Zelda received approval to conduct a clinical trial of its cannabis medicines with chronic insomnia patients in Australia in December last year.With recruitment now completed, the next phase will see patients undergoing...
Washington State University scientists have delved into how stress, anxiety and depression are affected by smoking cannabis, using a unique approach.Instead of being carried out in a laboratory environment, participants consumed cannabis in their own homes and self-reported the effects of different strains and varying concentrations of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)...
A study published early last month indicates more than two-thirds of physicians in New York City and surrounding areas feel medical marijuana (MMJ) should be an option available to patients.71% of a total of 164 respondents held this view, even though most were not registered to certify patients for...
The first significant industrial hemp crops in South Australia will be grown in spring through to early summer this year following the State Government’s approval of the first cultivation licences.Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development Tim Whetstone has big hopes for the crop, stating it could have a...
Alaska's Governor Bill Walker signed industrial hemp legislation into law last week - with a hemp pen.As of last Friday, the plant with myriad uses was considered an agricultural crop in the state as the Act took effect immediately.As we recently mentioned in the leadup to this historic event,...
At last Friday's COAG Health Council meeting, all Australian states and territories supported faster access to unregistered medical cannabis products.Ministers agreed to the development of a single national online application pathway that covers both the Commonwealth and state and territory application and approval for such products, avoiding duplication...
A bill for the Hemp Farming Act of 2018 has been introduced and, if passed, would get the U.S. federal government well out of the way of the nation's hemp farming sector.$600 million of industrial hemp products are sold in the USA each year - but much of the...
Australian company MGC Pharmaceuticals (ASX: MXC) has been given the green light and a chunk of land to grow medicinal cannabis in Malta.Malta Enterprise Corporation (the nation’s economic development agency) has awarded MGC with 4,000m2 of land to construct a fully licensed medical cannabis production and cultivation facility. Under...
