Legislation recently introduced in the US House Of Representative seeks to reschedule marijuana and exclude cannabidiol (CBD) from the definition of marijuana.Also known as the “Compassionate Access Act”, HR 715 was introduced by Congressman Morgan Griffith and Congressman Earl Blumenauer.“There are countless reports of marijuana’s medicinal benefits in treating...
An industrial hemp field day will be held in Forthside, Tasmania on Thursday, 9th of February - and it's expected to generate plenty of interest from potential hemp farmers.The focus of the field day will be the research collaboration between the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture and Ecofibre Industries; which...
Nova Scotia's Human Rights Commission has directed that a Canadian man's medicinal cannabis costs must be covered by his insurer.The man, Gordon (Wayne) Skinner, argued that he faced discrimination in accessing the insurance coverage based on his disability; which was the result of a work-related car accident some years...
A survey carried out by the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) indicates a majority of GP's in the country support legalising cannabis for therapeutic use.58.6% of 565 family GP's who took part in the survey supported the legalisation of cannabis for medical use and more than 60% agreed...
A recent meeting of industry associations, companies, various other groups and the South Australian government appears to have been a success.As we reported a couple of weeks ago, the roundtable meeting was to be focused on discussing the potential for establishing industrial hemp and medicinal cannabis industries in South...
New Bills recently introduced in the Hawaii Senate are seeking to legalize hemp production in the state.While it's not the first time such legislation has been introduced for debate, with any luck this time around at least one of them will be passed.The first, Senate Bill 163 (SB163), was...
A recently published Apple patent has some wondering if the electronics giant has its sights set on entering the medical cannabis device market.Filed in June last year and only released just a few days ago, the patent is for a "sublimator/vaporizer" - but the patent doesn't say what will...
The Government of the Australian state of Queensland has released the nation's first medicinal cannabis guidelines - but not everyone is happy with the result.Three documents have been created to assist doctors, many of whom have little or no knowledge of working with cannabis medicines.“These new Guidance documents provide...
A bill before the Washington State Senate is seeking to medical marijuana businesses from using crypto and virtual currencies such as bitcoin.As we've mentioned in the past, the US cannabis industry has experienced a cash crisis of sorts; due to many operators being refused financial services by conventional banks....
Tasmanian Shadow Attorney-General Lara Giddings has condemned the state's government for what she says is inaction and broken promises relating to medicinal cannabis.In late 2015, the state governments of New South Wales and Tasmania signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding collaboration on a raft of medical cannabis actions;...
