What's claimed to be the first Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between an Australian business and a Japanese organisation concerning  medicinal cannabis research has been signed. In late October last year, a bill to amend what was then Japan's nearly 75-year-old Cannabis Control Act was approved by the Japanese government and...

While the money appears to be on cannabis rescheduling in the USA, a group of New York leaders have added their voices to the push for descheduling it altogether. Cannabis is listed as a Schedule I substance under the USA's Controlled Substances Act - in the same category as substances...

Researchers from Waltham Science Institute have studied aspects of the safety and efficacy of long-term oral cannabidiol (CBD) supplementation in cats. There's been increasing research on the use of CBD in pets for the treatment and/or management of various conditions, but it has been mainly confined to dogs. This new...

Dozens of organizations involved in the USA's hemp supply chain and various national dietary supplement organizations have signed a letter addressed to the leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the Food and Drug Administration’s inaction on regulating hemp products. Hemp was legalised at a federal level in...

The USA's Hemp Feed Coalition (HFC) is celebrating what it says is significant progress on obtaining federal approval for the use of hemp grain products in animal feed. Among the many agricultural uses for hemp is hemp seed meal (HSM), the byproduct of cold pressing hemp seed oil for human...

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) is focusing its 2024 Farm Bill efforts toward several specific policy areas, and one of them is hemp. At a federal level in the USA, hemp is legally defined as the plant species Cannabis sativa L. with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)...

USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) has sent out surveys to thousands of hemp producers across the USA for its latest Hemp Production and Disposition Inquiry. Designed to collect information on the total planted and harvested area, yield, production, and value of hemp in the United States last year,...

A UK university and an innovator providing sustainable solutions to the e-waste stream have teamed up to further develop a natural fibre-based circuit board. According to Jiva Materials, printed circuit board (PCB) manufacture commonly forms the largest share of the overall carbon footprint for an assembled electronic product. The Hampshire...

Governor of Ohio Mike DeWine has urged the state's General Assembly to regulate intoxicating hemp sooner rather than later in order to prevent these products winding up in the hands of children. Ohioans voted in favour of adult-use (recreational) marijuana in November last year, which took effect on December 7th,...

It's well known that under the influence of marijuana, the urge to snack increases. New research sheds further light on as to why. Previous research out of Washington State University in 2018 zeroed in on the cannabis munchies mystery. Exposure to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), an intoxicating cannabinoid, was found to trigger...