Finding funding for medical cannabis research can be challenging in the USA, but a new initiative is thinking outside the box. University of New Mexico's recently launched "Rounding Up for Research" project will raise funds for this purpose and for related student scholarships. UNM is aiming to team up with cannabis dispensaries...

Legislation has been reintroduced in the USA seeking to ensure certain loan programs of the Small Business Administration are made available to legitimate cannabis-related businesses and service providers. While the SBA doesn’t lend money directly to small business owners, it sets guidelines for loans made by its partners. This reduces...

A bill to permit the continued use of telemedicine and telehealth to authorize patients for medical cannabis hasn't passed muster with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy - but not because he's against the idea. In August last year, an Administrative Order was issued permitting physicians providing medical cannabis certifications to...

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...