Colombia Enters Cannabis Oil Production
Colombia has been on the map, certainly when looking at the cannabinoid world from Europe, for the last two to three years. Judging by...
Author: Marguerite Arnold
Setting The Price For Medical Cannabis In Europe?
The German government has just announced that it will buy at least 650 kilograms (1,433 pounds) of GMP certified, medical cannabis flower...
Setting The Price For Medical Cannabis In Europe?
The German government has just announced that it will buy at least 650 kilograms (1,433 pounds) of GMP certified, medical cannabis flower...
Thai Government Opens Way For Citizens To Grow Their Own Cannabis – And Sell It Back To the Government
In a unique twist to what is going on in Europe right now, the Thai government has suggested that it would soon pass a measure allowing...
The NHS Legalizes Two Cannabis Based Medications
While the struggle for cannabis reform goes on in the United Kingdom, GW Pharmaceuticals is laughing all the way to the bank. At the...
Australia Lets General Practitioners Prescribe Medical Cannabis
The UK and Australia might both be members of the Commonwealth, but their approach to medical cannabis so far could not be more...
South African Police Crack Down On Illicit Cannabis Industry
If there is a truism in the world of cannabis, it is that if you give the cannabis industry the slightest crack and it will flow...
How Much Does Your Medical Cannabis Cost?
The question of patient access, just about everywhere, comes down to not only a way to easily obtain one’s cannabis, but also to be...
A Focus On German Patients: What Do They Still Face?
At an undisclosed location, somewhere in Bavaria, a group of activists met on the first weekend of November. They were drawn there by...
The IACM Pushes The Medical Conversation Globally
Dr. Grotenhermen, the charismatic canna doc you might have seen or encountered in the world of ground-breaking medical cannabis science...
France Authorizes A Cannabis Experiment
On October 25, the French National Assembly finally gave the green light to a national experiment with medical cannabis. This has been in...
Do Medical Cannabis Patients Ever Really “Come First?”
Putting patients first is a mantra that you hear a lot in the cannabis industry, and certainly in Europe. The problem is, no matter how...
What Is Going On With Portugal’s Cannabis Industry?
Licensing is underway in Portugal, although the competition is as fierce as it is in many other markets. The government changes rules,...
Cannabis The Commodity – Crisis Or Opportunity?
It has now been almost six years since Colorado started its recreational cannabis experiment on the state level. In Canada, it’s...
Would A Successful Brexit Boost The Chances Of British Cannabis Legalization?
It is no secret that the British are in a bit of a constitutional pickle at the moment. How far the country will align itself with the US...
How Might European Tax Credits Help Finance The Cannabis Industry?
For all of the hurdles that exist in the European market, there is one avenue that has, so far at least, remained remarkably...
What’s Up With Local, Eurocentric Cannabis Production?
While the big Canadians are taking their beatings there is a new hum of something green and growing afoot in Europe. Namely, with all the...
German Cannabis Pharmacy Association Debuts At Dusseldorf’s ExpoPharm 2019
International Cannabis Business Conference veterans are showing up at all sorts of interesting conferences and expos these days auf...
Polish Cannabis Market Appears On Track Before National Election
Despite rumours, strangely timed documents, and temporary difficulties reported by canna hopefuls on the ground in Poland, things appear...
The German Cannabis Market Continues To Open For Imports
The shifting laws of national sovereignties along with new global treaties and a rather old global one are allowing new winds of...
When Will Israel Enter The Global Cannabis Industry?
The global markets are opening up for the overall cannabis industry. Despite all of the bumps and setbacks, when will the Israeli...
Cross Border Cannabis Trade In Europe?
The newest announcement that Tilray has arranged the largest cross-European border transfer of medical cannabis to date is cause for...
Ready, Steady, Rec Market Europe?
There is a decided trend in Europe this year, driven in large part by frustration if not a political necessity. Recreational cannabis...
How Closely Does European Market Reform Track Other Countries?
If 2014 was the year that the recreational cannabis market finally got going in the U.S. and later in Canada, 2019 may well be remembered...
Luxembourg – The New Home Of Recreational Cannabis Crypto Models?
Not only did Luxembourg just make some cannabis news lately by setting a two-year timeframe to legalize cannabis for adult-use, but...
How Clean Is The Cannabis Industry?
As the CannTrust scandal continues to reverberate around Europe, a question is clearly in the room this fall – is this problem just...
The Cannabis Market In Europe – A Trade Game That Disadvantages Patients?
About a month before international cannabis company Tilray announced that it was shipping from Portugal to Germany, Sativex (manufactured...
Tilray’s Portuguese Facility Ships To Germany
In one of the more intriguing cross-European canna developments this summer, Tilray announced its first cross-European shipment. The...
Is Cannabis A Constitutional Question?
As the discussion about cannabis access in Europe continues to progress, albeit slowly, based on the legislative mandates of lawmakers...
Thai Surprise: Country Warned By International Bodies Over Cannabis Liberalization Plans
For all of its enthusiastic entry into the legal cannabis space of late, Thailand has also caught the attention of international...
Thailand Jumps Into Cannabis Tourism Ring
Thailand, last year’s last minute cannabis reformer (along with Israel, on Christmas Day, as a “gift” to the Thai...
Outdoor Growing: Another Canadian Cannabis Innovation Suitable For Export?
With the news that Health Canada has authorized outdoor cultivation (see Aurora), the entire cultivation conversation has now shifted...
Patients Are Powering the European Cannabis Industry
It is a truism in the room that the cannabis industry, globally, and in each region of the world it springs forth in, is driven first by...
Out of Africa: The New Cannabis Trade Looming With Europe
There does not seem to be an end to cannabis demand the new market in Europe is creating – at least if you are looking at where far...
Serious Cannabis Legalization Efforts Kick Off in the United Kingdom
The British press has picked up coverage of the cannabis industry lately, noticing that two special interest groups, with funding...
A Strong Majority of Londoners Want Freedom From Cannabis Prohibition
63% of Londoners Support Full Legalization: What’s Next?
The Evening Standard, like many of its Fleet Street contemporaries, is...
The Church of England to Invest in Medical Cannabis
England has rarely been invaded by anyone or anything. In fact the last invasion of note happened in 1066 (see William the Conqueror)....
Could The British Royals Jump Into The Cannabis Industry?
With the news that the Church of England has changed its investments policy with regards to medical cannabis, Anglophiles must be...
Step by Step, Switzerland Moves Closer to Legalizing Cannabis
Just as the European market could not get any more interesting, the Swiss Federal Commission for Addiction Issues has called for cannabis...
Could Switzerland Lead Europe On Recreational Cannabis Trials?
There has been a great deal of speculation about what the “Swiss exemption” might do to spur cannabis reform in Europe. There...
Will Switzerland Soon Start Exporting Cannabis Into Germany and the EU?
With the news that both the first German bid has concluded and that Macedonia seems poised to import cannabis into the European Union,...
Understanding the European CBD “Novel Foods” Regulations
Foreigners entering the European cannabis market are finding that the regulations here are much higher than they expected, if not well...
Germany, Switzerland, UK, & More: Big European Cannabis News Abounds
The forces currently shaping the European cannabis map are intriguing this spring and from several directions. For the latest...
German Cultivation Bids Reverberate Across the Global Cannabis Industry
The day after the third annual International Cannabis Business Conference (ICBC) in Berlin, as the crew packed up and headed on to...
United Kingdom Opens First Medical Cannabis Treatment Clinics
The first week of March this year was significant for British cannabis patients for one very big reason: the first medical cannabis...
UK Cannabis Trades Association Challenges the EU’s CBD Classification
Novel Food Designation For CBD Challenged By British Lawyers
In good news for the industry both in Europe and those companies trying to...
German-Dutch Cannabis Experiment Grows More Interesting
Those who know anything about the history of the Dutch cannabis industry, know it is a vertical that has flourished in the grey areas and...
Trump Seeks Comment for International Cannabis Reform
Are The UN and European Parliament Finally Prompting White House To Shift Cannabis Policy?
Both the European Parliament and the UN have...
Germany Is Turning Into A Fascinating Test Case For Cannabis
While those in the Canadian cannabis market are certainly far ahead in obtaining full recreational acceptance for cannabis, and state...
The German Cannabis Cultivation Bid Has A New Deadline!
According to a late January press release by the ever-tight lipped BfArM – the federal agency in charge of launching...
