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...
Canada Needs to Adapt as US, Especially California, Cannabis Industry Grows
Canadian cannabis companies have been given a leg up on its global competition, but that advantage is being eroded and could be...
Colombia Is Looking to Join Canada As a Global Cannabis Industry Leader
Canada has led the global cannabis industry ever since it first legalized medical cannabis. For awhile, the Netherlands was the only...
United States Congress Held Historic Hearing on Cannabis Legalization Today
The cannabis legalization movement has made tremendous strides over the last two decades, creating a patchwork of legal states and...
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...
United States Congress Putting Pressure on the FDA to Regulate Cannabis
Last year’s federal farm bill was a landmark achievement that legalized cannabidiol (CBD) derived from hemp, setting in motion the...
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...
Ireland Announces Launch of Medical Cannabis Program
In 2016, an Irish toddler became the first legal medical cannabis patient in Ireland after his parent successfully acquired authorization...
French Government-Tasked Commission Urges Cannabis Legalization
Everyone can see that cannabis policy reforms have been advancing around the free world and Europe is certainly a hotbed of activity as...
Switzerland’s Federal Council Moves to Fully Legalize Medical Cannabis
Switzerland has been relatively progressive on cannabis, including the legalization of cannabis with no more than 1% THC, one of the...
Canada Brings in $186 Million in Tax Revenue as Sales Continue to Increase
It’s no secret that cannabis sales in Canada have gotten off to a relatively slow start as the government has taken a rather...
Canada Finalizes Cannabis Edibles, Extracts, & Concentrates Regulations
Health Canada recently released its final regulations regarding the sale of cannabis-infused edibles, extracts, and concentrates, finally...
The Oregon Legislature Approves Cannabis Exports, Will the U.S. Follow Suit?
Various localities’ ability to become “laboratories of democracy” (to an extent) and implement their own laws is a...
Will Joe Biden’s Cannabis Policy Win Four More Years for Donald Trump?
A lot can change in American politics, but the current frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, Joe Biden, has a relatively commanding...
Cannabis Sparks a U.S.-Canadian War for Top Employees
Canada has gotten a head start on legalization, but the United States is catching up with Illinois becoming the 11th state to end...
House Committee Considering Cannabis Banking & D.C. Commerce Monday
As the United States moves step by step towards ending federal cannabis prohibition, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial...
Canadian Cannabis Infused Edibles and Products to Be a $2.7 Billion Market
Like a lot of places that have legalized regulated cannabis commerce, Canada has experienced some growing pains. The transition from a...
France Moves Towards Medical Cannabis Trial Program
Progressive cannabis law reforms have been moving forward around the globe and Europe has certainly been a hotbed of activity. However,...
Watch the 2019 ICBC Zurich Video!
The International Cannabis Business Conference (ICBC) finished off its 2019 European trek with a team-up with CannaTrade in Zurich,...
Illinois Legislature Passes Cannabis Legalization! Poised to Be Number 11.
The Illinois Legislature made history today becoming the second state legislative body to pass a bill repealing cannabis prohibition,...
Cannabis Companies Lobby the FDA to Fully Legalize CBD
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve seen CBD products on the shelves. You’ve probably even heard folks talk...
Former Congressman Dana Rohrabacher Joins Cannabis Company Board
Former Orange County Republican Dana Rohrabacher, fresh off the heels of his keynote address at the International Cannabis Business...
Republican Senators Hopeful for Passage of Cannabis Banking Act
Whether you favor legalization or not, you should support allowing state-regulated cannabis businesses to access banking services....
Canada Set Record for Cannabis Sales in March, Numbers Should Be Higher
Canada’s progressive federal policy has given its country’s cannabis companies a huge advantage over global competitors with...
Keeping Up with Canada? California Moves Towards State Cannabis Banking.
As most folks know by now, a lack of banking services have forced cannabis businesses, including those legal under state law, to deal...
Former US Senate Majority Leader Joins International Cannabis Board
As the cannabis legalization movement moves more mainstream, and the industry become more profitable, we shouldn’t be surprised to...
Former Congressman Dana Rohrabacher on Reagan, Trump, and Cannabis
The best chance of the United States has of legalizing cannabis in the near future is passing the STATES Act that would end federal...
ICBC Zurich 2019 In Pictures! Next up: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The International Cannabis Business Conference (ICBC) made its first venture into Switzerland last week, with a conference in...
Dana Rohrabacher Talks ICBC and Trump’s Support for Cannabis Legalization
Politics can make strange bedfellows. It is a cliche, but it is simply the truth, especially in the United States. There aren’t...
Don’t Miss ICBC Zurich and Cannatrade! One Week Away!
Big things are happening for the cannabis community in Europe and around the world, and Switzerland is no different! While the...
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...
Luxembourg Poised to Lead Europe Toward Cannabis Legalization in 2020
As cannabis-friendly locales in Amsterdam and the Netherlands have helped change the European (and global) culture towards cannabis,...
ICBC Zurich and CannaTrade Two Weeks Away!
Switzerland has a long history as a drug policy pioneer and even allowed “grey market” cannabis sales in recent history...
Swiss Federal Commission for Addiction Issues Endorses Legal Cannabis
Drug policy reformers in the United States have long looked to Europe as an example of progressive policies to end the harms of the...
European Commission Presidential Candidate Supports Cannabis Legalization
The nations comprising the European Union have made great strides advancing progressive cannabis policies over recent years, as...
How Soon Will Pharmacies in Switzerland Be Dispensing Medical Cannabis?
Understanding that cannabis should be legal generally, especially for medical purposes, has become a relatively easy answer with a broad...
First Latin American Cannabis to Be Exported to Germany and Europe
In three short years, Germany has become a major leader in the European and international medical cannabis system, quickly becoming the...
Former U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher to Keynote ICBC Zurich!
Cannabis legalization has come a long way in the United States, currently enjoying record high support across the political...
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...
263 Million Cannabis Consumers and Taxation – A Delicate Balance
With 263 million estimated global cannabis consumers and a total addressable market of $344 billion (illicit and legal combined),...
Exclusive Interview with Ben Arn of CannaTrade, ICBC’s Partner in Zurich
Switzerland’s cannabis scene has flown somewhat under the radar internationally, but that is about to change. The innovative...
2019 ICBC Berlin Overview Video Featuring Dr. Mechoulam & More!
The International Cannabis Business Conference (ICBC) in Berlin was such an epic success and we couldn’t be happier with how...
European Medical Cannabis Sales Doubled from 2017 to 2018
Unless you are living under a rock, you know that cannabis legalization, for both medical and adult use purposes, is moving forward...
Watch the ICBC Barcelona Video Featuring Damian Marley and More!
The International Cannabis Business Conference (ICBC) kicked off its 2019 European trek with a team-up with Spannabis in Barcelona....
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...
First German Cannabis Cultivation Bids Announced!
The German medical cannabis system has been an innovative pioneer in a few respects, helping thousands of patients get access to tested...
European Union Hemp Set to Increase THC Percentage
Cannabis and hemp are obviously intertwined in reality and politically. Cannabis and hemp are the same plant, but politically and...
Swiss Pharmacists Launch Lobbying Effort to Sell Cannabis
The debate surrounding ending cannabis prohibition has gone from “if” and “when” to “how” around much...
