Tag: United Kingdom

British Food Standards Agency To Publish CBD Guidelines

Written by Marguerite Arnold on January 4, 2022. Posted in Politics.

The regulatory agency is about to release a guide of legal CBD products in the UK market Sometime in the next few weeks, the British Food Standards Agency (FSA) will publish details about the CBD companies...

Is Boris Johnson’s Government About To Do Right By Cannabis?

Written by Marguerite Arnold on June 22, 2021. Posted in Medical.

The government task force examining how to regulate the industry suggests that the Home Office is not the best place to stick the cannabis industry – but not much else. Sadly, Monty Python is...

Cannabis Tea With The Queen?

Written by Marguerite Arnold on May 11, 2021. Posted in Business.

GW Pharmaceuticals wins the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2021 – what next for the British market? GW Pharmaceuticals, the sole British medical cannabis cultivator and producer,...

Bedrocan To The Rescue! British Cannabis Patients Get 6 Months Relief

Written by Marguerite Arnold on January 26, 2021. Posted in Medical.

Post-Brexit scrambles by British patients on imported medical cannabis from Holland gets six-month reprieve with Dutch authorities and UK Home Office both agreeing on a short-term solution British cannabis...

The United Kingdom Can Legalize Cannabis To Help Address Institutional Racism

Written by Johnny Green on August 4, 2020. Posted in Politics.

Cannabis prohibition is a failed public policy no matter where it exists. It is often a form of institutional racism as well, which is often demonstrated in arrest statistics. For instance, in the United...

The UK’s Medical Cannabis Program Is Clearly Insufficient

Written by Johnny Green on July 7, 2020. Posted in Medical.

When it comes to medical cannabis reform, the United Kingdom has been behind the curve. Whereas a number of other countries have legalized cannabis for medical use in a comprehensive way, and two countries...

UK’s Justice Secretary: Cannabis Will Not Be Legalized Anytime Soon

Written by Johnny Green on January 20, 2020. Posted in Politics.

Cannabis prohibition is a failed public policy, no matter where it exists, including in the United Kingdom. Cannabis has been found to be 114 times safer than alcohol, however, people in the United...

ICBC is one of the top cannabis events in the world, according to Entrepreneur Magazine

Written by Randy Smith on August 13, 2019. Posted in Business, ICBC Vancouver, Politics.

ICBC is one of the top cannabis events in the world, according to Entrepreneur Magazine Green Entrepreneur, the cannabis-focused division of Entrepreneur Magazine, has named the International...

UK MPs Expect to Legalize Cannabis Within the Next 5 to 15 Years

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 29, 2019. Posted in Business, ICBC Vancouver, Politics.

Three United Kingdom Members of Parliament, representing the Conservative, Labour, and Liberal Democrat parties all recently traveled to Canada on a fact-finding trip organized by the harm reduction...