Written by Freddie Dawson || 12th December 2018 || News analysis |
US tobacco giant Altria has bought a 45% stake in Canadian cannabis company the Cronos Group, with the option to take a majority 55% stake within the next four years ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 6th December 2018 || News analysis |
Canadian medical cannabis company Wayland Group has agreed to purchase 51% of the British firm Theros Pharma for £27.8m – if it succeeds in gaining a UK cultivation or import licence ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 15th November 2018 || News analysis |
Investment in Europe continues as companies in the medical cannabis sector anticipate further loosening of regulations. In the pure-CBD sector, two American firms are eyeing expansion ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 12th November 2018 || News analysis |
American CBD company CV Sciences announces sales of $13.6m in the third quarter of 2018 and $34m over the first nine months of the year while Terra Tech reveals merger ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 12th November 2018 || News analysis |
Two North American companies have announced collaborations with established drug delivery firms to produce and expand distribution for oral CBD strips – soluble strips that dissolve in the mouth ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 2nd November 2018 || News analysis |
Colorado-based Mile High Labs has announced $35m in Series A funding from institutional and private equity investors to expand its CBD production capacity ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 1st November 2018 || News analysis |
Medical cannabis products are now legal in the UK – in very limited circumstances. This could include products without marketing authorisation, if approved by a registered specialist in certain conditions ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 31st October 2018 || News analysis |
A founder of the UK Cannabis Trades Association (CTA) has resigned, alleging the industry body has been misleading companies about its role in regulation ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 26th October 2018 || News analysis |
CBD and other legal cannabis products appear to be dividing the tobacco industry.
Around half of the major Western tobacco companies have publicly announced an interest in the cannabis and cannabis-product spheres with the other half continuing to deny...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 22nd October 2018 || News analysis |
Comments invited by the FDA on the potential abuse and medical usefulness of CBD and other cannabis-derived substances will be submitted to the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 4th October 2018 || News analysis |
Canadian company Emerald Health Therapeutics is set to sign a deal to use an extraction facility capable of processing 1000 tonnes of biomass to produce 600m softgel CBD capsules a year ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 2nd October 2018 || News analysis |
Intrexon, an American biotech company listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange, has announced a development in its microbial platform capable of producing cannabinoids for medical use ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 1st October 2018 || News analysis |
A Canadian company has come under regulatory scrutiny and lost a major business deal after it attempted to recruit new medical cannabis users at a dance club party using scantily clad women in nurses’ uniforms ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 17th September 2018 || News analysis |
Namaste Technologies, the company behind Canadian online cannabis sales platform CannMart, is planning an advance into Europe, taking CBD products into the UK market as food supplements ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 17th September 2018 || News analysis |
Australian company MGC Pharmaceuticals has signed a deal to distribute cannabis-based pharmaceutical products throughout Europe and to produce and cultivate medical cannabis in Malta ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 11th September 2018 || News analysis |
CBD products, which the shop-owner and the suppliers say were entirely legal, have been seized by police from a vape shop in Plymouth in the southwest of England ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 5th September 2018 || News analysis |
Although all three states have laws permitting CBD sales, retailers in Ohio, Iowa and Alabama have been told they are breaking the law and ordered to stop ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 23rd August 2018 || News analysis |
CBD should not be scheduled within international drug control conventions, according to the latest meeting of the World Health Organization’s Expert Committee on Drug Dependence ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 23rd August 2018 || News analysis |
A Polish CBD company has been acquired by a publicly traded Canadian medicinal cannabis company in a cash-and-shares deal worth more than $15m USD plus future incentives ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 18th April 2018 || News analysis |
So-called “short-fill” products have not affected the number of nicotine-containing e-liquids being notified in the UK, according to an expert from the agency in charge ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 2nd October 2017 || News analysis |
Enovap, an innovative French hardware manufacturer, has announced plans to move into the US market, where it hopes to apply its technology to medicinal cannabis use ...
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