German pharmaceutical manufacturer Dermapharm Holding is paying Canadian cannabis giant Canopy Growth €80m for the Cannabinoid Compound Company (C3) ...
Audacious Brands is the latest cannabis company to look at a partnership with a Native American tribe to gain a head start in the New York recreational cannabis market ...
€3m in aid has been allocated to the hemp supply chain following a decree by minister of agriculture Stefano Patuanelli issued in late December 2021 ...
A bill governing growing and harvesting of hemp for pharmaceuticals has been passed to the Sejm’s Health Commission and the Agriculture and Rural Development Commission ...
Covid has significantly increased consumer interest in health and wellness, with food and drink formulations that create innovative solutions for “mental and emotional wellbeing” becoming a 2021 trend ...
Potential demand for rarer cannabinoids is prompting firms to explore other methods of manufacturing, such as biosynthesis and chemical synthesis, to give higher yields at lower...
Last year saw no movement on cannabinoid issues at federal level in the US, as CBD-Intel predicted, and it’s not looking too good for this year either – though we anticipate some continued movement at...
The first public hearing has been held on the industry challenge against the French government decree confirming the continuation of the ban on selling hemp flower as an end-product ...
The French CBD industry is planning to fight back against a decree that continues to deny shops the right to sell CBD flowers or hemp leaves to consumers ...
Colombian insurance providers must now cover the cost of medical cannabis prescriptions, a move that could represent a “billion-dollar shift” in the market – and perhaps lay down a marker for other countries ...
The dust is starting to settle and the initial excitement – or even hype – around Malta becoming the first EU country to legalise recreational cannabis in some form is starting to fade ...
Government support of Thailand's hemp and CBD industry is paying off. Examples include US based Australis' partnership with local GTH and MPX International's agreement with Salus Thailand ...
US representatives have introduced a bill into the House aiming to push the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate CBD in food and drinks ...
New guidance from the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) on the use of real word data and evidence to support clinical trials could help cannabinoid products gain approval ...
The most common subject of recent warning letters from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over unsubstantiated health claims was CBD products that were claimed to mitigate, prevent, treat, diagnose or cure Covid-19 ...
Elixinol will continue to be produced for the UK under a licensing agreement with British Cannabis despite having pulled out of the UK and European markets after missing the boat on novel food applications ...
CBD-Intel was on point in its 2021 predictions. Much like the preceding year, we believed 2021 would largely be defined more by what did not happen than what did ...
If 2020 was the year in the waiting-room then 2021 was perhaps the year of the unfulfilled hype. As predicted, there was little movement in many of the major issues controlling the CBD market ...
The acquisition of Mellow by US cannabis and CBD investment firm Thought Leaders will position the UK-based CBD marketplace to open in the US and bolster its position in Asia ...
The UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) has recommended the government not to set one single concentration limit for THC that would apply to all CBD products ...
The US-based heat-not-burn (HnB) hemp company Omura will announce a new set of target country markets in the first quarter of 2022, starting with Switzerland as a bridge into Europe ...
Malta becoming the first EU country to legalise recreational cannabis in some form will still have a commercial impact even though the regulations do not create a retail market ...
Many ailing African economies are turning to hemp and cannabis cultivation. In some cases this is to replace declining tobacco businesses. But many still face economic challenges as well as local opposition ...
One major CBD retailer says the US Postal Service’s decision to stop shipping CBD vaping products isn’t affecting his business at all – because he isn’t complying ...
There are incorrect reports that a proposed bill in Florida would regulate delta-8 THC products in the state. In fact the bill will place limitations on the sale of all hemp-derived products ...
Cannabis firms continued to expand their footprint through to the end of 2021, with the lucrative US market being the strategic focus of many acquisitions, covering retail chains and tech companies ...
The potential of psychedelics to treat a range of mental health conditions continues to attract increasing levels of funding for clinical trials as firms work towards bringing them into mainstream medical use ...
Luxembourg will become the first European country to establish a legal regulatory framework allowing adults to grow and use cannabis for personal use and to trade seeds ...
Mexico’s Senate has drafted new legislation that, if approved, would legalise and regulate recreational cannabis consumption, sales, cultivation, import, export and...
Hemp varieties with up to 0.3% THC will soon be able to be added to the European common variety list following a vote by the European Council to adopt an EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)...
A market that cannot innovate stagnates – and that is exactly what is happening with CBD in the UK because of delays in the novel food application process which mean companies cannot introduce any new...
The incoming German ‘traffic light’ coalition government’s promise to legalise recreational cannabis for adults puts it on track to be the first major European nation to take such action ...
Nancy Mace, a first-term Republican Congresswoman from South Carolina, recently introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would decriminalise cannabis at the federal level ...
Legal recreational cannabis in South Dakota will have to wait following the state Supreme Court’s controversial decision to invalidate Amendment A, a ballot initiative passed by voters a year ago ...
Malawi has asked former world heavyweight boxing chamption Mike Tyson to be ambassador for its cannabinoid industry, where new legislation is coming in. A civil rights group opposes this ...
The newly elected German governing coalition has followed through on pre-election promises and included a plan for cannabis legalisation in its coalition agreement – but many questions remain to be answered ...
A German hemp producer and retailer is going to court hoping to overturn a rejection of its application to import hemp products from Austria. The new German government may pre-empt matters if it makes cannabis...
Questions on European policies banning flowers and outlining permitted THC levels in food ingredients have been raised by a commentary from the EC to a French proposal ...
Switzerland inched closer towards legalising recreational and medical cannabis as a committee of the upper parliamentary chamber backed a proposal to regulate the market ...
The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade is planning to clarify the definitions of definition of industrial hemp and the varieties that can be cultivated for industrial purposes by March/April 2022 ...
As the market for medical cannabis goes on growing, dispensaries continue to drive merger and acquisition activity in the US as multi-state operators invest millions of dollars in expanding their retail footprint ...
Rahul Gupta has been confirmed by the US Senate as director of National Drug Control Policy, while president Joe Biden intends to nominate Robert Califf as head of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...