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France: A group of deputies from the far-right party Rassemblement National (National Front) has proposed an amendment to the Finance Bill 2025 to
France: The government has presented the Social Security Financing Bill for 2025, and there are currently no amendments proposed to extend the medical cannabis
France: The new prime minister, Michel Barnier, has released the composition of his government, mostly from Les Républicains (the conservative-leaning party of the
France: The rollout of medical cannabis in France, initially expected for 2025, has been delayed until 2026 due to political and administrative setbacks.
France: President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Michel Barnier as prime minister. Barnier, 73, is a former European Commissioner and was the chief negotiator
France: President Emmanuel Macron has dissolved the National Assembly and called for snap parliamentary elections on 30th June and 7th July after Marine Le
France: The government has notified the EU Commission's TRIS database of a decision by the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health
France: Senator Thomas Dossus from the Ecologist group introduced a bill that aims to allow two-year territorial experiments to legalise the recreational use of cannabis
France: The Ministry of Health has published a decree establishing the specifications for cannabis-based medicines used during the experiment until the first batches of medical
France: The National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM) has issued a press release concerning updates on the medical
France: The National Assembly has definitively approved the 2024 Social Security Financing Bill, which establishes a temporary ad hoc status for cannabis-based medicines. These
France: The National Assembly has passed the first reading of the 2024 Social Security Financing Bill without amending the government’s proposal, which aims
France: The government has submitted an amendment to the 2024 Social Security Financing Bill which aims to establish a temporary ad hoc status for
France: The minister of health, Aurélien Rousseau, has announced an extension of the medical cannabis experiment programme, which was due to end in
France: The government has presented to the parliament the 2024 Social Security Financing Bill, which does not introduce a comprehensive regulatory framework for
EU: The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published France’s intention to submit CBD to the registry of harmonised classification and labelling (CLH) due to its
France: The National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM) has made the decision to classify hexahydrocannabinol (HHC), hexahydrocannabiphorol (HHCP)
France: Senator Gilbert-Luc Devinaz of the Socialist, Ecologist and Republican group has introduced a bill to regulate recreational cannabis and cannabis-derived products as a state monopoly.
France: Health minister François Braun has said that hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) will be banned in the coming weeks. "It is not classified as narcotic
France: Deputy Victor Habert-Dassault, from the Republicans, presented a parliamentary question to the minister of health asking whether the government is considering banning
France: The National Drug Safety Agency (ANSM) is warning of a possible shortage of CBD-only medicines in its medical cannabis pilot programme and suggests alternatives, such
France: The National Drug Safety Agency (ANSM) has updated the list of community pharmacies and healthcare establishments authorised to order and dispense medical
France: The Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) – a government and Parliament advisory body – adopted an opinion in favour of recreational
France: The highest administrative court in France, the Council of State, published the judgement that annulled Article 1.II of the Decree of 30th December 2021
France: The highest administrative court in France, the Council of State, ruled on the legitimacy of Article 1.II of the Decree of 30th
France: The highest administrative court in France, the Council of State, was due to rule today on the legitimacy of the Decree of 30th December
French Polynesia: With 33 votes and 20 abstentions, the Assembly has approved a law legalising the medical and industrial use of cannabis. Cultivation of hemp
France: The Senate has approved a resolution on hemp sector economic development and hemp-derived product regulation. Among other things, the Senate is calling
France: The National Assembly Social Affairs Committee has approved an amendment to the 2023 Social Security Financing Bill to extend by a year an experiment
France: A group of 31 senators from the Socialist, Green and Republican parties have issued a joint statement through the newspaper Le Monde calling for
France: Senator Sabine Van Heghe of the Socialist, Ecologist and Republican group has submitted a parliamentary question to new health minister Brigitte Bourguignon asking whether she is
France: At the request of senator Catherine Conconne, the Senate has published an updated comparative legislation report on the decriminalisation and legalisation of recreational
France: Following president Emmanuel Macron’s loss of a majority in the National Assembly, with the left-wing alliance led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon taking 131 seats and Marine
France: The results of yesterday’s first round of voting in the National Assembly elections suggest the second round on 19th June will be a close
France: Deputy Moetai Brotherson has introduced into the National Assembly a bill to launch a five-year pilot programme on recreational and medical cannabis in the overseas
France: The Ministry of Health and Solidarity enacted a decree which allows the cultivation of medical cannabis from 1st March 2022 by amending the
