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Panama: The National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC) has published the results of a survey conducted in over 16,000 homes, which found only 7%
UK: Hemp Today said today that the Food Standards Agency (FSA) had rejected a Freedom of Information request concerning companies whose products are under CBD safety
Australia: The Greens party intends to introduce a bill to legalise recreational cannabis, press reports. The party is currently drafting the bill, which it expects
Italy: A hard-line stance against cannabis can be expected in Italy after the far-right Brothers of Italy party (Fratelli d’Italia) took first place in Sunday’s
Brazil: The National Public Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has clarified that medical cannabis products cannot be sold through delivery services. Cannabis-derived products previously allowed
Colombia: Twenty-five members of the Chamber of Deputies have urged president Gustavo Petro in a letter to support the bill on recreational cannabis for
US - Arkansas: The Arkansas Supreme Court decided yesterday (22nd September) that the votes will be counted for the ballot measure that would legalise
Paraguay: Members of the Senate Committee for the Prevention and Fight Against Drug Trafficking and Related Crimes held a meeting on 21st September with
Canada: The federal government has launched a legislative review of the Cannabis Act to determine the impact of the legalisation of recreational use among youth and
World: Jagjit Pavadia, president of the independent, quasi-judicial International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), told a meeting of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs yesterday that
Spain: The General Council of Official Colleges of Pharmacists (CGCOF) wants greater assurances on the use of medical cannabis, press reports. CGCOF vice president Jordi de Dalmases
US - Minnesota: Medical cannabis company Vireo Health has filed a lawsuit against the state alleging that House File (HF) 4065 – which allows the sale
US - Oklahoma: The Oklahoma Supreme Court decided yesterday that the ballot initiative to legalise recreational cannabis in the state could not appear on the
Czech Republic: The Pirates party, liberal progressive members of the governing coalition, has presented a comprehensive analysis of the potential impacts of regulating
US - New York: The Cannabis Control Board (CCB) has resolved to adopt revised regulations for the home cultivation of cannabis for medical use. Certified medical cannabis
US - California: Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law a number of new bills relating to cannabis. Assembly Bill 2188 prohibits employers, with a
US - California: Assembly Bill 1885, newly signed into law, expands the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act to cover cannabis products
EU: The European Commission has published a draft delegated regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on hazard classes and criteria for the classification,
Austria: Transport minister Leonore Gewessler, of the centre-left Green Party, is drawing up a bill to place a legal limit on THC for driving
Portugal: At the Medical Cannabis Conference, the chairman of the Portuguese Society of Pharmacists and former member of the Ministry of Health, Hélder
Germany: Two Social Democratic Party (SPD) parliamentary members, Carmen Wegge and Dirk Heidenblut, have presented some SPD internal key points about cannabis legalisation on Instagram.
Germany: Federal minister of finance, Christian Lindner, from the Free Democratic Party (FDP), said in a state election campaign that cannabis legalisation could
Czech Republic: This week, the Pirates – a liberal progressive small political party in the government cabinet, whose member is Zdeněk Hřib, the
Belgium: The Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment updated its positive list of already notified herbal products for smoking, which
US - Oklahoma: Three challenges were filed to a ballot initiative to legalise recreational cannabis during a mandatory ten-day window that opponents had to
US - federal: A bipartisan group of members of Congress wrote a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Rober Califf criticising
US - Nevada: A judge has ruled that the Nevada Board of Pharmacy may no longer list cannabis as a Schedule I drug, press reports.
US - federal: Representative Jared Huffman, a California Democrat, has introduced the Small and Homestead Independent Producers (SHIP) Act, which would allow small cannabis cultivators and
Thailand: The House of Representatives voted 198-136 to withdraw the Hemp and Cannabis Bill from the legislative agenda and return it to the drafting
Germany: Carmen Wegge, Social Democratic Party (SPD) spokesperson on cannabis legalisation, has told the newspaper Die Zeit that legalisation “will come” and “not fail
US - Missouri: The Missouri Supreme Court declined to hear a lawsuit challenging a ballot initiative to legalise recreational cannabis, thereby clearing the final
Germany: Federal drugs commissioner Burkhard Blienert has retweeted the results of an Ipsos poll that found 61% of Germans support the full legalisation of
US - West Virginia: A proposal to cap THC in medical cannabis products at 10% has been rejected by the Medical Cannabis Advisory Board
US - Missouri: The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District has ruled that the signatures for a ballot initiative to legalise recreational cannabis
Thailand: The Cannabis and Hemp Bill was presented to Parliament yesterday with a decision expected by 19th September, press reports. The bill would allow the
UK - Scotland: The Scottish Medicines Consortium announced yesterday that Sativex was accepted for use within NHSScotland as treatment for relieving symptoms in adults with multiple sclerosis
Germany: The Bundestag Research Service, which produces non-partisan advice to politicians, has published a report stating that the planned legalisation of cannabis could conflict with
New Zealand: Two CBD liquids for oral use, Helius CBD25 Full Spectrum and Helius CBD100 Full Spectrum, have been verified by the Medical Cannabis Agency as meeting the minimum
Italy: Following the appeal by industry association Federcanapa against the decree on officinal plants, the Lazio Regional Administrative Tribunal (TAR) scheduled a new
Germany: As part of the recreational cannabis legalisation plan, the Bundestag announced a Health Committee delegation trip to Canada and the United States. Eight members
Paraguay: Last week the Ministry of Health issued Decree 7761/2022, wherein the maximum number of companies allowed to be granted a licence to
Switzerland: Sales of recreational cannabis as part of the pilot project in Basel, which were supposed to start on 15th September, will be delayed because the products did
EU: During a meeting of European anti-drug coordinators, organised under the Czech EU presidency, the Czech anti-drug coordinator Jindřich Vobořil called for a
US - Federal: Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon, sponsor of the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, said that a draft
Israel: The Ministry of Health has opened a public consultation to change the current system on the prescription of medical cannabis, which requires a prescription and a
Czech Republic: National anti-drug coordinator Jindřich Vobořil is going to submit a draft law on a controlled recreational cannabis market, specifying conditions for
Costa Rica: President Rodrigo Chaves, during a government press conference, signed the industrial hemp regulations on the Cannabis for Medicinal and Therapeutic Use and on Hemp for Food and
Canada - British Columbia: The BC General Employees Union (BCGEU) and the BC Public Service Agency (PSA) have reached a provisional deal to end
Bermuda: Governor Rena Lalgie will withhold royal assent to the Cannabis Licensing Act 2022 at the instruction of the Queen of the UK, press reports. The
