LATEST ALERTSUS - Minnesota: Governor Tim Waltz told former governor Jesse Ventura that legalising recreational cannabis will be "one of the first" things passed
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Malta: The head of the Authority for the Responsible Use of Cannabis (ARUC) Mariella Dimech has been let go from her position as
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US - Colorado: Proposition 122, a ballot measure to decriminalise the possession and use and allow for regulated distribution of certain psychedelic substances, appears poised
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Ireland: The Irish High Court has rejected a case contesting the zero-tolerance policy for any THC in CBD products in the country, press reports. The case was brought
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US - Kansas: A lawsuit challenging the seizure of over $100,000 in delta-8 THC products by state authorities has been dismissed. The suit alleged that the state
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Colombia: The Global Commission on Drugs Policy (GCDP), whose members include a number of former heads of state and which advocates drug policies based
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US - South Dakota: Voters rejected a ballot initiative to decriminalise recreational cannabis, press reports. The result comes as something of a surprise since a
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US - North Dakota: Voters rejected a ballot initiative to legalise recreational cannabis, press reports. The initiative would have allowed adults to purchase and possess up to 1
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US - Missouri: Voters passed a ballot initiative to legalise recreational cannabis, amending the state constitution, press reports. The initiative also makes several amendments to the
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US - Maryland: Voters passed a ballot initiative to legalise recreational cannabis, press reports. Approval of the ballot question enacts accompanying legislation – House Bill 837 – that will eventually
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US - Arkansas: Voters rejected a ballot initiative to legalise recreational cannabis, press reports. The initiative would have amended the state constitution to legalise recreational cannabis and allowed
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Chile: The Senate decided yesterday to drop provisions allowing cultivation of cannabis for medicinal purposes, possession and cultivation of up to 500 g of cannabis and personal
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Finland: The government yesterday submitted a TRIS notification to the EU seeking to classify ten new substances as psychoactive substances banned from the consumer market. They
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Guyana: The National Assembly yesterday passed the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) (Amendment) Bill 2021, decriminalising possession of up to 30 g of cannabis, press
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Mexico: Alejandro Armenta, president of the Board of Directors of the Senate, has announced that senators intend to separate legislation to regulate industrial hemp
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US - federal: Voters in the US will today determine in the midterm elections who controls Congress for the next two years. Currently, the
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US - Federal: A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Florida agricultural commissioner Nikki Fried that argued that the federal prohibition on buying or
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Costa Rica: On 4th November the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock approved the first licence to cultivate and process hemp for food and
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Argentina: On 4th November the minister of health, Carla Vizzotti, encouraged doctors to prescribe medicinal cannabis to patients, press reports. The minister also
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Australia: The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has fined two medical cannabis companies for alleged unlawful advertising of unregistered medicinal cannabis products on their websites. According
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Malta: During an interview, the president of the Authority for the Responsible Use of Cannabis (ARUC), Mariella Dimech, said that the authority plans to issue
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Canada: Ottawa Public Health (OPH) plans to make several recommendations to Health Canada as part of the Cannabis Act Review that was launched in September, press reports.
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US - Utah: The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food (UDAF) issued a statement about synthetic and derivative cannabinoids, such as delta-8 THC and THC-O,
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Thailand: The Democrat Party, which is part of the governing coalition, is calling for cannabis to be placed back on the country’s narcotics list
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UK: Yesterday (2nd November) Steve Brine was newly elected as chair of the Health and Social Care Committee. Brine was a junior minister
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Israel: With most votes counted after yesterday’s general election, the Likud party led by former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared set to unseat
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US - federal: US Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer has said in debate that he is “very close” to introducing a bill that would combine the SAFE
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US - New York: Local officials in Rotterdam want to introduce legislation to regulate where and when cannabis-related businesses can operate within the
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Czech Republic: Drugs commissioner Jindrich Voboril is to present a first draft of the bill to legalise recreational cannabis in March 2023, media
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Brazil: The candidate from the left-wing Workers' Party (PT), Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, won the presidential elections with 50.9% of the votes.
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US - New Jersey: The Assembly has passed Assembly Bill A3946, which now moves to the Senate. The bill would allow cannabis businesses to deduct
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US - Delaware: Governor John Carney vetoed House Bill (HB) 276, which would have allowed medical cannabis patients to possess firearms. Federal law prohibits unlawful users
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Thailand: The Thai Department of Agriculture (TDA) has posted in the Royal Gazette the requirements to import hemp and cannabis seeds. Seed imports are allowed
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US - New Jersey: The New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission has approved its first annual recreational cannabis business licences. In total, 18 licences were approved, of
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UK: The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) issued a ruling yesterday ordering the removal of advertorials promoting Blessed CBD in the media. The ASA upheld several
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EU: The Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs has told CannIntelligence that some EU member states expressed concerns during the 1st March meeting of the Working Group
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US Virgin Islands: Senator Janelle Sarauw has announced that her bills to legalise recreational cannabis in the US Virgin Islands (USVI) and expunge
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EU: The reform of the EU’s Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation is expected to be postponed until the end
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Germany: The Ministry of Health has today published its key issues paper on the legalisation of recreational cannabis. Major points are: cannabis no longer
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US - Alabama: The Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission (AMCC) has sent Cannabis Business License application forms to those who requested them during the required
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Russia: A Moscow court yesterday dismissed US basketball player Brittney Griner’s appeal against a nine-year prison sentence for drug smuggling and possession, press
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Brazil: The Federal Council of Medicine (CFM) has suspended a resolution restricting medical prescription of CBD after the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office announced an investigation into its legality. The
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Thailand: The Ministry of Public Health has published regulations in the Royal Gazette regarding CBD, hemp seed oil, and cannabis extracts in food products. The
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Hong Kong: CBD will be added to Hong Kong's list of narcotic drugs, thus banning all possession, sale, import, and export of CBD
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US - Washington, District of Columbia: Mayor Muriel Bowser has signed into law an emergency act that allows "non-resident cardholders" to self-certify as medical cannabis
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Brazil: After issuing a controversial resolution restricting the prescription of CBD for medical use, the Federal Council of Medicine announced that it will receive public
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EU: The European Pharmacopoeia has opened a comment period for draft standards on cannabis flowers for medicinal purposes. The draft standards cover the herbal drug defined as
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Finland: According to the new citizens’ initiative “Cannabis to be legal, regulated and taxed” published yesterday, the cannabis prohibition law should end in
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