Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suspended reforms on plans to allow cannabis growers to export their product due to concerns that MMJ could find its way to the black market. One Canadian company that expanded to Israel last year, Stayner, …
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Ontario is weighing recreational cannabis consumption in hotels, lounges and RVs, a move that would create a “‘potentially huge” new tourism industry in Canada’s most-populous province if the rules are adopted, according to industry leaders. The propos…
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Tilray said it raised 60 million Canadian dollars ($47 million) in financing that will allow the licensed producer to ramp up marijuana production capacity nearly fivefold this year to meet demand in Europe and Canada’s rapidly expanding medical cannab…
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The New Mexico health department is alleging that a medical marijuana grower submitted falsified audits and is taking steps to revoke the company’s license. Mother Earth Herbs denies it falsified audit reports and has requested a hearing to challenge t…
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Far from the flashy marijuana dispensaries in Las Vegas, hemp farms in rural northern and southern Nevada can’t keep up with booming demand for flower for CBD production.
The result is a blazing-hot wholesale market for hemp flower, with growers report…
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Hemp may be easy to grow, but raising a profitable crop is no slam dunk. That’s what a Vermont hemp processor is learning after a landowner sued him for not delivering thousands of dollars she was hoping would save her mother’s home. A laws…
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A lawmaker with South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party is attempting something that would have been unthinkable even one year ago in the socially conservative country — legalizing and regulating medical cannabis. Rep. Shin Chang-hyun introduced a bill t…
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The total number of job postings for the U.S. cannabis industry increased by 445% in 2017, a study by job search website ZipRecruiter shows. The online job platform noted the spike is dramatically higher than the 18% increase in cannabis-related job po…
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A raft of CBD-related measures are advancing in conservative states where lawmakers seem unwilling to wait for federal courts to decide the legal fate of cannabis-derived treatments low in THC. Kansas lawmakers are looking at giving CBD legal cover, a …
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India’s leading purveyor of traditional medicine is trying to pry open the country’s medical and industrial cannabis markets and, in doing so, create the largest medical marijuana market in the world. Hundreds of scientists employed by Patanjali Ayurve…
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