SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will spend $20 million on a public awareness campaign about the dangers of vaping nicotine and cannabis products and step up efforts to halt the sale of illicit products amid a rise in vaping-related illnesses. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the actions Monday as... Read more
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A short walk from police headquarters in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, a cluster of bustling shops are openly selling packaging and hardware that can be used to produce counterfeit marijuana vapes that have infected California’s cannabis market. Bootleggers eager to profit off unsuspecting... Read more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration admonished the electric cigarette company Juul Labs last week for claims that its products are safer than conventional cigarettes. In a letter dated September 9, the FDA warned the company over its assertions that the Juul is “much safer than cigarettes,” and that... Read more
Paraguay will begin accepting applications for the domestic production of cannabis for medical and research purposes next month, according to an announcement made last week by the country’s health minister. Julio Mazzolini, the minister of public health and social welfare, said in a press conference in Asunción on Thursday... Read more
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has jumped in with other politicians to demand a quickly-enacted ban on flavored tobacco vaping products. His Sunday announcement came in the midst of a little-understood string of vaping-related deaths by severe lung disease, despite the fact that some of the dead were known... Read more
A federal judge has thrown out Indiana’s ban on smokable hemp, calling it unconstitutional for states to ban one type of hemp because they can’t easily distinguish it from marijuana. The judge sided with the Midwest Hemp Council and seven Indiana hemp wholesalers that sued over Indiana’s July law... Read more
CannTrust Discloses Notice of Licence Suspension VAUGHAN, ON, Sept. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ – CannTrust Holdings Inc. (“CannTrust” or the “Company”, TSX: TRST, NYSE: CTST) announced that it received late this morning a Notice of Licence Suspension (the “Notice”) under section 64(1) of the Cannabis Act (Canada). The Notice cites... Read more
Supreme Cannabis Announces Q4 and 2019 Fiscal Year End Financial Results Achieves first positive Adjusted EBITDA¹ quarter of $3.2 million. Q4 2019 net revenue was $19 million, a 90% increase from Q3 2019 ($10 million). Fiscal 2019 total revenue was $41.8 million, a 370% increase from fiscal 2018 ($8.9... Read more
Three federal agencies—the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)—are now accepting comments from the public on cannabis-related topics such as hemp pesticides and the legal classification of marijuana globally. In a notice published in the Federal Register last month,... Read more
