Two North American business groups signed a memorandum of understanding to support Canadian and American companies seeking to capitalize on the growth of the international cannabis market. The agreement between the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s International Cannabis Council and the American Trade Association for Cannabis and Hemp (ATACH) will... Read more
Mexico’s president says he won’t interfere with legislation to legalize marijuana and hemp when the country’s Congress takes up the bill next month. The comments from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador during a news conference Wednesday are significant because he previously indicated his administration’s focus was on regulating hemp... Read more
Colorado-based CBD extractor and private-label supplier Mile High Labs has entered a distribution deal with a subsidiary of a major UK convenience store group for its own consumer brand. The distribution agreement for Mile High’s CBD brand Mellow Greens was struck with Nisa Retail, which is owned by The... Read more
Draft legislation that would allow Brazilian farmers to grow cannabis for medical and industrial purposes on domestic soil for the first time has been submitted to the country’s lower house of Congress. The bill was delivered to the House of Deputies speaker this week by lawmakers Paulo Teixeira and... Read more
The CBD vape market in Germany would likely decline in coming years even without new restrictions and advertising bans for the non-nicotine e-cigarettes, analysts say. According to market researchers at CBD-Intel, the German CBD vape product market – estimated at $11 million this year – is expected to decline... Read more
A major convenience store broker has reached an agreement with a Canadian company to distribute its CBD drinks across the U.S. at gas stations including Circle K and Speedway. Kentwood, Michigan-based Shankman & Associates announced this week it had a deal with Centr Brands Corp., which recently launched its... Read more
Before Canopy Growth Corp. became the largest cannabis company in the world, it hired Ryan Douglas as its master grower in 2013. It was no small task at the time in Canada – where Ontario-based Canopy is based – because the country had just established regulations for its medical... Read more
London-based cannabis investment company World High Life says its CBD subsidiary Love Hemp has started construction on a bigger production facility. The company said the 3,500-square-foot facility will enable Love Hemp to increase production of its products including oils, cosmetics and capsules from the current 8,000 units per day... Read more
A Missouri hemp company is being sued for allegedly sending unsolicited advertising texts, the latest cannabis firm accused of violating federal laws against spamming. The federal lawsuit, filed Aug. 7 in Vermont, accuses Native Hemp Co. of using an automated dialing system “to bombard consumers’ mobile phones with non-emergency... Read more
CBD vape manufacturers and retailers in Germany will face a marketing and regulatory minefield starting in January because of recent changes to the country’s tobacco law. Under legislation passed by the German Bundestag on July 2, non-nicotine e-cigarettes and refillable containers will be regulated the way that their nicotine... Read more
