By Richard Fama and Kristin Keehan The passage of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, commonly known as the “Farm Bill”, removed hemp and all of its cannabinoids, including CBD, from the Controlled Substances Act.However, excitement over the passage of this legislation was quickly tempered by the Food and... Read more
Yet, despite irrationally exuberant investment in cannabis and industrial hemp growing, processing and sale, massive unrealized early stage funding opportunity exists for tackling environmental issues including organic and hazardous waste collection, processing and disposal. Other than death and taxes, life’s only certainty is waste. Yet, despite irrationally exuberant investment... Read more
One of these unseen yet paramount dangers for a cannabis brand is ineffective online youth safety efforts. In this era of social media and messaging apps, do you know that in California, companies cannot communicate with people under 21 in any way? Similarly, most U.S. states and Canada implemented... Read more
An appellate court has sided with a Florida medical cannabis business, once again delivering a blow to the law directing the state’s medical cannabis market. Tampa-based Florigrown sued the state after it was denied a medical cannabis business license. In 2016, Florida voters approved medical cannabis legalization; state legislators... Read more
TORONTO, July 15, 2019 /CNW/ – PRESS RELEASE – Flower One Holdings Inc. officially welcomes Kellen O’Keefe to the team as chief strategy officer. O’Keefe hails most recently from MedMen Enterprises, a cannabis retailer and brand. As the senior vice president of business development of MedMen, he was instrumental... Read more
TORONTO, July 15, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) –PRESS RELEASE — Aleafia Health Inc. has announced that on July 12, 2019, Aleafia Health’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Aleafia Farms Inc., secured a License Amendment under Health Canada’s Cannabis Regulations authorizing cannabis cultivation for the entirety of the company’s Port Perry Outdoor Grow facility. The... Read more
TORONTO, July 15, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) –PRESS RELEASE — Aleafia Health Inc. has announced that on July 12, 2019, Aleafia Health’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Aleafia Farms Inc., secured a License Amendment under Health Canada’s Cannabis Regulations authorizing cannabis cultivation for the entirety of the company’s Port Perry Outdoor Grow facility. The... Read more
U.S. health authorities are taking final comments from the public on how to regulate over-the-counter cannabis extracts such as CBD. The suggestions are due to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by midnight ET Tuesday on how the agency should regulate cannabis-derived products. The FDA has vowed to expedite its... Read more
Currently, seven of Canada’s top ten cannabis patent holders are major multi-national pharmaceutical companies, according to a joint research project by Washington D.C.-based New Frontier Data and London-based cannabis bio-technology firm, Grow Biotech. The list includes Ciba-Geigy AG (Switzerland) with 21 patents; Pfizer Products (United States) with 14; and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Sweden) with 13….
Ryan Allway July 15th, 2019 VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 15, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Emerald Health Therapeutics, Inc. (“Emerald”) (TSXV: EMH; OTCQX: EMHTF) has received its cultivation license from Health Canada for the 12-acre outdoor grow area at its new organic cannabis operation in Metro Vancouver, BC. The outdoor... Read more
