In the announcement by ANVISA, the National Agency for Health Surveillance of Brazil, a new class of medical cannabis products will be prescribed by doctors and sold through pharmacies, enabling safe and legal patient access.
Cannabis export from Israel has received the final government approval, after one year of waiting.
The Israeli cannabis industry has been stymied largely for quite a while, largely in part to U.S. President Trump asking the Prime Minister and defacto Minister of Health of Israel, Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu to halt the export of cannabis flower from Israel.
Brazil has become the third Latin American country to regulate the sale of medical marijuana after Uruguay and Colombia. Mexico could soon follow the trend.
Marijuana legalization seems to be making strides across the globe, but there are still plenty of pockets where the idea faces fierce resistance, namely in Asia.
A marijuana company with strong global ambitions, Aurora Cannabis (NYSE:ACB) has secured one of the first approvals for a medical cannabis product in the Republic of Ireland.
Thailand’s Public Health Minister has proposed farmers be allowed to grow cannabis plants under a joint scheme with the state.
Anutin Charnvirakul, who is also deputy prime minister, said he has signed a draft regulation on allowing farmers to grow cannabis. The regulation will be examined by the Council of State and then submitted to the cabinet for consideration.
According to experts, African countries have a good chance of playing a leading role in the world market for the cultivation of cannabis for medical purposes.
That is the assumption of the participants at the “CannaTech” conference in Cape Town. More than 500 scientists, entrepreneurs, and founders of the cannabis industry met at the two-day event.
Two bills were introduced last week in Trinidad and Tobago’s House of Representatives that could change the landscape of marijuana regulation across the several islands that make up the Caribbean country.
Since 1999, after intense lobbying from unions representing French farmers, the THC limit for European hemp has been capped at 0.2%. Yet two decades hence, that standard is being blamed for negatively impacting the viability of the European hemp industry.
New Frontier Data, the authority in data, analytics, and business intelligence for the global cannabis industry, just made public its Zimbabwe hemp and cannabis cultivation study, Hemp Cultivation in Africa: Zimbabwe - A Case Study (2019), presented to the Zimbabwean government in May of 2019, ahead of Zimbabwe’s hemp legalization announcement at Victoria Falls’ New Frontier Data-led InterCannAlliance event.
