Ben Stevens

Frances' incoming medical cannabis framework is expected to take the final step before it can be signed into law in the ‘coming weeks'.

The criminalisation of industrial hemp and CBD flower across European nations has, sadly, only continued to spread since we published our last edition of ‘Hemp Wars' in May.

Helius Therapeutics has today announced a supply agreement with the University of Auckland for a new Phase 2 trial into cannabis as a sleep aid for patients which chronic back pain.

Spain's medical cannabis framework will finally start reaching patients over the coming days and weeks, marking a significant milestone in a four-year battle for access.

UK medical cannabis cultivator Glass Pharms has partnered with leading clinic Releaf to bring cannabis containing meaningful levels of THCV (Tetrahydrocannabivarin), a cannabinoid linked to reduced appetite in emerging research, to patients in the UK for the first time since 1973.

A Michigan cultivator is fighting to overturn a landmark court decision which has thrown the enforceability of cannabis industry contracts across the US into question.

UK medical cannabis patients have been told that they'll have access to a six-month stockpile of Bedrolite, following weeks of uncertainty in the wake of Bedrocan's collapse.

Medical cannabis’s cultivar names have, over the past two years, become an increasingly controversial part of the European prescription framework. In the UK, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has been quietly raising concerns with clinicians and clinics over the ‘recreational’ brand names common throughout the European medical market. As James Duckenfield, CEO […]

SynBiotic SE, once one of the largest and most promising cannabis companies in Germany, has announced plans to file for insolvency and had its shares suspended on the Xetra and Frankfurt stock exchanges.

The Council of the European Union has adopted proposals that would see the whole hemp plant, including inflorescences and leaves, recognised as an ordinary agricultural product.