This story originally appeared at Marijuana Business Daily. Canadian cannabis producer Canopy Growth Corp. is suing UK-based GW Pharmaceuticals in U.S. federal court, alleging that GW is knowingly infringing upon Canopy’s intellectual property. GW used a Canopy-patented method to extract the CBD that’s the active ingredient in its Epidiolex medication, according to a complaint filed […]
California’s new warning label as it appears on a La Vida Verde cannabis product. (Photo courtesy of La Vida Verde) A version of this story first appeared at Marijuana Business Daily. California’s hemp-derived CBD manufacturers are at risk of legal “whiplash,” one industry attorney says, after a new mandate requiring health warning labels for all […]
BastCore, an Alabama-based hemp fiber company, has turned a former steam plant outside the capital of Montgomery into a processing facility, one of the first in the United States to offer a key link in the supply chain between Alabama’s farmers and hemp-derived product makers. Final electrical work was underway inside the processing facility last […]
The European Union’s drug agency has signaled that it is mulling the legal and commercial status of CBD and cannabis-based products in Europe in a new report. The Lisbon-based European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction published the report on Monday, detailing the results of a study that kicked off in 2018 and aimed […]
Italy’s agricultural ministry has named four dozen government, regulatory and industry stakeholders to a new working group for the country’s hemp sector. According to a decree published last week, the working group is expected “to perform consultative and monitoring duties” for the hemp sector. The commission’s 48 members include representatives from: The Ministry of Agricultural, Food […]
Authorities in Uruguay have given Australia-based pharmaceutical company Creso Pharma the green light to market its line of CBD animal products in the South American country. Creso Pharma, which offers a range of cannabis-derived wellness and lifestyle products for humans and animals, said Monday it received regulatory approval from Uruguay’s Ministry of Agriculture and Animal […]
Aphria and Tilray, two Canadian giants in cannabis, have agreed to combine operations and form an international bohemoth with combined equity value of approximately 5 billion Canadian dollars ($3.9 billion). The merged entity includes Manitoba Harvest, a Winnipeg maker of hemp food products that was acquired last year by Tilray. Based on data reported by […]
Regulators in Australia have amended the country’s drug law and removed a prescription requirement for some CBD products, paving the way for greater consumer access but saddling CBD makers with efficacy requirements that threaten to create barriers to market entry. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) said Tuesday it was amending the country’s Poisons Standard to […]
The research arm of the U.S. Department of Justice has awarded $350,000 to a federal laboratory to develop a reliable method for measuring THC levels to distinguish industrial hemp from marijuana. The 2018 Farm Bill allowed the cultivation of industrial hemp in the United States by providing a threshold of 0.3% THC for the entire […]
Massachusetts’ governor has agreed to allow marijuana dispensaries to sell hemp and hemp-derived products grown and manufactured in the state. The change makes Massachusetts the latest to open up marijuana dispensaries to hemp operators and gives Massachusetts’ 79 farmers and 19 hemp processors their first route to selling CBD in foods, drinks and dietary supplements. […]
