At the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, officials stripped the Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati of his gold medal after he tested positive for THC. Rebagliati contested the ruling. He said he had quit smoking pot to train for the games, but had inhaled secondhand smoke at snowboarder parties. The appeal worked. After 36 hours Rebagliati’s
Uganda has secured contracts to export medical marijuana products to Canada and Germany worth more than R2 billion in June. South Africa is also one of the markets for unrefined cannabis buds/flower. Since December 2017, Kampala has exported the product to South Africa’s National Analytical Forensic Services in Pretoria. An order to Uganda’s Industrial Hemp
With more than $7 million in legal pot purchased from P.E.I. Cannabis in the first six months of legalization, it’s clear Islanders are interested in consuming the product, and interest in growing marijuana is also, well, growing, say retailers. Veseys Seeds in York, P.E.I., has devoted six pages in its catalogue to growing at home —
A Buddhist monk fishes out a vial of cannabis oil from his robe and puts a drop under his tongue — one of many flocking to a weed festival in northeastern Thailand, where excitement is building over a medical marijuana boom. Thailand became the first country in Southeast Asia to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes
The legal cannabis market is increasingly big business. Whilst growth projections vary widely, they only point in one direction: up. The US legal cannabis market is projected by RBC Capital Markets to be worth $47bn in annual sales within a decade. A host of listed businesses have come to market, concentrated on the Toronto Stock
The global legal marijuana market is expected to reach USD 146.4 billion by the end of 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. Usually a topic of debate, due to its medical benefits, cannabis also has a huge potential to boost India’s economy and create millions of jobs. As a nation, we
Australia’s first ever tax-payer funded medical marijuana greenhouse has opened in Sydney. The Federal Government relaxed medical cannabis restrictions in March 2018, paving the way for the greenhouse’s creation. To read more…
This year has been one of exceptional growth for Chinese cannabis production. But as interest in the fast-growing market surges, government authorities are clamping down on its production. Companies like Shanghai Shunho New Materials Technology Co and Zhejiang-based Conba Group have been moving into the space since the beginning of the year. And just this month,
Here are some notable stories and events to watch for in the coming days: MAKING IT OFFICIAL: Contracts between Germany’s Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices and the three companies it tentatively selected to cultivate and distribute its medical cannabis could be formalized as early as Wednesday after a mandatory 10-day appeals process expires. Ontario,
Motorists caught driving after consuming cannabis will no longer face having their licences immediately revoked in Germany. A federal court in Leipzig ruled the licensing authority must now first determine, with a medical evaluation, whether the marijuana user is fit to drive, daily newspaper Deutsche Welle reported. German law stated that a driver’s licence could be revoked if they could not drive due to the consumption of