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Michigan Legalizes, Utah & Missouri Medical Cannabis at Midterms

ichigan has approved the legalization of cannabis at midterms election, while Utah and Missouri legalized medical cannabis at midterms 2018. Michigan has become the 10th state to legalize cannabis, while conservative strongholds Utah and Missouri have legalized medical cannabis. And there’s more positive news following the midterms. First, we take a look at Michigan. Michigan becomes […]

Mauro

November 7, 2018

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Must we reconsider the regulation of medicinal cannabis?

Text by Aleksi Hupli, Ph.D. candidate, University of Tampere Finland Full plant cannabis medication is a difficult fit in the Big Pharma model due to its complex chemical content. So the question is, which one needs to change; the system of regulating medical products or the way we the think of cannabis as medicine? As […]

Cannabis News Network

March 21, 2019

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Renowned drug activist Joep Oomen dies at 54

On Friday the 18th of March 2016 the renowned drug activist Joep Oomen unexpectedly passed away in his house in Antwerp. The cannabis community lost an icon who will be sorely missed.

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March 21, 2016

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Representatives of 14 countries will gather to talk about CBD

Do you want to know everything about the latest status of CBD? In Poland, this is discussed in the HempToday center. What are the regulations in the EU? How do the individual countries deal with advice from the EU to classify CBD as a novel food? And what about the US or UK and even […]

Cannabis News Network

August 17, 2019

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Should Cannabis Social Clubs be included in the legalization discussion?

Cannabis Social Clubs in Spain: legal or not? pain now counts more clubs than the Netherlands has coffeeshops. But whereas the coffeeshops in the Netherlands can sell cannabis openly (if they stick to the rules, which is difficult with an illegal supply chain), Cannabis Social Clubs were for a couple days actually legal in 2017. Few […]

Mauro

October 8, 2018

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Six candidates nominated for the innovation award “Hemp Product of the Year 2019”

Cannabis News Network will be at the 16th EIHA hemp conference, will we see you there? Register here and get your tickets For the second time, the innovation award “Hemp Product of the Year” will be granted to the young, innovative hemp industry for finding suitable applications and markets for industrial hemp-based products. Focus of […]

Cannabis News Network

May 31, 2019

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So what about hemp and CBD in China?

While the US only recently passed the 2018 Farm Bill which legalized industrial hemp, China is already ahead and has become the largest producer of hemp in the world with 400,000 acres/162,000 ha. Since a couple of years, China has also legalized the extraction of CBD from industrial hemp, which has been used in the increasing […]

Cannabis News Network

March 9, 2019

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Study: International law allows for the legalisation of cannabis

Dutch researchers Piet Hein van Kempen and Masha Fedorova of Radboud University published their findings today, confirming what Cannabis News Network concluded earlier this year with a mini-series on (medicinal) cannabis as a human right. This new study follows the same outcome as the Mexican’s High Court’s decision to grand four activists to grow, transport […]

Cannabis News Network

May 30, 2016

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Take medical use of cannabis seriously, patients can’t wait

After the World Health Organization (WHO) initially failed to produce their recommendations, on February 1st their recommendations to reschedule cannabis were leaked. Last week, the European Parliament came with their response: take medicinal cannabis seriously. It’s an important message, as clinical trials and the entire pharma chain is taking far too long for patients. The product […]

Cannabis News Network

February 21, 2019

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The Eliot Ness from Holland

At the court in The Hague this week, the testimony of witnesses in the case of the Tilburg’s coffeeshop pioneer Johan van Laarhoven begun. According to Steven Kompier of Cannabis News Network, who attended the hearings, the most important aspect has been left out in the mainstream media. Johan van Laarhoven, one of the first […]

Cannabis News Network

September 8, 2016

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