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Challenges for US Companies Entering the EU

by Michael Sassano It is very clear to most cannabis industry analysts that the United States is the undisputed heavyweight in terms of cannabis, ringing in around $13 billion in annual sales pre-federal legalization. The opportunities are very strong in…

European CBD Market Is Booming – And Investors Finally Recognize It

Cannabis has become one of the most innovative and disruptive industries globally with rapid growth potential, and thanks to a more progressive legislative approach in Europe, investors are now plowing millions into the nascent cannabidiol (CBD) market. According to CB…

North Macedonia Awaits Marijuana Laws to Become a ‘Cannabis Superpower’

March 25, 2020
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In a desolate industrial zone of this capital city, a cannabis grow house is under construction that, when finished, will span 178,000 square feet, about the size of a Walmart superstore. At full capacity, 17 tons of marijuana a year,…

Dutch Cities Try a ‘Weed Test’ to Fix a Quirk of Legal Cannabis

September 11, 2019
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The Netherlands’ permissive approach to cannabis may be well-known, but the country’s coffeeshops (as cannabis cafés are called) have long grappled with a head-scratching contradiction. While the coffeshops’ trade is perfectly legal, that’s not the case for growing and producing…

UK advised by Massachusetts Commissioner to recruit former drug dealers if marijuana is legalised

Former drug dealers should be recruited and trained to produce safe, legal cannabis if the UK decides to legalise marijuana, the head of an American programme overseeing the sale of the narcotic has urged. The Commissioner in charge of legal…

Tilray® Exports 2:100 CBD Oil to the United Kingdom

PRESS RELEASE Tilray is supplying medical cannabis to pediatric patient in need NANAIMO, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 11, 2018-- Tilray Inc. (NASDAQ:TLRY), a global leader in cannabis research, production and distribution, announced today that Tilray 2:100, a product produced at Tilray’s…

Medical Marijuana Products To Be Legalized In UK

Specialist doctors in the UK will be able to legally prescribe cannabis-derived medicinal products by autumn, the home secretary has announced. Those that meet safety and quality standards are to be made legal for patients with an "exceptional clinical need",…

Decision on medical cannabis in England within weeks

The government says it will reach a decision within the next few weeks on whether laws around medical cannabis will be changed. The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs is now assessing the "balance of harms and public health…

UN Finds That Britain Was The Largest Legal Cannabis Producer in 2016

Britain is the world’s largest producer of legal cannabis, a new report from the United Nations has revealed. Ninety five tonnes of marijuana was produced in the UK in 2016 for medicinal and scientific use, accounting for 44.9 per cent of the world total, its International…

Tilray Receives License to Produce Medical Cannabis in the European Union

September 7, 2017
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PRESS RELEASE Company Announces €20 Million Investment to Build EU Campus and Begin Operations this Year Located in the BIOCANT Research Park in Cantanhede, Portugal, Tilray’s EU Campus will cultivate, process, package, and distribute GMP-grade medical cannabis products to qualified…

First-Hand Report: The Current Status of Cannabis Regulation in Germany, Europe

As the historic summer of 2017 comes to a close, many of us find ourselves literally, or figuratively, “on the train to Berlin” in search of new markets, new partners, and new opportunities in the medical marijuana space. As I…

‘It’s California in 1995 All Over Again, Man’: Opportunities and Problems Piling Up in the European Cannabis Market

August 11, 2017
Philip J. Cenedella IV
Europe, Germany, International, Processing
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“It’s California in 1995 all over again, man.” That was a comment I overhead during a conversation between an American and a German entrepreneur at the Mary Jane Berlin event held in Berlin in the second week of June, 2017.…

The State of Cannabusiness in Germany

June 27, 2017
Philip J. Cenedella IV
Europe, Germany, International, Policy & Legal
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As a cannabis business executive, you undoubtedly have been following some of the significant events happening in Europe and you have asked yourself: “How does this affect my plans?” It may be the German government establishing a nationwide medical marijuana…