New February Deadline Set For CBD Companies Looking To Secure UK Novel Food Authorisation

THE UK Food Standards Agency has set a new deadline of the end of February for the submission of data to support some CBD Novel Food applications, it has emerged. This comes as one UK company – British Cannabis –…

Industry Rocked As Leading UK Bank Shuts Its Doors To Cannabis Businesses

January 11, 2022
Ben Stevens
Banking, Finance & Real Estate, United Kingdom
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METRO Bank, one of the few institutions in the UK open to working with cannabis-related companies, is now closing its doors to the sector. The bank, which became the first high street bank in over 100 years to open in…

Cannabis-Cautious Financial Regulators Delay UK Cultivator’s London Stock Exchange Plans

HELLENIC Dynamics, set to become the first ever cannabis cultivation company to list on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), is now planning to launch its IPO later this month. The Greek cultivator announced its intention to list on the Standard…

Cookies Stores To Open On UK And Continental High Streets In Coming Weeks

INTERCURE, which calls itself the ‘most profitable and fastest growing’ cannabis company outside of North America, is poised to open a number of cannabis shops on UK high streets. The Israeli firm has set its sights on London as it…

Sound Familiar, London Mayor Sadiq Khan plans pilot to ‘decriminalise’ minor cannabis offences

Scheme could ‘divert young people found with small amount of cannabis’ away from arrest by police Downing Street has expressed concern over moves to end the prosecution of young people caught with cannabis in some London boroughs, under a pilot…

New THC Level Guidance Welcomed – But Further Concerns UK CBD Industry Is To Become Isolates Only

New THC Level Guidance Welcomed – But Further Concerns UK CBD Industry Is To Become Isolates OnlyMUCH-AWAITED guidance on the permitted levels of THC in UK CBD products has been met with a mixed response and sparked some concerns over…

Regulator Issues Warning To Non-Complaint CBD Firms As It Prepares to Publish Much-Anticipated Public List

THE head of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) says it is now only a matter of weeks before it publishes further details on the CBD products and companies which will be allowed to remain on the UK market. At an…

UK Government Fails To Back New Measures To Boost Medical Cannabis Access

CONSERVATIVE MPs have blocked efforts to boost UK medical cannabis access with the Government saying the existing legislation is sufficient. With just three prescriptions written under the National Health Service system in the three years, since the law changed, even…

Medical Cannabis Cost-Benefit Analysis Set To Be Launched By UK CIC At A Cost of £30,000

THE initial priorities of the UK Cannabis Industry Council have been identified following a special general meeting attended by around 50 members. The meeting in Arlington St, next to the Ritz Hotel, London, saw members consider part-funding a university-based cost…

Frustrated UK CBD Sector Still Waiting For Clarity With Three-Quarters Of Novel Food Applications Having Now Failed

ATTEMPTS by the UK food quango to regulate the country’s vibrant CBD market continue to flounder leaving many in the industry ‘frustrated’. Six months after it set its initial deadline for Novel Food compliance the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA…

‘Time For The UK To Remove Its Restrictive Regulations Surrounding Hemp Cultivation’

by Jamie Bartley, Executive Chair Cannabis Industry Council (CIC) HEMP is one of the oldest cultivated plants on Earth. Archaeologists working in what is modern day Iran and Iraq, have found remnants of hemp cloth dating back 10,000 years, and…

LYPHE Group Opens Swiss Division With Germany And Poland To Follow By End Of Year

August 3, 2021
Peter McCusker
Medical Marijuana, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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ONE of the UK’s fastest growing and largest cannabis companies has launched its first European operation with more to follow over the coming months. The London-headquartered LYPHE Group operates a number of divisions including the The Medical Cannabis Clinics (TMCC)…

New February Deadline Set For CBD Companies Looking To Secure UK Novel Food Authorisation

Industry Rocked As Leading UK Bank Shuts Its Doors To Cannabis Businesses

Cannabis-Cautious Financial Regulators Delay UK Cultivator’s London Stock Exchange Plans

Cookies Stores To Open On UK And Continental High Streets In Coming Weeks

Sound Familiar, London Mayor Sadiq Khan plans pilot to ‘decriminalise’ minor cannabis offences

New THC Level Guidance Welcomed – But Further Concerns UK CBD Industry Is To Become Isolates Only

Regulator Issues Warning To Non-Complaint CBD Firms As It Prepares to Publish Much-Anticipated Public List

UK Government Fails To Back New Measures To Boost Medical Cannabis Access

Medical Cannabis Cost-Benefit Analysis Set To Be Launched By UK CIC At A Cost of £30,000

Frustrated UK CBD Sector Still Waiting For Clarity With Three-Quarters Of Novel Food Applications Having Now Failed

‘Time For The UK To Remove Its Restrictive Regulations Surrounding Hemp Cultivation’

LYPHE Group Opens Swiss Division With Germany And Poland To Follow By End Of Year

New UK Spin-Out Looks To Europe With Its African-Grown Medical Cannabis Flowers

CBD And Hemp Products Are ‘Over-The-Counter Medicines Or Novel Foods’ – Say Influential UK Trade Group

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