Written by Ben Stevens and Sarah Sinclair. You can read Part 1 here. Growing demand for medical cannabis across Europe Medical cannabis demand across Europe has seen substantial growth, particularly following the regulatory changes in Germany. Ukraine’s Health Minister, Viktor Liashko, visited Germany this year as [...]
Written by Ben Stevens and Sarah Sinclair. 2024 has been a dramatic year for the global cannabis industry, seeing both historic steps forward and concerning regressions in both attitudes and policy. It was a year dominated by elections, with around half of the world’s population [...]
In a new study researchers explored whether CBD can reduce scan-related anxiety in patients with advanced breast cancer. The findings showed that while CBD did not significantly change scan-related anxiety when compared to a placebo, it was safe and resulted in significantly lower overall anxiety levels [...]
Via Business of Cannabis French patient associations have warned that medical cannabis patients could soon face a disruption in treatment as its long-running experiment comes to an end with no next steps in place. The French Society for the Study and Treatment of Pain (SFETD) issued [...]
Data from a federally funded survey has found that cannabis use amongst teens in the USA is at its lowest since the first states began to legalise adult access to the drug in 2012. The annual Monitoring the Future (MTF) Survey, which is supported by the [...]
From April 2025, Dutch coffee shops will only be permitted to sell regulated cannabis products, as the next phase of the country’s adult-use pilot gets underway. One year on from the launch of the Netherlands’ Closed Coffee Shop Chain Experiment, regulators have set a fixed date [...]
A survey by Health Canada, the government body responsible for regulating the Canadian cannabis market, has shown that the number of people buying cannabis from illegal sources has dropped to just 3%. The annual Canadian Cannabis Survey aims to give researchers important information about the way [...]
Jazz Pharmaceuticals has shared new data to support the efficacy of Epidiolex in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). Research shared at the American Epilepsy Society (AES) 2024 Annual Meeting held from 6-10 December in Los Angeles, California supports the use of Epidiolex in the treatment [...]
The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has called for world leaders to treat drug use as a health issue after declaring that the “war on drugs has failed, completely and utterly”. Türk made the statement at the Dealing with Drugs II [...]
MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) has secured FDA clearance to conduct a clinical trial examining the use of smoked cannabis for the treatment of PTSD symptoms among veterans. After three years of negotiation, the FDA has given MAPS the green light to carry out a [...]
Via Business of Cannabis In a long-awaited and major step forward for the UK’s CBD sector, the regulator has announced a new roadmap that could see the first products given official approval by Spring next year. While this announcement comes nearly seven years after the novel [...]
Teens who believe their parents use cannabis are more likely to hold favourable attitudes toward the drug and to consider trying it themselves, according to new research. The study, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Child and Family Studies, also showed that the closeness of the [...]
Thousands more doctors in the Czech Republic will soon be permitted to prescribe medical cannabis under a new decree published by the Ministry of Health. From April 2025, the country’s 5,000 general practitioners will be permitted to prescribe medical cannabis to patients with chronic pain, following [...]
A poll carried out for a UK-based think-tank has found that 66% of police officers believe that the use of cannabis is either ignored or dealt with so lightly that it is in effect ‘decriminalised’. The anti-drug, Tory-linked think tank The Centre for Social Justice commissioned [...]
Via Business of Cannabis UK-based biotech firm Ananda Developments has solidified its position as a driving force in clinical cannabis research in Europe, announcing the launch of two more major trials using its proprietary compounds. Last month, Business of Cannabis reported that two long-awaited NHS clinical trials to [...]
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