Author: Hazel Norman

Israel Announces 165% Tariffs On Canadian Cannabis

Written by Hazel Norman on April 14, 2025. Posted in Business, Policy.

Israel is an international leader in medical cannabis in many ways, having allowed legal medical cannabis activity by patients going back to the 1990s. It is also considered the birthplace of modern...

Chile Is Considering Legalizing Adult-Use Cannabis

Written by Hazel Norman on April 12, 2025. Posted in Policy.

Currently, cannabis is legal for adult use at a national level in Uruguay, Canada, Malta, Luxembourg, Germany, and South Africa. Additionally, two dozen states in the U.S. have adopted recreational...

Brazil Supreme Court Issues Major Cannabis Decision

Written by Hazel Norman on April 7, 2025. Posted in Policy.

A New Phase For Cannabis Pilot Trials In The Netherlands

Written by Hazel Norman on April 7, 2025. Posted in Policy.

Retail adult-use cannabis outlets participating in pilot trial research projects in the Netherlands entered into a new era today, with sales of recreational pilot trial cannabis flower products being...

Poll Finds Little Support For Reversing German Legalization

Written by Hazel Norman on April 2, 2025. Posted in Policy.

After a year of cannabis legalization being the law of the land in Germany, a new YouGov poll has found that a minority of the nation’s citizens want to reverse adult-use cannabis legalization....

All Doctors In Czechia Can Now Prescribe Medicinal Cannabis

Written by Hazel Norman on April 1, 2025. Posted in Policy.

Starting today, all licensed doctors in the Czech Republic can now prescribe medical cannabis therapies to suffering patients. Previously, only specialist doctors could prescribe medical cannabis. “All...

Moldova Issues First Authorization For Hemp Production

Written by Hazel Norman on March 24, 2025. Posted in Business, Policy.

Hemp policy and regulatory modernization is sweeping across the globe, with a recent example being in the European nation of Moldova where the government has issued its first authorization for legal...

Australian Government Report Recommends Cannabis Reform

Written by Hazel Norman on March 24, 2025. Posted in Policy.

A government committee in Victoria, Australia is recommending that personal cannabis cultivation and possession be decriminalized in the jurisdiction. The recommendation is similar to the public policy...

Action Gets Delayed On Italy’s Restrictive Hemp Laws

Written by Hazel Norman on March 23, 2025. Posted in Business, Policy.

For centuries the hemp plant and its varied uses were fairly limited to textiles. While the practice of incorporating hemp into medicinal applications is thousands of years old, it wasn’t as widespread...