Japan Hemp Seeds Market Projected To Reach $260 Million By 2031
A frequently underrated component of a balanced diet is omega-3 fatty acids. Omega-3 fatty acids are associated with reduced...
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Cannabis Use Is Associated With Lower Obesity Rates
For many years, cannabis consumers were portrayed by mainstream media, film, and cannabis opponents as being out of shape and...
Cannabis Use Consistently Increased In Brazil Over The Past Decade
As the legal cannabis industry continues to spread across the globe and transitions from a patchwork of siloed markets to a more cohesive...
Jersey Is Set To Debate Cannabis Reform
The State Assembly in Jersey, the self-governing British Crown Dependency in the English Channel, is set to debate a path forward for...
Boosting Regulated German Cannabis Should Be A Top 2026 Priority
While there are various goals for Germany’s cannabis policy modernization efforts, the main underlying premise of recent reforms is...
Approved German Cannabis Cultivation Association Total Increases To 368
Adult-use cannabis cultivation associations are a key component of Germany’s recreational cannabis legalization model. Whereas...
CBD Reduces Dementia Symptoms In Clinical Trial
Dementia is a common general term for people who are experiencing a loss of memory, language, problem-solving, or other thinking...
UAE Issues Federal Decree To Regulate Hemp
An increasing number of countries around the globe are modernizing their policies and regulations that govern their domestic industrial...
The Top International Cannabis Stories Of 2025
As 2025 draws to an end, we look back on a year that proved to be significant for cannabis policy and industry in many parts of the...
German SPD Parliamentary Group Argues For Safe Cannabis Access
Yesterday, the Bundestag held its first reading of the proposed amendment to Germany’s medical cannabis law (MedCanG) that has been...
President Trump Orders Cannabis Rescheduling To Be Expedited
In a historic move, United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order today calling for, among other things, expediting the...
U.S. President Trump Is ‘Very Strongly’ Considering Rescheduling Cannabis
News surfaced late last week that United States President Trump held a meeting with members of his administration and the emerging legal...
Project Indlela Proposes Solutions For South Africa’s Cannabis Industry
By many measures, South Africa is poised to become one of the world’s top legal adult-use cannabis markets once sensible policies...
Uruguay Is Considering Legal Cannabis Sales To Non-Residents
Starting in the first half of the 2010s, lawmakers in the Western Hemisphere began to modernize cannabis policies to permit adult-use...
New Zealand Removes License Requirements For Industrial Hemp
If there is one plant that can benefit humanity ‘the most’, it is likely the hemp plant. The hemp plant is demonstrably one...
German Self-Payer Medical Cannabis Sector Worth €2.9 Billion Annually
One of the most striking differences between medical cannabis policies in Germany compared to state-level medical cannabis programs in...
Reduction Of German Cannabis Patient Sick Days Saves Billions Of Euros
When medical cannabis policy is driven by the political whims of cannabis opponents rather than science and medical professionals, it is...
Older Populations Benefit From Medical Cannabis
Older generations were unfortunate victims of a significant amount of cannabis prohibition propaganda. It is no coincidence that in...
Hemplime Holds Great Potential For Regenerative Construction
Hemplime, also commonly referred to as hempcrete, is a sustainable building material made by combining the inner shives of the hemp plant...
Most Medical Cannabis Use In The Netherlands Involves No Prescription
The results of tens of thousands of peer-reviewed studies and countless personal patient testimonies all demonstrate that cannabis is an...
What Has Luxembourg Learned Two Years After Legalization?
For several years, Luxembourg looked poised to become the first European country to adopt a national adult-use cannabis legalization...
German Districts Object To Cannabis Pilot Denials
Regional adult-use cannabis commerce pilot trials are an interesting public policy concept. They involve permitting cannabis consumers,...
Honoring A German Cannabis Community Legend
It is with heavy hearts that the International Cannabis Business Conference team reports that legendary German cannabis attorney Peter...
Sydney University Symposium Discusses Global Cannabis Prohibition
Cannabis prohibition is a failed public policy wherever it exists and in any form that it exists. Countless people have been harmed by...
Lawmakers Support Legal Cannabis Sales In Finland
Cannabis law and industry regulatory modernization efforts are picking up momentum in Europe, with a recent example surfacing in...
Canada Has Generated Billions In Cannabis Taxes Since 2018
Canada has been home to a thriving cannabis community for many years. Having grown up in the Pacific Northwest in the United States, I...
Austria’s Hemp Flower Industry Is On The Clock
The rise in popularity of hemp flower has been significant in recent years, particularly in Europe, where sales of ‘cannabis...
Cannabis Research Gets A Boost In Brazil
By many measures, we currently live in the ‘golden age’ for cannabis research, with more cannabis research being conducted...
German Cannabis Association Publishes Policy Demands
The German Cannabis Association (DHV) recently hosted the Cannabis Normal! Conference (CaNoKo) in partnership with LEAP Germany e.V. On...
Australian Survey: 64% Support Medicinal Cannabis As Mainstream Healthcare
Humans have been making use of the cannabis plant for medical purposes for many centuries. Consumption for medical purposes goes back at...
Israel’s Medical Cannabis Patient Total Declines
Israel has served as a top jurisdiction for medical cannabis policy, industry, and research for many years. Cannabis for medical use by...
Survey Highlights Motivations Behind German Cannabis Use
Germany is home to a thriving adult-use and medical cannabis community, which has been true for several years. By many measures, the...
Study Identifies Regulatory Challenges Facing German Cultivation Associations
Adult-use cannabis cultivation associations are a key component of Germany’s recreational cannabis legalization model. Cultivation...
Europe’s Cannabis Market Finds Its Financial Footing
By Jamie L Pearson, Founder of New Holland Group
As the continent’s cannabis sector matures, investors and operators are discovering that...
Will U.S. Hemp Companies Pivot To Europe?
In recent years, the consumable hemp industry in the United States has surged. The U.S. hemp revolution began after the passage of the...
Cannabis Provides Improvements In Patients With Chronic Back Pain
If you have ever experienced lower back pain, then you know firsthand how frustrating it can be. Lower back pain is often described as...
Cannabis Vaporizer Market Projected To Reach $17.11 Billion By 2032
Cannabis use is far from being a new thing, with humans having consumed cannabis for many centuries. What is relatively new is how humans...
Approved German Cannabis Cultivation Association Total Increases To 357
One of the key components of Germany’s adult-use cannabis legalization model is permitting cultivation associations to operate....
CaNoKo 2025 Is Coming To Berlin From November 21st To 23rd
Many European countries are working to modernize their cannabis policies and industry regulations, with Germany serving as the most...
Germany Imported Nearly 57 Tonnes Of Cannabis In Q3 2025
Germany’s Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) recently published new medical cannabis import data for the third...
Burkhard Blienert Joins German Association Of Pharmaceutical Cannabinoid Companies
Burkhard Blienert, Germany’s former Federal Government Commissioner for Addiction and Drug Issues and a previous keynote speaker at...
German Medical Cannabis Petition Crosses 58K Signatures
Over 58,000 people have signed a Bundestag petition in Germany, calling on the nation’s Federal Ministry of Health to withdraw its...
Australia Publishes Industrial Hemp Variety Trials Report
The global industrial hemp industry has experienced tremendous growth in recent decades after many years of hemp prohibition policies...
Cannabis Promotes Improvements In Chemotherapy Patients
Cancer is one of the saddest and most painful things that a patient and their loved ones will ever have to battle. I have personally lost...
Less Young People Are Consuming Cannabis After Canadian Legalization
Lawmakers in Canada approved national adult-use cannabis legalization in 2018, making it the second country to approve the public policy...
Swiss City Welcomes Adult-Use Cannabis Legalization Plan
Earlier this year, the Swiss Commission for Social Security and Health launched a public consultation for an adult-use cannabis...
New UK Report Highlights Untapped Cannabis Industry Potential
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Medical Cannabis under Prescription recently published a new report focusing on the United...
Legal Medical Cannabis Sales Are Increasing In Czechia
Medical cannabis was first legalized in the Czech Republic in 2013, with the first patients receiving safe access to medical cannabis in...
UK Insomnia Patients Report Improvements Following Cannabis Use
Sleep quality is extremely important for a person’s overall physical and mental health. When a person doesn’t get enough...
Colombia Approves Use Of Medical Cannabis Flower
In an ever-evolving global medical cannabis industry landscape in which new products are being developed and introduced into the market...