Legalization presents Canadian universities and colleges with new challenges. Can they cope?

A new initiative petition seeking to reform Idaho’s stringent marijuana laws has hit the streets.

Uruguay hopes to serve as a model for its neighbors and minimize unintended consequences of the effort.

In Spain, a group of drugs experts have established the GEPCA, a body which seeks to set up a comprehensive regulation for cannabis. 

An organic gardening company in Switzerland has managed to make high-CBD cannabis flower available to consumers by capping the THC content and registering the product with regulators as a tobacco substitute.

Cannabis is certainly becoming more mainstream, but the divide between the enthusiasts and those who don’t understand it makes the Grand Canyon look like a crack in the sidewalk.

420 Intel is pleased to roll out an interactive map of marijuana industry news from all over the world. 

Speaking on JOE's business show Dr James Linden of Greenlight Medicines, said Ireland has the perfect climate to grow cannabis and he believes the country has the potential to become the next cannabis growing capital of the world.

Ireland moved closer to legalising marijuana for medicinal use when the minority government said on Thursday it would not block the first reading of a bill that is backed by all other parties.

Minister makes promise to mother of child with a catastrophic form of epilepsy.

One of the most interesting, relevant and perhaps shocking places to study cannabis is Italy. 

I can recall a time when it was a rarity to hear or read about a news story about cannabis.

Because Israel has been providing medical marijuana products to Israeli patients for over a decade, its researchers have accumulated vast clinical experience along with substantial knowledge in developing strains, breeding methods and extraction, as well as maintaining quality control.

Israel's Health Ministry recently released new directives easing restrictions on the possession and use of medical marijuana by authorized users. 

Earlier this year, the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture officially classified the growing of medical cannabis as a ‘farming sector’, paving the way for marijuana growers to receive government aid, grants, training and water quotas, just like any other eligible farmer.

Israel, a leader in marijuana research and health technology, is attracting international investment as it tries to position itself as a cutting-edge exporter in the rapidly-growing market for medical-grade cannabis.

Israeli legislation to allow exports of qualified medical cannabis has passed preliminary reading in parliament and is expected to be completed next year.

'The law is far from perfect, but it's a foot in the door on the way to full legalisation'.

Israel’s Together has agreed to sell 5 tonnes of cannabis oil to an unnamed Canadian company that will potentially bring revenue of hundreds of millions of shekels.

Researchers here in the U.S. are eager to run trials with high quality Israeli cannabis strains they cannot get anywhere else.

As proposed legislation to decriminalize recreational marijuana use awaits approval from the attorney-general, the Agriculture Ministry recently announced it is classifying medical-grade-cannabis growing as an official farming sector.

The Israeli company Panaxia already launched a production facility in Bernalillo, now it will offer smokeless proprietary cannabinoids in New Mexico.

 

An Israeli company on Sunday announced a $110 million deal to grow and produce medical cannabis for a European buyer in what it said was the biggest agreement of its kind to be signed in Israel to date.

Medical marijuana is about to become a whole lot more accessible in Israel with pharmacies across the country expected to soon start providing the substance.

An Israeli study currently underway is finding that medical cannabis can be used to treat the symptoms of autism in children and adults.

Four-year effort could become a permanent fixture in the future.

A law for the promotion of the cannabis chain has been approved by the Italian Senate.

A special task force to inform the Tourism Ministry on using cannabis tourism for the promotion of the sector, is to be established.

The international market for marijuana is booming. It’s set to reach $50 billion within a decade. And after spending millions to crack down on the drug, Jamaica’s government has decided it wants to cash in.

Jamaica, the birthplace of landrace strains like Lamb’s Bread and icons like Bob Marley, has long been a capital of cannabis culture, but only in recent years did the country loosen its laws on the plant. 

Jamaica's medical marijuana (ganja) industry is finally poised to take root following the granting of two licences: to Epican Medicinals to legally cultivate the herb and Everyting Oily Labs Limited to process the raw material supplied by Epican into oil.

 

Khiron Life Sciences Corp. reports that its wholly owned subsidiary, Khiron Colombia SAS, has been granted the first licence ever issued by the Ministry of Justice for the cultivation of medical cannabis in Colombia.

Marking another milestone on the road to ending cannabis prohibition in the Netherlands, a sizeable majority of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s VVD party have voted to support what they’re calling “smart regulation” of cannabis.

Canada's legal marijuana market is seeing green in more ways than one.

The Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture has made a statement that Bulgarian farmers will be able to legally grow industrial grade cannabis, after filing the proper papers towards the Ministry. 

Pawel Bartoszek, a member of Parliament for Viðreisn (The Reform Party) has proposed a bill for the legalization of cannabis. 

For 21 years, The Madrid Global Marihuana March has been filling the streets of the city with pleasant smoke and more tangible and urgent demands.

While highly regulated, the amount of medicinal cannabis sold by German pharmacies has almost doubled in just one year. 

After a backroom meeting between political party leaders, a slim majority of Dutch Parliament has aligned behind a proposal to regulate the flow of cannabis that feeds the country’s coffeeshops. If enacted, the new system would bring the Netherlands closer to the legal, adult-use markets emerging across North America.

In rap and reggae tunes, the procession, composed of many young people but also of sick people, militant for the use of cannabis for therapeutic purposes, departed shortly after 15 hours from Place de la Bastille to Place de la Bastille. Republic, behind a banner proclaiming: “Worldwide marijuana cannabis decriminalization self-production cannabis therapeutic. Another drug policy is possible “. 

Could the United Kingdom see marijuana legalization? The UK Parliament debates this week. 

Several creams and oils made using cannabidiol (CBD) are being publicized at the America Expoweed 2017 cannabis fair in Mexico City, at the same time that the Mexican government – for the first time – is providing treatment using cannabis-based products to 11 patients with serious illnesses such as epilepsy and cancer.

A brand new class of epilepsy medicines primarily based on an ingredient derived from marijuana might be accessible as quickly as within the second half of 2018 within the United States pending Food and Drug Administration approval.

With a potential value of more than $40 billion, Europe’s medical marijuana market could become the world’s largest in the next five years.

Medical marijuana significantly improved the condition of children suffering from cerebral palsy, a study by Wolfson Medical Center near Tel Aviv has found. 

Medicinal marijuana has been prescribed on the National Health Service to an 11-year-old boy in what is believed to be the first case of its kind.

Polish pharmacies will be able to sell cannabis after legislation regulating medical marijuana came into force on Wednesday.