Cannabis market and industry news

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  Business5 years ago

  Polish start-up raises €400,000 to secure cannabis seed-to-sale via blockchain

  Polish start-up Trustt has raised €400,000 in pre-seed funding for its ambitious seed-to-sale tracking platform via blockchain, which it believes will...

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  Business5 years ago

  Cookies to open stores in London, Vienna and Portugal

  Cookies, the iconic cannabis brand from California, recently announced that it would be opening stores across Europe, the first being in London and...

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  Business5 years ago

  Italy: Three million euros for the hemp industry

  Italian hemp growers will soon be able to receive up to 300 euros in public aid per hectare. The French Minister of Agriculture has just signed a decree designed to help...

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  Business5 years ago

  Cannabis earns 10 billion in U.S. taxes

  It's a nice little windfall for American public finances. Since 2014, recreational cannabis sales have brought in $10.4 billion in taxes, for...

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  Cannabis news5 years ago

  No cannabis without vaccines, says Quebec

  The Quebec government may announce this Thursday that a vaccination pass will be required for access to cannabis and alcohol stores. This is the information reported by...

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  Cannabis news5 years ago

  1.4 billion worth of cannabis to be sold in Illinois by 2021

  The US state of Illinois, which includes Chicago, more than doubled its sales between 2020 and 2021. In one year, recreational cannabis sales...

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  Business5 years ago

  Legal cannabis sales have begun in Montana

  It was -16°C on January 1 in the state of Montana. Despite the freezing cold in this mountainous region of the northern United States, legal sales of...

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  Business5 years ago

  German cannabis company in talks with Taliban

  Newsweed’s little investigation was spot on. Cpharm, the German version, is indeed the company in talks with the Taliban government in Afghanistan, as we reported...

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  Business5 years ago

  Pfizer gains a foothold in medical cannabis with the acquisition of Arena

  Pfizer is entering the medical cannabis market. By acquiring Arena for $6.7 billion in an all-cash deal, the pharmaceutical giant...

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  Business5 years ago

  Cannabis sales to begin January 1 in Montana

  Cannabis that can't be called cannabis, Native Americans allowed to grow it without a license, and CBD finally authorized: everything is ready for...

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  Business5 years ago

  First cannabis ad seen in the Metaverse

  Kandy Girl claims to be the first ever cannabis company to advertise in the Metaverse. Users of the Decentraland game will be able to walk past...

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  Business5 years ago

  Cookies expands its presence in Europe

  Cookies, the iconic cannabis brand, has announced its expansion into Europe through a partnership with Israeli company InterCure. The two companies have...

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  Business5 years ago

  CBX, the cannabis trading platform, opens up its capital via an STO

  CBX, a Geneva-based company founded by Jonas Duclos and Kevin Goetelen, also co-founders of CBD420, is a platform for buying and selling raw materials and...

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  Business5 years ago

  THC levels in hemp raised to 0.3% in Europe

  The new European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was adopted on Thursday November 2, and with it the increase in the maximum THC content of hemp...

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  Business5 years ago

  UK medical cannabis program could bring in £1.2 billion

  Broad legalization of medical cannabis in the UK could bring in £1.2 billion and create 41,437 new jobs in the sector and around 17...

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  Business5 years ago

  [INTERVIEW] ANSM awards France's first medical cannabis production license

  Biotech start-up Overseed has been awarded one of the first agronomic and genetic cannabis research licenses in France. Interview with Hugues Peribere, its...

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  Business5 years ago

  [Le trois-feuilles] How French cannabis companies see the future

  «We're groping our way forward». This sentence pronounced by Léa Ruellan, founder of the Equilibre CBD brand, could have been said by all the people interviewed for...

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  Business5 years ago

  Malawi asks Mike Tyson to be its cannabis ambassador

  Malawi, which legalized medical cannabis last year, has asked Mike Tyson to become the official ambassador for cannabis cultivation in the...

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  Alcohol5 years ago

  Study: psilocybin may help treat alcohol use disorders

  Psilocybin, the active ingredient in hallucinogenic mushrooms, has already attracted a great deal of interest for its therapeutic potential in a variety of contexts, including helping people...

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  Business5 years ago

  From flower to pharma: How Europe is forging its own identity in medical cannabis

  As Europe embraces medical cannabis, the landscape of medical cannabis prescriptions on the Old Continent has different characteristics to those in the US....