A bill presented to the Council of Ministers and debated in the Mauritian Parliament proposes to decriminalize the personal use of drugs in Mauritius, in addition to introducing...
London-based Eden Pharma Limited announced on Friday the acquisition of 5,000 acres (around 2,000 hectares) in Uganda through a joint venture, which will be...
The Moroccan Agency for the Regulation of Cannabis-Related Activities (ANRAC) has announced that it has issued 10 permits for cannabis-related activities, in accordance with the provisions previously...
South Africa's Supreme Court has agreed that there is no great difference between a dealer and a Cannabis Club. The High Court declares...
As regular Newsweed consumers will have noticed, we've been on hiatus for the past 2 weeks. But since there's no news to wait for us, here's a...
Zimbabwe now authorizes the sale of cannabidiol (CBD)-based medicines to supplement treatments administered to patients. The country's drug regulatory authority has...
Two years after officially legalizing medical cannabis, Uganda has exported its first grams of medical cannabis to the UK. Via the German company Cantourage and its...
The President of Zimbabwe has inaugurated a €25 million medical cannabis cultivation and processing site. Business Insider reports that...
South Africa’s first dispensary opened its doors after receiving its license in late 2021. THC Pharmacy, registered with the South African Council for...
The Zimbabwean tobacco industry is looking to cannabis as a major source of revenue, anticipating a sharp worldwide drop in tobacco consumption that will curb one of the world's most...
Four months after receiving the report of the Technical Committee on Cannabis for Medical Use, the Mauritian government has given the go-ahead for...
The Rwandan government will soon open a large 134-hectare medical cannabis production facility. The news, reported by the Rwandan daily The New Times, comes...
Commander Solochi, the general in charge of the Zambian army's National Service, said in late February that his forces would acquire land in several provinces...
The Moroccan Government Council, meeting last Thursday, issued a decree clarifying certain provisions of law no. 13.21 on the legal use of cannabis in Morocco.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa wants to speed up the regulation of the cannabis industry in South Africa. In his State of the Union address, the president...
The High Court of Botswana has upheld the exclusive rights of Fresh Standard to produce industrial hemp and medical cannabis in the country....
Since the reclassification of cannabis by the UN, and the recognition of its medical properties, Mauritius intends to legalize all or part of its medical cannabis. But what if...
The Cannabis Variety Hunters are back! Led by the «Cannabis King» Arjan Roskam, these Amsterdam-based cannabis enthusiasts...
Malawi, which legalized medical cannabis last year, has asked Mike Tyson to become the official ambassador for cannabis cultivation in the...
Four partnership agreements were signed on Friday evening in Tangier, on the sidelines of the 1st International Conference on the Therapeutic and Industrial Potential of Hemp...
