On January 28, the collegiate council of Anvisa, the country's national health monitoring agency, approved a series of regulatory changes that extend access to...
Brazil's agricultural research agency, Embrapa, has received authorization from the Anvisa health agency to conduct research on Cannabis. The agency hopes to create its first-ever cannabis bank...
Almost a year after Brazil's Superior Court of Justice (STJ) ordered the government to regulate the cultivation of cannabis for medicinal purposes, the...
Brazilian researchers have unveiled a new portable sensor designed to detect synthetic cannabinoids in vaping fluids and biological samples (e.g....
In a decision handed down on February 14, 2025, Brazil's Federal Supreme Court (STF) unanimously decriminalized the possession of cannabis for personal use...
The number of people benefiting from cannabis-based treatment rose sharply in Brazil in 2024, with more than 672,000 patients, an...
Brazil's Superior Court of Justice (STJ) has approved the planting, cultivation, processing and sale of hemp for medicinal purposes in...
Brazil's Supreme Court has taken an important step towards decriminalizing the possession of cannabis for personal use, placing the country on the...
Since 2015, two cannabinoids, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), have been authorized for medical use by the regulations of ANVISA, the Brazilian regulatory agency...
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...
The government of Brazilian President Lula has pledged to regulate the cultivation of cannabis for medical purposes, in particular to replace cannabis imports. Currently,...
After the CBG-producing plant in South Africa and the THC-producing moss, scientists have found a shrub in South America that produces...
According to information reported by Reuters, Brazil's Superior Court of Justice (STJ), which acts as the supreme court of appeal for non-constitutional cases,...
With Europe's CBD sector booming, despite a regulatory quagmire, hundreds of industry players on both sides of the Atlantic are facing the challenge of...
Innovation driving access to medical cannabis? In Brazil, the first subscription service focusing on cannabis-based therapies has just been launched....
On Tuesday, Brazil's Superior Court of Justice authorized three patients to cultivate cannabis for medical purposes, a decision that should be applied...
On Tuesday, a committee of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies approved a plan to legalize the cultivation of cannabis for medicinal purposes and...
While Brazil legalized medical cannabis at the end of 2019, Brazilian patients still depend on imports for their treatments. A bill introduced...
Rio de Janeiro has decided to authorize medical cannabis cultivation and research by patient associations. To date, only 78 judicial authorizations have been issued to allow...
While Brazil last week rejected the possibility of growing cannabis for medical purposes, the federal court in Brasilia has in the meantime...
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