Since 2015, two cannabinoids, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), have been authorized for medical use by the regulations of ANVISA, the Brazilian regulatory agency...
Costa Rica's Frente Amplio party has presented its bill to legalize the cultivation of cannabis for personal use. This proposal departs from...
Colombia-based medical cannabis producer Clever Leaves has announced its partnership with seed bank Paradise Seeds to develop and register cultivars...
Cannabis in Latin America is changing, with emerging brands such as En Volá in Chile and WePlant in Argentina embracing the techniques...
Argentina's cannabis regulatory agency, ARICCAME, recently granted the first six licenses for the production and marketing of medical cannabis. This decision marks the...
Gustavo Petro's Colombian government has abolished fines for possession of small quantities of drugs to allow the police to concentrate on...
Costa Rican left-wing political party Frente Amplio has announced a new bill to authorize the self-cultivation of cannabis. The proposal, championed by...
The Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Drugs reached a common agreement last Friday that the war on drugs is...
Clever Leaves announced on August 29 that it had received the international declaration of carbon neutrality from the 100% Carbon Neutral program. As a result, the company generates only 16...
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...
A month after cannabis legalization stalled in the Senate during the final stage of an eight-stage legislative process, lawmakers...
Uruguay, the first country in the world to legalize cannabis for adults in 2013, opened cannabis sales four years later,...
The government of Brazilian President Lula has pledged to regulate the cultivation of cannabis for medical purposes, in particular to replace cannabis imports. Currently,...
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and the new Threads social network, has updated its cannabis advertising policy to...
Colombia's cannabis legalization project has stalled for the year, the Colombian Senate having failed to push it forward with sufficient...
After the CBG-producing plant in South Africa and the THC-producing moss, scientists have found a shrub in South America that produces...
Chilean deputies Marcela Riquelme and Ana María Gazmuri met with the National Prosecutor, Ángel Valencia, and the director of the unit specializing in the fight against...
The bill to legalize cannabis in Colombia was approved in the penultimate vote in the Senate on Tuesday, bringing the country...
Chilean President Gabriel Boric has signed into law a new anti-narcotics trafficking bill aimed at preventing money laundering, promoting...
The plan to legalize cannabis in Colombia has officially been adopted by the country's House of Representatives and must now be submitted to the Senate...
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