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- Press releases
Akanda Corp Closes $5m Private Placement
Akanda Corp has announced that it has closed a private placement for aggregate gross proceeds of $5,316,000.
- Companies
Akanda to accelerate plans with closing of private placement
The proceeds will accelerate its plans to build an international medical cannabis company.
- Cannabis Daily News
Despite subsidies, Canadian cannabis suffered significant job losses
Canadian cannabis companies qualified for more than CAD $180 million in federal government subsidies designed to retain jobs through the pandemic, but that didn’t save more than 6,000 jobs that have been lost since early 2020, according to a report by MJBizDaily.
- CBD Market
Kanavape Duo Have Their Criminal Convictions Overturned After Seven-Year Legal Battle Which Changed The Way Europe Views CBD
A FRENCH court has today overturned the criminal convictions of the two defendants at the centre of the KanaVape case – seven years after they were first charged.
- Pharmaceutical
Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies Signs New Agreement With Stemtech
OCT believes Stemtech’s technology provides an in vitro translational model that will better predict results in humans.
- Medical
Patients stress cannabis industry needs to be more patient-led
“I think it’s insulting and it’s damaging to the industry.”
- Pharmaceutical
Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies signs drug development programme
The company has signed a new agreement with Oxford-based StemTech.
- Press releases
Akanda’s CanMart Subsidiary To Distribute Award-Winning Cannim Cannabis Products To UK Patients
Akanda Corp has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, CanMart has entered into a distribution agreement with Australia-based Cannim to bring the award-winning Lumir range of medical cannabis products to UK patients.
- CBD Market
With Its Stock In Free Fall CBD Firm Chill Brands Looks To Boost ‘Execution’ And ‘Investor Relations’
CHILL Brands Group, a retailer of CBD products in the US, UK and Europe, has seen some £180m wiped off its market value this year.
- Cultivation
Is there an ROI for LPs M&As?
It’s been a big year for consolidation among the biggest players in Canada’s cannabis industry, but efforts to grow market share and revenues through M&A have not been fruitful so far, reports the Globe and Mail.
- Your #1 Podcast on Cannabis News
How payments are unique in the cannabis sector
On this episode of BofC Live, we connect with Fern Glowinsky, the CEO of Merrco Payments.
- Policy & Regulation
Bill filed in US House to decriminalise cannabis at federal level
A bill to decriminliase cannabis has been filed with the US House of Representatives.
