Opinion
Read expert opinions and analysis on policy, markets, and culture in the cannabis industry.
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CIC Research Group Looking To Overcome The ‘Scandalous’ Impasse On UK Medical Cannabis Prescribing
Chartered Psychologist and Head of Research at Drug Science, Dr Anne Katrin Schlag, heads up the newly formed Cannabis Industry Council’s (CIC) Research group.
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Five ways science can help your cannabis business
In this article, Christopher Tasker, CEO of Global Cannabinoid Solutions, discusses how science can help your cannabis business.
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Does the UK have a wealthy future in cannabis?
President of CLEAR UK, Peter Reynolds, discusses CBD, medical and recreational cannabis in the UK.
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How Blockchain and Molecular Tagging Can Support The Growth Of The Medical Cannabis Industry
Jason Warnock, Chief Revenue Officer of Flora Growth and Robert Galarza, CEO of TruTrace on why they are leading the way in adopting, and developing, best-in-class technologies OVER the last few years, we have seen a proliferation of jurisdictions around the world beginning to legalize and adopt cannabis as a medical treatment.
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What happened at Hall of Flowers Santa Rosa 2021?
By Krista Raymer and Leandra Reid, Vetrina Group Fun. Business and fun.
- CBD Market
New CIC Standards Group Looks To Tackle the ‘Uncertainty, Misconceptions, And Taboos’ Of A Century Of Prohibition
IN July this year Elisabetta Faenza was appointed chair of the recently-formed UK Cannabis Industry Council’s (CIC) Standards Group, whose 39 members drawn from CBD, hemp and medicinal cannabis companies, the legal profession and researchers, have been tasked with creating a level playing field for the country’s legal hemp and cannabis industry based on clear…
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Why Precision-Fermented Cannabinoids Should Be The Chosen Path For The European Cannabis Industry
Precision-fermented cannabinoids are likely to disrupt Europe’s emerging medicinal and recreational cannabis-farming industry over the next few years – and that’s a very good thing, says Jim Plamondon.
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The Policy Pathway For A Post-Election German Recreational Cannabis Market Outlined In A New Report
By German Cannabis Lawyer Kai-Friedrich Niermann and Burkhard Blienert, Political Advisor, former German MP and former drug policy spokesman of the SPD Bundestag’s group.
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Jamaican Company Apollon Formularies On Why it Chose London Over North America
Stene Jacobs, COO of Apollon Formularies Plc, elaborates on the potential of the European cannabis industry AFTER two decades of cannabis reform and legal liberalisation across the Europe – especially in the medical sector – what does the modern European landscape look like?
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‘Time For The UK To Remove Its Restrictive Regulations Surrounding Hemp Cultivation’
Jamie Bartley is CEO of Unyte Capital, Executive Chair of the recently-launched Cannabis Industry Council (CIC) and Chair of its Hemp sub-group.
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‘The World Needs A Cannabis Initiative That Serves Citizens. Not One That Serves A Decadent International Bureaucracy’
By European cannabis researcher and thought-leader Kenzi Riboulet-Zemouli THERE is much concern over the International Narcotics Control Board’s Cannabis Control Initiative, as reported by BusinessCann earlier this week.
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Tokyo 2020: How Cannabis Has Changed The Games
By Barbara Pastori IT’S been a long road, but the Olympic torch finally landed in Japan on July 23.












