In April 2025, the Italian government used emergency constitutional powers to bypass parliament and reclassify non-intoxicating hemp as a narcotic, regardless of THC content, following multiple failed attempts to decimate the industry.
The Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products (HMPC) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) published a draft opinion on July 09, open for consultation between 1 August and 31 October 2025, which concludes that no EU monograph can currently be created for Cannabis sativa L., flos.
The European Commission (EC) is considering a major overhaul of regulations surrounding hemp across the Union, potentially marking a step change in how hemp is recognised, traded, and funded.
CBD (cannabidiol) as a ‘cosmetic’ could soon be banned in the European Union amid efforts from France to classify it as a reprotoxic substance.
Italy’s hemp industry has called on the European Commission (EC) to intervene after the government moved to ban the cultivation, production and marketing of hemp.
FRANCE is set to become the latest European country to ban the increasingly prevalent semi-synthetic cannabinoid and ‘legal high’ hexahydrocannabinol, better known as HHC.
In October, the cannabis industry reconvened in Las Vegas for the annual tradeshow – MJ Biz Con – put on by Marijuana Business Daily.
MOVES are underway in Brussels to the restrict the sale of CBD across Europe with questions being raised over its designation as a food supplement.
