Luxembourg becoming first EU state to fully legalise cannabis
Officials are drawing up legislation to be unveiled later this year, which will detail the type of cannabis to be supplied and the taxation levels.
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Category: Mark Taylor UK / EU Cannabis Compliance Blog
Guest Post – Europe: How The Novel Food Authorisation Is Affecting the CBD Oil Industry
As you may have already read, It was announced in January 2019 that the European Food Safety Association, EFSA is about to make a decision in order to classify CBD oil and other CBD products as a novel food. This decision was announced at the Novel Food Commission meeting which was held in Brussels in 2016. This led to a final imminent decision very soon and EFSA considered CBD products as Novel Food.
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Article – Faegre Baker Daniels: Key Considerations for U.K. Investment in the Legal Cannabis Industry Abroad
U.K. investors in cannabis-related entities, where the activity is legal in its jurisdiction but not legal in the U.K., risk committing money laundering offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA). However –
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Guest Post: The Legal Status of CBD Oil in Italy
Brian Cusack Managing Director of Dr. Hemp Me, writes, “The issue of legalisation of cannabis and its derived products has been under discussion for decades in Italy. However, with each passing year, the legal status of cannabis and CBD products only gets murkier.”
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France seeks patients for medicinal cannabis trial
France is searching for patients to take part in an official medical cannabis trial, but users will not be smoking the drug. The two-year experiment is being overseen by the French Agency for Drug Safety (ANSM), which drew up a 13-name committee to explore the possibilities of reform in one of Europe’s largest markets in December 2018.
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GW’s Cannabis-Based Epilepsy Drug Set For European Approval
“The cannabidiol-based treatment Epidiolex has won a positive recommendation for marketing approval from a European Medicines Agency (EMA) panel for use as an additional treatment for two types of seizures.” Writes The European Pharmaceutical Review.
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Guest Article: The Legal Status of CBD Oil in Spain
Brian Cusack writes, “The use of cannabis for commercial purposes is illegal in Spain. It is considered a criminal offence. But cannabis can be cultivated and used personally. Any purpose other than the trade or sale of cannabis was decriminalised. This grey area led to the formation of cannabis clubs and user associations. These clubs and associations were formed as non-profit organisations and sold cannabis to its members.”
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UK: The Centre for Medicinal Cannabis (CMC) – Report “CBD in the UK: Towards a responsible, innovative and high-quality cannabidiol industry”
Authored by Blair Gibbs Dr Andrew Yates Jon Liebling and published June 2019, “Pure CBD is legal in the United Kingdom and is not classed as a controlled substance. However the CBD industry is engaged with a product that can
(and often does) touch on what is permissible under the criminal law, as a result of other elements within the same product.”
Italy’s Court of Cassation & Sweden’s Supreme Court Hand Down THC Decisions
Two European courts make THC rulings that preserve the status quo, for the moment anyway.
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Portugal Special Guest Post: João Taborda da Gama, “One Year of Medical Cannabis in Portugal”
July 18 marks the first anniversary of the Portuguese medical cannabis law. Law 33/2018 set the framework for the regulation of the use of cannabis-based medicinal products, preparations and substances that would effectively allow Portuguese patients to access medical cannabis What really has changed during the last year? Very little happened in practice, but a lot changed in the regulatory setting – or, at least, that setting is now much clearer.
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French think tank backs full legalisation of cannabis for billion dollar boon
A group of leading French economists have recommended full legalisation of cannabis.
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Dutch cities reject cannabis regulation plan, continue with ‘backdoor problem’
The Netherlands’ on-off love affair with cannabis has taken another twist as three of its largest cities have backed out of a government experiment to end the legal grey areas that exist around the country’s famous coffeeshops. The weed experiment, or , would allow 10 licensed producers to legally grow and distribute cannabis to Netherlands coffeeshops, which would then sell and serve their customers without fear of sanction.
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Italian court bans cannabis derivatives, in blow to popular sector
Italy’s top court has banned the sale of cannabis products, on the heels of threats by the country’s deputy prime minister to close shops who sell legal derivatives of the plant.
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Bulgaria becomes first EU state to authorise free sale of CBD
Bulgaria has become the first European Union state to officially allow a CBD distribution company to sell openly on the market. Kannaway, a subsidiary of Medical Marijuana Inc, said it has been issued with a Free Sale Certificate to produce hemp-derived CBD products from Bulgaria’s Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, and the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency.
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Anti-cannabis minister threatens to bring down Italian government
“From today, I’ll go to war on cannabis street by street, shop by shop, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, city by city,” Salvini said on Wednesday, May 8.Salvini, who leads the ruling far-right Lega party, said the war on drugs was “a new national emergency”, and has demanded the government close “these places of mass miseducation”.
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Belgium steps up medicinal cannabis plans with new government bureau
The Belgian government has announced plans to launch a dedicated ‘Belgian Cannabisbureau’ to oversee the local production of cannabis.
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Long-awaited German tenders handed to specialist trio
Two Canadian firms, Aphria and Aurora Cannabis and Germany’s Demecan have won out, it has emerged.
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Aurora, Canopy and Spectrum amongst names awaiting Danish licences
Five companies have applied to Denmark’s government for licenses to sell and export medicinal cannabis. The country is a quarter of the way through a four-year medicinal cannabis trial, but some of the usual suspects are not waiting for the outcome to slow down their Danish strategy in what is emerging as a key market.
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EU To Increase Permitted THC Levels In Legal Cannabis Products
The European Union is set to increase the permitted THC levels in legal cannabis products from 0.2 percent to 0.3 percent.Lawmakers in the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development made the decision as part of a set of proposals for post-2020 reforms.
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UK’s First Ever Medicinal Cannabis and Cannabinoids Trade Show to Convene 12th-13th July, ExCeL, London
And our . very own Mark Taylor will be acting as a moderator so do get along. And not only that as a CLR reader you can do this as well. “To register for complimentary passes please visit http://europecbdexpo.co.uk/tickets/ and use code ‘VisitECE’ at the checkout.”
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