Day: October 11, 2018

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Specially trained doctors will be able to legally issue prescriptions for cannabis-based medicines for the first time in the United Kingdom starting Nov. 1, marking an important milestone for the medical marijuana industry in the country. The law introduced in the U.K. Parliament today will ultimately pave the way forContinue Reading

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Social media giant Facebook will stop blocking marijuana-related searches, including those for legitimate businesses with the word “cannabis” or “marijuana” in the name, MarketWatch reported. The move, which ends a monthslong block on cannabis and related search results, is expected to help marijuana businesses engage with consumers via social media. Facebook’sContinue Reading

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Canada’s securities watchdog is warning the country’s publicly traded marijuana companies to improve their disclosure practices – including any risks tied to their executives and employees crossing into the United States – or face additional regulatory action. The warning came in a detailed notice published Oct. 10 by the CanadianContinue Reading

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Nasdaq. Under the deal, Denver-based MJ Freeway and MTech (Nasdaq: MTEC) will become subsidiaries of a newly created company temporally dubbed Pubco. That name that will change before the firm is listed, company officials said. MJ Freeway and MTech Acquisition plan merger, Nasdaq listing is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial,Continue Reading

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The world’s largest retailer, Walmart, is considering selling CBD products in Canada, a development that comes just days before the country’s recreational marijuana markets open. But Walmart says it isn’t ready to start selling cannabidiol just yet. “As we would for any new industry, Walmart Canada has done some preliminaryContinue Reading

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Canadian marijuana cultivator Flower One Holdings agreed to purchase a Nevada cannabis cultivation business for $27 million, expanding the Toronto-based company’s footprint in the Silver State’s rapidly growing MJ industry. With the purchase of 100% of Las Vegas-based NLV Organics, Flower One (Canadian Securities Exchange: FONE) gains a 25,000-square-foot cultivation and productionContinue Reading

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From 15-17 October, the annual World Hemp Congress is taking place again in Ljubljana, Slovenia. We will be traveling down with a team to report from this unique event, organised at the House of the European Union Information Center of the European Parliament and European Commission Slovenia. Several European countriesContinue Reading