Letter from A Spanish Jail: The Albert Tió Interview
The father of three minor children has been forced to report to jail every night for his role in organizing the Spanish cannabis club movement and pressing for further reform. This is his interview, as he learned that his monumental cannabis human rights case was just lost at Strasbourg.
The Spreading Idea of Cannabis Access as a Constitutional Right
The trend on reform, globally, is beginning to pick up pointers from successful legal challenges in places like Canada and Mexico as well as Europe– namely that access to cannabis is literally a constitutional right.
Cannabis in Greece: The Nevada of Europe?
New legislation is moving through Parliament that would make it easier to invest in the Greek industry and normalizes the market for patients.
The Great German “Generic Dronabinol” Scam
German companies are hawking dronabinol as the generic “cannabis drug” in the domestic pharmaceutical market. Instead, the markups they are building into the supply chain are name brand prices. This is problematic – here is why.
Poland Pushes On: Cannabis Reform Is A Game of Inches
The country just to the east of Germany is moving forward on cannabis reform, but everything is still a massive struggle.
Prescribing Cannabis: A German Doctor At The Forefront of The Medical Revolution
Few people know Dr. Franjo Grotenhermen outside of the German cannabis industry, but he is a leading voice in the discussion about cannabis acceptance in Europe.
Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls: The New Spanish Civil War Over Cannabis
Spain is on the cutting edge of not only domestic reform, but much wider European change right now... and in a fundamental way.
Cannabis Rx: A Look into A Pioneering German Pharmacy
Lux99, near Cologne is an innovative German cannabis apotheke—one of the earliest cannabis speciality pharmacies in the country. Meet the founder.
The Great GMP Debate–What Actually Counts as Certified Medical Cannabis Around the World
There are many models now afoot in different regions of the world to create a regulated cannabis infrastructure that works—but there are large gaps and differences depending on where you are.
Mr. Cannabis aka Peter Homberg: A German Lawyer’s Perspective on The Industry
Peter Homberg is not the only cannabis lawyer in Europe, but he is one of the most influential.
Malta Is on The Verge of Allowing Home Grown Cannabis
The arrest of a couple in a hotel room on Valentine’s Day on drug trafficking charges seems to be the final impetus the island nation needed to take the recreational step.
Kanabo Knocks It Out of The Park With London IPO
The Israeli medical vape manufacturer packed a punch as it debuted on the London Stock Exchange, setting it up for European expansion. What does this mean for other firms?
On the Defining Edge of a New Market: The New German Cannabis Distributors
As medical cannabis distribution moves into its next phase in Germany, a new breed of specialty pharmaceutical grade distributors have begun to dot the landscape. They don’t resemble anything like their U.S. and Canadian counterparts. This is a look at three of them.
Mirror, Mirror On The Wall – Which Is The Best CBD Cosmetic Regulation Of Them All?
European regulators warm up to natural CBD in cosmetics as large regulatory changes begin to occur and take hold in the vertical if not beyond it.
The London Stock Exchange Opens For Business With The Cannabis Industry
The Brexited City of London is now allowing cannabis firms to trade on the exchange – what will be the impact in the UK if not the EU beyond that?
Parlez-vous Cannabis Médical? The French Begin National Medical Cannabis Trial
The French, at long last, have decided to move forward on validating cannabis as medicine – and they are doing it differently than anyone else in Europe so far.
Frankfurt Begins A Training Program For Cannabis Doctors
The German city is piloting a new, national training program for cannabis doctors in the hopes that more patients will get access to the drug via legal means.
The Dutch Fumble First National Recreational Cannabis Cultivation Tender
The first attempt to federally regulate the cultivation of recreational cannabis in Holland goes down in flames over lack of coordination and faults at the federal level, along with local NIMBYism.
Removing Fascism from The German Cannabis Discussion
88 years after the Nazis came to power, the last vestiges of their influence are being rooted out of German culture, language, laws, and science. Cannabinoids are on the leading edge of that.
The Great Dutch Cannabis Experiment Morphs On
Cannabis reform is an evolving discussion in the land of the Coffee Shop, and the domestic industry is clearly pivoting for a new decade.
