Renowned drug activist Joep Oomen dies at 54
On Friday the 18th of March 2016 the renowned drug activist Joep Oomen unexpectedly passed away in his house in Antwerp. The cannabis community lost an icon who will be sorely missed.
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Representatives of 14 countries will gather to talk about CBD
Do you want to know everything about the latest status of CBD? In Poland, this is discussed in the HempToday center. What are the regulations in the EU? How do the individual countries deal with advice from the EU to classify CBD as a novel food? And what about the US or UK and even […]
Road Trip In Lesotho: Africa’s First Country to Legalise Cannabis Cultivation
Fields Of Green for All, a Johannesburg legalisation non-profit, took a road trip down into Lesotho for Cannabis News Network for the real story behind ‘Africa’s First Country to Grant Medical Marijuana Licenses’. Lesotho has the record of being the only country in the world with an average height over 1000 meters and is a […]
Six candidates nominated for the innovation award “Hemp Product of the Year 2019”
Cannabis News Network will be at the 16th EIHA hemp conference, will we see you there? Register here and get your tickets For the second time, the innovation award “Hemp Product of the Year” will be granted to the young, innovative hemp industry for finding suitable applications and markets for industrial hemp-based products. Focus of […]
Slachtoffers van de Hollandse Hennepoorlog | Cannabis University 2018
Een debat op Cannabis Bevrijdingsdag 2018 in de Cannabis University over de verharding van het Openbaar Ministerie. Kleine kwekers worden keihard aangepakt. Met: Ilonka Kamans Ilonka Kamans is sinds 1995 advocaat en zit “al vele jaren ambtshalve in de hennep”. Veel coffeeshopondernemers behoren tot haar clientèle. Sinds haar beëdiging voert zij een strijd tegen het […]
So what about hemp and CBD in China?
While the US only recently passed the 2018 Farm Bill which legalized industrial hemp, China is already ahead and has become the largest producer of hemp in the world with 400,000 acres/162,000 ha. Since a couple of years, China has also legalized the extraction of CBD from industrial hemp, which has been used in the increasing […]
South African “Robin Hood of cannabis oil” gets raided
“Tonight, I sit and write this story, in the hope that someone will listen to us. I write this in tears and frustration, I write this as a fugitive from the law. The reason for this? I make and distribute Cannabis oil on a charity basis to everyone that needs it.” On Friday, October 2nd, the […]
Study: International law allows for the legalisation of cannabis
Dutch researchers Piet Hein van Kempen and Masha Fedorova of Radboud University published their findings today, confirming what Cannabis News Network concluded earlier this year with a mini-series on (medicinal) cannabis as a human right. This new study follows the same outcome as the Mexican’s High Court’s decision to grand four activists to grow, transport […]
Take medical use of cannabis seriously, patients can’t wait
After the World Health Organization (WHO) initially failed to produce their recommendations, on February 1st their recommendations to reschedule cannabis were leaked. Last week, the European Parliament came with their response: take medicinal cannabis seriously. It’s an important message, as clinical trials and the entire pharma chain is taking far too long for patients. The product […]
The Big Raid On Little Rohel
Tuesday, June 12 is not a great day for the Frisian couple Tabe Koopmans and Brigitte Boomsma. They had to move with their animals to a cowshed. Not voluntarily, of course, but because their municipality De Fryske Marren closed their rental house for 3 months because there were 45 cannabis plants + 120 back-up cuttings […]
