International Cannabis Weekly: 152

• 60 elected French officials call for cannabis legalisation post-pandemic.
• Switzerland releases details on upcoming recreational cannabis experiment.

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• France begins issuing on-the-spot fines for first cannabis use offences.
• Bedrocan products will be temporarily unavailable in Germany due to stocking issues.
• Germany led the EU in both cannabis imports and exports across 2019.
• Irish political parties agree to review medical cannabis use regulations.
• Spain’s Canamedics Labs signs joint venture with Medcann Pharma.

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• Nevada pardons more than 15,000 people with past minor cannabis convictions.
• Louisiana expands medical cannabis coverage to include any debilitating condition.
• Michigan recreational cannabis sales eclipse medical sales for the first time.
• New Jersey assembly passes bill to decriminalise cannabis possession.
• First ‘Big Tobacco’ company to enter the hemp space files for bankruptcy.
• MedMen’s co-founders step down from the company’s Board of Directors.

• Canada considers regulatory fee deferral for cannabis firms due to COVID-19.
• Canadian exports of medical cannabis oil jump fivefold in 2019.
• MP calls on cabinet to decriminalise drugs after fatal overdoses rise in British Columbia.
• Aurora’s president to step down amid restructuring as hundreds of jobs are cut.
• Ontario’s Hexo to be dropped from Toronto Stock Exchange.
• Canopy Growth doubles CEO salary amid mass layoffs.

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• Rio de Janeiro now the first Brazilian state to allow cultivation by patient groups.
• Cannabis arrests fall in Trinidad and Tobago six months on from decriminalisation.
• US Virgin Islands governor says cannabis is a safer pain treatment than opioids.

• New Australian law amendment to boost cannabis exports after COVID-19 crisis eases.
• Nepal introduces new hemp bill to Parliament, including controversial THC limit.
• Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands governor signs new hemp bill into law.

• MGC Pharma signs import, sale, and distribution agreement for CannEpil® in Israel.
• Eco Equity announces US$12.7 million loan note offer to fund project in Zimbabwe.

• Medical cannabis reduces migraine frequency by >60% and lowers medication intake.
• Concentrates spike THC levels but don’t necessarily get users higher, finds new study.
• Research says smoking cannabis does not increase stroke risk.

• Psychedelics can be safer depression treatments for older adults, say experts.
• Colorado activists likely to pursue 2022 ballot measure for psilocybin decriminalisation.
• Psilocybin dulls activity in a brain region linked to consciousness, find researchers.
• MindMed to evaluate therapeutic use of DMT in Phase 1 clinical trial.
• Mydecine Innovations signs agreement to acquire Mindleap Health’s telehealth platform.
• GreenStar Biosciences signs non-binding LOI to acquire Eleusian Biosciences.