An Australian company says its THC-free tablet could become the world’s first registered prescription CBD painkiller. Its chief executive also says the trial didn’t outperform a placebo. Both things ran on the same day, in different outlets. An Australian company has asked regulators to register what it calls the world’s first prescription CBD tablet for… Keep Reading
Dutch company Loop Biotech’s Living Cocoon is a biodegradable coffin made from mycelium and recycled hemp fibers that can break down in roughly 45 days while helping return nutrients to the soil. The concept gained fresh attention after a 70-year-old woman named Carolyn became the first person in Australia to be buried in one. What… Keep Reading
A drug company spent nearly eight years fighting the DEA to make cannabis medicine the hard way. Now that everyone else is getting an easier path, it’s in court trying to undo the whole thing, a move that could send cannabis back to Schedule I for the entire industry. MMJ International Holdings spent nearly eight… Keep Reading
Trulieve becomes the first U.S. cannabis company to trade on the NYSE on June 10. To get through the door, it carved the recreational weed out of the company entirely. Wall Street is letting in a U.S. weed company for the first time. Just not the recreational side of it. Florida-based Trulieve said on June… Keep Reading
In Baranoa, Colombia, a medical cannabis company has just launched a solar farm to power part of its own operation. The project, presented by the Ministry of Mines and Energy as the first initiative of its kind in the Colombian Caribbean, brings together 147 solar panels, self-generated energy and medical weed cultivation under one agroindustrial… Keep Reading
GÜD Essence CEO Jasmine Johnson has been building a Black woman-led cannabis company in Florida since 2016. In an exclusive interview with High Times, she breaks down what equity in this market actually looks like in practice, and what it has cost her to find out. “I’ve been involved in this process since 2016,” says… Keep Reading
What do you give someone who already has everything? That’s the question Distinctive Assets, the company responsible for gifting Oscar nominees, must have asked itself every year for the past 24 years. And yesterday, at the 98th Academy Awards ceremony, the answer appears to have been a rather redundant “everything”: a medley of luxury items,… Keep Reading
