European Cannabis is the Emerging Market to Attract North American Investment

By Mark Wheeler, Hill Dickinson

Following the launch of Europe’s first medical cannabis Exchange Traded Fund (ETF), which aims to provide targeted exposure to the rapidly expanding medical cannabis industry, there is renewed interest and buzz in the European cannabis market for investors on a domestic and global scale. Whilst there is recent news of major North American cannabis companies undertaking cost reduction exercises, this is reflective of rapid expansion being curtailed to drive profitability, and also something the market has been expecting. The cannabis sector will evolve as the regulatory landscape develops.

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Judge A Book By Its Cover:
Why Understanding Information Economics is Critical to Gain Consumer Trust and Build a Sustainable Brand

By Nathan Libbey, PathogenDx

Information economics has existed for decades and drives much of how products, including cannabis, are marketed and purchased. Understanding different product attributes is key to setting up a sustainable cannabis product, corporation, and industry.

USDA Announces Risk Management
Programs for Hemp

By Aaron G. Biros, Editor-in-Chief

The USDA announced the launch of a pilot hemp insurance program as well as a Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance program that hemp growers can apply for immediately.

Consumables for the Cannabis Lab

Shimadzu offers a wide range of consumables for the cannabis lab, such as standards, vials, solvents, sample prep devices, and columns, including the NexLeaf brand for potency and pesticides, allowing you to obtain high-quality data and keep your lab running efficiently.

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Nepal’s Parliament Debates Legalizing Cannabis

By Marguerite Arnold, MedPayRx

A move to cultivate cannabis would also coincide with banning the importation of high proof alcoholic beverages.

ANAB Accredits Pure Labs

By Cannabis Industry Journal Staff

Last week, ANAB announced the accreditation of Phoenix, Arizona-based Pure Labs, LLC to ISO/IEC 17025.

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The future is bright for the cannabis industry and its players. Only daylight ahead and the billows of bureaucratic smoke are parting hopefully—eventually—with regard to the incongruity between state and federal law on the issue. That’s a lot of ink to say that the next few years will be monumental for the cannabis industry.

Melissa Kuipers Blake, Lobbyist at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

German Medical Cannabis Imports
Doubled in 2019. So What?

By Marguerite Arnold

Germany imported close to 7.5 tons of medical cannabis flower last year – but what is the real temperature of the market?

Dank Until Gone Dark:
The State of Corporate Insolvency for Cannabis Businesses

By Aaron L. Hammer, David S. Ruskin & Nathan E. Delman; HMB Law

Legal options for insolvent cannabis businesses is a new challenge. Society is trending in the direction of a more permissive attitude toward cannabis, so it should follow that the legislatures and courts accept this shift and afford distressed cannabis businesses the same opportunities to reorganize or orderly liquidate just like other legal business entities.