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America’s Missed Opportunity in the Global Marijuana Market

Canna Law Blog

Of note, in this blog post I use the word cannabis when referring to the entire plant; it is also the word used in the 1961 Single Convention. I use the word marijuana to refer to cannabis exceeding 0.3% THC and hemp when referring to cannabis at, or below, 0.3% Unfortunately, state-legal U.S. In contrast, the U.S. How the U.S.

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Jamaican Lion: The Industry’s First Comprehensive Cannabis Reference Genome

Medicinal Genomics

Medicinal Genomics Corporation (MGC), a pioneer in using genomics to improve the transparency, safety and yield of cannabis has today announced the industry’s most comprehensive Cannabis reference genome, a high quality de novo genome assembly of the Jamaican Lion cannabis strain.

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Medicinal Genomics Secures Funding for a Better Cannabis Reference

Medicinal Genomics

Medicinal Genomics recently secured funding from the DASH network to create a better cannabis reference genome for controversially patented TypeII plants. Why do we need a better reference? The future of cannabis seed to sale tracking systems will be DNA fingerprint based. The old publishing incentives are broken.

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CBD Market Report

Project CBD

HerbalGram, the acclaimed quarterly journal of the American Botanical Council, recently published its 2021 “Herb Market Report,” which included data on sales of CBD as an herbal ingredient in mainstream and natural retail channels in the United States. E-commerce sales of CBD in the U.S. increase in annual sales.

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Connecticut chooses BioTrack as the state’s cannabis seed-to-sale tracking software

Cannabis Law Report

The BioTrack software, commonly referred to as seed-to-sale tracking, will track cannabis from when it is first planted as a seed to the point of sale to the consumer. Connecticut has shown their desire to be at the forefront of cannabis by looking for best-in-class software solutions. About Forian. Forian Inc.

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Hemp bill could solve medical patient dilemma

Illinois News Joint

La Shawn Ford , was referred to the Rules Committee. Although grow supply stores already have been openly selling seeds and clones, especially after the passing of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (Farm Bill), by law, Illinois medical patients have to purchase seeds from Illinois dispensaries.

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Hemp-CBD Across State Lines: Arkansas

Canna Law Blog

A smaller but growing number of states also regulate the sale of products derived from hemp. The rules also provide for “publicly marketable hemp product” which is differentiated from “industrial hemp products” and refers to “a hemp product that meets one or more of the following descriptions:”. (a) This week we turn to Arkansas.