After blockbuster Aphria-Tilray merger, world’s largest cannabis company eyes U.S. market
[18.12.2020]
Tilray and Aphria, two of the biggest marijuana companies in Canada, announced plans to merge and create the world’s largest cannabis outfit. With ex ...
Mexico, plagued by cartel wars, on cusp of legal cannabis 'green rush'
[01.10.2020]
Senate majority leader Ricardo Monreal expects a law to be passed before December for recreational use of the drug, allowing regulated private firms ...
Cannabis: A rush to corporate capture?
[30.09.2020]
Finance minister Tito Mboweni expects the newly legal cannabis industry to pour an estimated R4 billion into the government’s dwindling tax coffers w ...
eSwatini: A brief tale of two laws
[18.09.2020]
The U.S. company Stem Holdings reported in 2019 that it had “received preliminary approval to become the only licensed growing farm and processing pl ...
Cannabis Regulation and Development
[09.09.2020]
Significant policy shifts have led to an unprecedented boom in medical cannabis markets, while a growing number of countries are moving towards the l ...
King Mswati, Stem Holdings and the multi-billion political dagga cold war
[01.08.2020]
King Mswati allegedly entered into a deal with Stem Holdings and manipulated provisions of the Prevention of Organized Crime Act (POCA) by unleashing ...
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