Here's Your Cannabis News for
November 02, 2018

Sitting in the lounge at his home, dipping crisps into mayonnaise and listening to Lady Gaga, Alfie Dingley is a picture of serenity and childlike joy. The seven-year-old had up to 500 life-threatening seizures a month before he began treatment with a type of cannabis oil that could not be prescribed until today. Now, he lives a relatively normal life.

In the world of cannabis, knowing what's real medicine and what isn't is essential, GW Pharmaceuticals CEO Justin Gover tells Jim Cramer.

Covering cannabis at the top of the line in quality, and all within the journalistic side of the cannabis business has certainly opened my taste-buds to a broad array of flavors and 'terroir' that I thought only existed in the wine world. It's truly eye-opening to imagine all that time that I spent tasting fine wine growing up, only to discover in later years a much broader array of flavors like wine, inherent to cannabis. I discovered many similar attributes to fine wine, and vice-versa. 

Mexico’s highest court has ruled two complainants should be allowed to use cannabis for recreational purposes, setting a precedent that a ban on the drug is unconstitutional. 

Taking a four-week break from using marijuana may improve neurocognitive function in adolescents and young adults who regularly use cannabis, according to a new study from Harvard Medical School’s Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). This study, “One Month of Cannabis Abstinence in Adolescents and Young Adults Is Associated With Improved Memory,” was published October 30 in the Journal of Clinical Psychology.

Like some family office fund managers I’ve spoken to, you might be weighing a cannabis industry investment strategy. Some believe there’s extraordinary money to be made, particularly in the burgeoning U.S. market. But exceptional returns come with substantial risk, and most wealthy individual and family office investors don’t have the background or belly to play in the current market.

The potential of the global cannabis industry is so vast that it could eventually make the sky-high valuations of some Canadian licensed producers look like bargains, according to a new report from Bank of Montreal.

The cannabis investor conference in Hong Kong this week started with some stern warnings against smoking pot in the city, which can land you in prison. Then folks got down to talking business.