Pharma C Investments values CBD trade show Product Earth at £3.68m November 7, 2021 Pharma C Investments, an early-stage investor and venture builder in the medical cannabis space, invests £275,000 into Product Earth, valuing it at at £3.68m.
Green and pleasant land? The future of cannabis use in the UK July 29, 2021 Smoking as a social activity suffered a heavy blow around 15 years ago. Between 2006 and 2007, the four parts of the United Kingdom brought in new laws prohibiting smoking in public places, with Scotland being the first to take the leap. I bear a sliver of responsibility: I worked for the House of Commons [...]
LSE-listed Kanabo to buy distributor and stoke European cannabis uptake July 26, 2021 Kanabo, the first medical cannabis company to list on London’s top market, is set to buy a distributing company as it plots expansion into Europe. The deal with Materia, a processor and distributor of medical cannabis and CBD products, will make Kanabo Europe’s largest public cannabis company. Kanabo’s board has been eyeing new partnerships to [...]
Anthony Joshua becomes shareholder in CBD firm Love Hemp June 21, 2021 British boxer Anthony Joshua has become a shareholder in Love Hemp, the UK’s leading CBD and hemp products supplier. Joshua has signed a three-year endorsement deal from next month when he will take up the role of international ambassador for the brand. Love Hemp will also collaborate with the two-time heavyweight champion on a licenced [...]
Isle of Man opens licence applications for new cannabis export sector June 11, 2021 The Isle of Man Government has opened licence applications for the production, distribution and export of medicinal cannabis products from the island. It marks a major step in the IOM’s bid to be a world-leading exporter of medicinal cannabis, which will provide economic investment and development for the island. “I am delighted to welcome licence [...]
Painkiller maker Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies debuts on London’s market May 21, 2021 Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies (OCT), which makes painkillers using cannabis components, has debuted on the London Stock Exchange this morning, offering £0.01 per share. The UK-based company, a pre-revenue pharmaceutical company developing cannabinoid-based prescription medicines, will begin trading on the capital’s main market at 8:00 this morning. Offering around 960m ordinary shares, OCT is set to [...]
Exclusive: Purity Hemp CEO on the UK’s fast-growing medical cannabis market February 24, 2021 After losing his sister to cancer and his best man to an opioid addiction, Canada-born, London-based Michael Walker felt he should explore alternative healthcare options so not to rely on Big Pharma. The former head of marketing at Heathrow Express left the advertising industry in 2016 to set up his own company, the Purity Wellness [...]
NBA star Chris Webber partners with asset manager to launch $100m cannabis impact fund February 17, 2021 NBA All-Star Chris Webber has partnered with JW Asset Management to launch a $100m private equity fund that will invest in companies led by entrepreneurs of colour working in the cannabis sector. The pair will collaborate to invest in underrepresented entrepreneurs in the cannabis industry and provide them with resources that will help them grow [...]
Cannabis rally goes up in smoke as shares plummet February 11, 2021 Cannabis stocks gave up its earlier highs on Thursday afternoon with leading US firms plummeting between 20 and 40 per cent. Cannabis stocks were among the most traded by German retail investors this morning, as a buying frenzy that has lit up the sector intensified. Tilray was the most traded stock on German trading platform [...]
The new Greenback: Why investors are getting high on medicinal cannabis firms February 8, 2021 Avihu Tamir is CEO of Kanabo For years, advocates of medicinal cannabis products have predicted that the industry is set to revolutionise healthcare – and make investors a tidy profit. That time may finally be coming. Take our firm, Kanabo Group, which became the first medicinal cannabis company to get approval from the Financial Conduct [...]