United Kingdom

Celadon Pharmaceuticals announced today (November 16) that it has secured a new sales contract with an unnamed European medical cannabis company. The UK-based company is focused on the development, production, and sale of cannabis-based medicines contract is for the commercial sale of its

James Leavesley and Brady Green, head grower at Dalgety, discuss what insights the UK can glean from more advanced markets. While the UK medicinal cannabis market shows evidence of a promising future for healthcare and the economy, it is still in its infancy when compared with other countries. James

It’s been five years since medical marijuana use has been legal in the United Kingdom and new reports reveal that the import of medical cannabis has tripled in volume this year. The need for cannabis as medicine was highlighted by two cases involving children with severe epilepsy. One is Billy

The parents of a four-year-old girl with epilepsy are pleading for access to medicinal cannabis on the NHS. Clover, from Frome, in Somerset, has Aicardi syndrome, a rare genetic neurological disorder which causes her to have hundreds of seizures a week. Her parents say cannabis oil reduces the

A man has been jailed after police discovered about 6,000 cannabis plants growing in a Lincolnshire warehouse. Minh Nguyen, 43, used the former King Road Tyres site, in Hubberts Bridge, to produce one of the largest farms discovered by Lincolnshire Police. In a raid on 31 January, officers found

A survey to understand the scale of UK cannabis industry banking challenges has been launched by the Cannabis Industry Council (CIC). This follows ongoing anecdotal concerns across the industry about accessibility issues for bank accounts and other financial services. Without a business bank account

UK food regulators have lowered the recommended safe daily dose of cannabidiol (CBD), a cannabis extract present in many different High Street products, including drinks and snacks. The Food Standards Agency says the advice is precautionary, following concerns long-term use might cause liver and

A crop of nearly 1,000 cannabis plants have been discovered by police in a former Marks and Spencer outlet. Drugs squad officers swooped on the empty shop in Buxton, Derbyshire, and found the cannabis where shoppers had once browsed for cosmetics and clothes. Lights and an irrigation system had been

A white van spotted on CCTV led police to uncover an £88,000 cannabis factory. The factory was found spread out over three floors of an empty shop on a high street in Bangor in North Wales. Bedri Elezi, 36, who was living in Fairfield, Liverpool, Agron Aruci, 30, and Fabjol Mucaj, 21, all Albanian

The landlord initially claimed he was producing cannabis oil to help fellow gout sufferers. The landlord of a pub turned the building into a cannabis farm after the business folded. The bar boss began growing wholesale quantities of the drug in the otherwise empty premises which he then supplied to

A man with Tourette's who spends thousands on medicinal cannabis has called on the government to make the drug more readily available on the NHS. Conor Ryder, from Dorset, gets his prescriptions from a private clinic and said it was the only drug that controlled his severe tics. But cannabis has

A high-profile government climbdown that legalised a type of cannabis medicine on the NHS five years ago misled patients, campaigners say. It was thought the law change would mean the unlicensed drug, which treats a range of conditions, could be freely prescribed by specialist doctors. But fewer