TGA Australia: changes to medical cannabis quality, packaging and labelling requirements

TGA Australia: changes to medical cannabis quality, packaging and labelling requirements

ByBlaise

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) Australia has released details of the much-anticipated changes to medicinal cannabis quality, packaging and labelling requirements which will go into effect on July 1, 2023. Cannabiz exclusively revealed the TGA was considering reforming import quality standards in October 2020. Throughout the consultation period, issues were raised around an uneven playing field, where locally made medicinal…

ECS delivers 450% PCP growth in Q3 revenue, targets UK and European giants as new frontiers for its homegrown cannabis

ECS delivers 450% PCP growth in Q3 revenue, targets UK and European giants as new frontiers for its homegrown cannabis

ByBlaise

ECS Botanics has had another incredibly productive quarter, producing revenue of over $2m in Q3. And with the European majors opening up, the vertically integrated company says it’s in a great position with harvesting currently underway. Benchmark Aussie medicinal cannabis play ECS Botanics (ASX:ECS) has delivered more than $2million in revenue for the third quarter, as demand…

‘Our first cannabis crops failed, but we learned along the way’

‘Our first cannabis crops failed, but we learned along the way’

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Having a regulatory compliance expert for a husband may have kick-started her cannabis career, but Nan-Maree Schoerie is ploughing her own path in the industry. In the first of a two-part interview with Cannabiz, she tells of the early days of Murray Meds and explains why greenhouse growing is no longer sustainable in Australia. Sometimes in…

Indoor vs. high quality outdoor weed: A visual guide

Indoor vs. high quality outdoor weed: A visual guide

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This guide was created to help sift through the endless varieties of cannabis we now have available to us at dispensaries. Now, this doesn’t apply to all strains, because every strain has different characteristics and grows different with every farmer’s care. However, these tools can be used to help analyse the often subtle differences between…

ECS Botanics inks cannabis supply and tolling deal with Sun Pharma
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ECS Botanics inks cannabis supply and tolling deal with Sun Pharma

ByBlaise

Medicinal cannabis and hemp company ECS Botanics Holdings (ASX: ECS) has revealed it has entered into a collaborative supply and toll processing agreement for cannabis biomass extraction with pharmaceutical company Sun Pharma. Sun Pharma is an Australia-based subsidiary of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, the fourth largest specialty generic pharmaceutical company in the world. With global revenues in excess…

Germany: Likely future government supports cannabis legalisation

Germany: Likely future government supports cannabis legalisation

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The country’s next coalition government plans to keep cannabis tightly regulated, party representatives said. Recreational use of cannabis is only legal in two other EU countries. Germany’s future coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD), Green party, and Free Democrats (FDP), have signalled that they are seriously considering legalizing the possession of cannabis. Representatives from the parties told…

Alex Keach “I GREW UP WITH POPPY FIELDS ALL AROUND ME. SO, WHY NOT CANNABIS?”

Alex Keach “I GREW UP WITH POPPY FIELDS ALL AROUND ME. SO, WHY NOT CANNABIS?”

ByBlaise

Australian cannabis companies are standing out as making a cautious yet steady entry into the cannabis industry. One of these companies is ECS Botanics. “ECS Botanics started as a hemp company,” says Alex Keach, founder, and Managing Director of ECS Botanics. “We have a farm in Tasmania where we grow our cannabis outdoors.” The idea…

Cannabidiol: The ultimate investor’s guide to a potential $64 billion global market

Cannabidiol: The ultimate investor’s guide to a potential $64 billion global market

ByBlaise

Cannabis has been used as medicine for thousands of years. Ancient Indian, Chinese, and Egyptian civilisations have all employed it to cure various illnesses. But increasing recreational use and perceived harm to society meant that it has been outlawed in many countries since the early 20th century. In the US for example, cannabis was restricted…

Canngea attracted to ECS Botanics’ sustainably grown cannabis, inks deal

Canngea attracted to ECS Botanics’ sustainably grown cannabis, inks deal

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The company flagged additional revenue opportunities in the year ahead as it establishes traction as the leading B2B supplier in the Australian cannabis market as the supply agreement with Canngea finalised. Leading medicinal cannabis company ECS Botanics (ASX:ECS) continues to execute on a rapid growth trajectory, as it gains traction as the supplier of choice for a…

ECS Botanics Managing Director Message: Why Australia for Medicinal Cannabis

ECS Botanics Managing Director Message: Why Australia for Medicinal Cannabis

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Dear shareholders, FY21 has been a defining year for the company as we start to leverage assets that we have established in proceeding years. These include our production base, industry leading team and culture, intellectual property and systems. As a result, the company is at a major inflection point. We are now in a position…

Lean, mean and green: ECS Botanics, holds medicinal cannabis licenses and GMP standards to execute on a global market opportunity

Lean, mean and green: ECS Botanics, holds medicinal cannabis licenses and GMP standards to execute on a global market opportunity

ByBlaise

Managing Director, Alex Keach breaks down the demand dynamics for medicinal cannabis & GMP complaint products, as ECS Botanics Holdings looks to execute on a global market opportunity. After a multi-year period of development, the pieces are now in place for Australia to become a global leader in the production, sale and export of medicinal cannabis, ECS Botanics’ Managing…

Is medical marijuana legal in Australia – A Budding Industry

Is medical marijuana legal in Australia – A Budding Industry

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Australia has the potential to become the international gold standard for production of medicinal marijuana and multiple ASX-listed companies are seeking to benefit. – Is medical marijuana legal in Australia: Manufacturing of medicinal cannabis products has been legal in Australia since 2016-Australian revenue from medicinal cannabis projected to double in 2021 to $200m-Australia has the potential…

Industrial Hemp crops suited to warmer climate

Industrial Hemp crops suited to warmer climate

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The Northern Territory is exploring whether its warm winter weather could deliver an edge in Australia’s emerging industrial hemp market. Industrial hemp is an environmentally sustainable crop that can be used in thousands of products including building materials, textiles and beer. NT growers could be well-positioned to produce dry season fibre crops to supply southern…

Akerna News: Women Are Consuming More Cannabis Every Year

Akerna News: Women Are Consuming More Cannabis Every Year

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In every sector of culture and society, a shift towards greater diversity is moving the needle on what, and who is considered “typical”. This is as true in the realm of cannabis consumption as anywhere else, with the stereotype of surfer dude stoners and glazed and confused couch potatoes making way for women as the…

ECS Botanics jumps almost 5pc on $4.5 million Polish deal

ECS Botanics jumps almost 5pc on $4.5 million Polish deal

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ECS Botanics Holdings has secured a 5-year $4.5 million deal to supply Polish company Alivio Spolka with the GMP manufactured Medicinal Cannabis. Shares in ECS Botanics Holdings (ASX:ECS) have jumped almost 5% today after the company announced it secured a five-year agreement with Polish company Alivio Spolka for the supply of $4.5 million worth of GMP manufactured…

Low-Cost Medical Cannabis Flower To Be Exported From Colombia For The First Time

Low-Cost Medical Cannabis Flower To Be Exported From Colombia For The First Time

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Colombia is set to permit the export of medical cannabis flower for the first time in what could be a significant development for the global industry. Cultivating in an ideal equatorial climate which allows for quintuple annual harvests, with low labour costs, will see flower prices significantly undercutting global competition. In the United States the…

ECS Botanics boosts Medical Cannabis Operations Team as it pursues a global cannabis growth strategy

ECS Botanics boosts Medical Cannabis Operations Team as it pursues a global cannabis growth strategy

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ECS Botanics asx ecs has filled senior roles across Australia, Oceania and Europe. As it pursues a global distribution strategy, cannabis producer ECS Botanics asx ecs has put a focus through the middle part of this year on bolstering the strength of its management team. And this morning the company provided an important update on the hiring…