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...Her empire has spread beyond iron ore to cattle stations, energy assets and investments in start-ups ranging from rare earths to neurotechnology and medicinal cannabis....
...Wednesday’s discovery of a cannabis farm in a building near the Bank of England led to all the predictable online quips. “They hit the jackpot,” said one Twitter user....
...Jay has added to his CV the title of “chief visionary officer” of a Spac backed by Roc Nation, the music and spot talent agency he heads, which acquired two cannabis groups in November....
...£33m legal bill for Amanda Staveley case (FT) Grab Is in talks to go public through a Spac merger (WSJ) Renault to sell Daimler stake for €1.2bn (FT) British American Tobacco takes stake in Canadian cannabis...
...UK rival Diageo is wary of getting carried away by the cannabis hype....
...While he expects a general growth in more cannabis-infused beverages, he added: “It’s really key that the cannabis industry is held at least to the same high standards as our industry.”...
...This is not the first time that Lloyd’s has covered cannabis....
...Other members of staff told the newspaper that the man’s dreadlocks were mocked and that Sir Philip appeared to believe, based on his ethnicity, that he was using cannabis....
...Coca-Cola sniffs out cannabis market Coca-Cola is examining the market for cannabis-related products....
...“We would like to be, potentially, the world’s number one cannabis supplier, said Greg Hunt, Australia’s minister for health....
...The recent news that UK-based GW Pharmaceuticals had received approval from the Food and Drug Administration for the first cannabis-derived medicine to be made available in the US — 20 years after the company...
...“Allowing the export of medicinal cannabis products will help the developing market to grow further.”...
...“They need access to quality products,” says Mr Yasunaga, describing Mitsui’s recent investment in R-Pharm, the Russian drugs group....
...An ecological co-working space and a medical cannabis dispensary are a stone’s throw away from the asset manager’s office on Howard Street....
...“We are a significant player in the cannabis space,” says Saul Kaye, iCAN’s founder and chief executive....
...War, on drugs Mushrooms, cannabis and “panzer chokolade” — throughout history, those going into battle have used drugs to get in the mood....
...Another Aim-listed company, GW Pharmaceuticals, has raised $450m on Nasdaq since adopting a dual-listing in 2013 and this month saw its market capitalisation double after positive results from trials of a cannabis-based...
...International Goldfields, a gold explorer, has outlined plans to buy an 85 per cent stake in Winter Garden, an Uruguay-based company that develops cannabis products to sell overseas....
...A year ago, it became legal to sell cannabis in Colorado for non-medical use, and other US states have followed suit....
...GW Pharmaceuticals hit a record high, up 4.9 per cent to 587p, after trial results published by the American Academy of Neurology suggested its cannabis oil reduced seizures suffered by epilepsy patients...
...GW Pharmaceuticals was among the biggest small-cap gainers this week on optimism that its cannabis oil can be used to treat childhood epilepsy....
...(WSJ $) It’s a big day for… GW Pharma The UK-based producer of non-hallucinogenic prescription cannabis reports fourth-quarter results and progress in expanding Sativex from pain relief to epilepsy, as...
...Investors experience a yen for GW’s medicinal cannabis Investors displayed a craving for cannabis as they pushed GW Pharmaceuticals, a company developing painkillers based on the drug, to the summit of...
...GW Pharmaceuticals, the developer of cannabis-based painkillers, continued its yo-yo performance this week, as its shares joined the biggest small-cap risers....
...crisis (Bloomberg) No kick-start coming for China’s stalled growth engine (Financial Times, Rabinovitch) For students of perverse incentives created by tax, it is a bonanza week (Financial Times, Gapper) Cannabis...
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