The world’s largest publicly traded cannabis company, Canopy Growth, will be the first to be allowed to import medicinal cannabis in bulk into the UK. The company’s pharmaceutical division — Spectrum Therapeutics — told the Financial Times on Tuesday that it had been granted a licence by the Home Office that will allow it to import cannabis from Canopy’s distribution facility in Germany and 430,000 sq ft greenhouse in Denmark, and to store it in its Buckinghamshire facility. Currently, patients in need of medical cannabis, which was legalised last November, can wait up to three months for specialist wholesalers to be granted an import licence and transport the product to the UK. Read More...
The world’s largest publicly traded cannabis company, Canopy Growth, will be the first to be allowed to import medicinal cannabis in bulk into the UK. The company’s pharmaceutical division — Spectrum Therapeutics — told the Financial Times on Tuesday that it had been granted a licence by the Home Office that will allow it to import cannabis from Canopy’s distribution facility in Germany and 430,000 sq ft greenhouse in Denmark, and to store it in its Buckinghamshire facility. Currently, patients in need of medical cannabis, which was legalised last November, can wait up to three months for specialist wholesalers to be granted an import licence and transport the product to the UK.
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