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Medical cannabis

  • 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 [...]

  • Snoop Dogg-backed company making painkillers from cannabis to list in London

    May 18, 2021

    A pharmaceutical company that develops cannabinoid-based prescription medicine and is backed by Snoop Dogg will list on London’s main market later this week. The listing is expected to take place on Friday 21 and will value the company at around £48m. The public offering has been heavily oversubscribed. Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies (OCT) aims to develop [...]

  • Exclusive: Medical cannabis company chaired by former Lord Mayor of London to float on LSE

    May 12, 2021

    Hellenic Dynamics, a medical cannabis cultivation business, plans to list on the London Stock Exchange next month, in a move likely to give the budding business a valuation of £50m. The group will list on the main market of the London Stock Exchange via reverse takeover into a shell company. “What we were looking for [...]

  • Exclusive: EU’s biggest hemp producer sees profits grow 616 per cent in 2020

    May 3, 2021

    HempFlax saw its profits before tax skyrocket 616 per cent in 2020 to €659,000, as demand grew for its construction materials and CBD. The EU’s biggest hemp grower, headquartered in Holland, saw full year revenues up 43 per cent to €14.5m in 2020, with EBITDA increasing 63 per cent to €1.8m. The numbers were in [...]

  • Back of the net: Beckham-backed cannabis company scores soaring market debut

    February 26, 2021

    UK-based Cellular Goods, a cannabis company backed by David Beckham, has seen its stock price soar on its first day trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The company’s share price rocketed 310 per cent in early trading, continuing the trend of cannabis-related companies listing on the stock market in the UK and then soaring [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Will London’s budding cannabis market turn the EU green with envy?

    February 18, 2021

    One after the other, medical cannabis companies are listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), and investors are piling in cash, keen to be early investors in what they hope will become a major industry in the UK. It is an exciting time for the medicinal cannabis industry. In September, City regulator the Financial Conduct [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Medical cannabis firm MGC Pharmaceuticals to float on LSE

    February 9, 2021

    Medicinal cannabis firm MGC Pharmaceuticals has announced plans to float on the main market of the London Stock Exchange. MGC Pharma is a European-based bio-pharma company specialising in the production and development of phytocannabinoid-derived medicines. As part of the listing process, the company intends to raise gross proceeds of approximately £6.5m via institutional and other [...]

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