The UK’s best known wellness and plant medicine expo, Product Earth, is back for 2024
We’ve only bloody done 30 of these(!). So it’s quite fitting that such a resounding number should come with a poignant message.
Ahead of our native UK hosting one of the biggest events in the cannabis calendar – Cannabis Europa – it’s clear that a regulatory reluctance persists here in Britain.
Propounded by a slow-to-emerge medical market, and despite best efforts by many concerned parties can feel, at times, like the message isn’t being heard.
But, as any good lobbyist will tell you (much more eloquently), when it comes to government, it isn’t a thing until it’s a thing. And short of getting politicians in a room and extolling the virtues of the plant from a medicinal and economic perspective (which is happening on 5th July – hat tip the CIC!) and giving them a solid regulatory framework, every single piece of awareness and advocacy plays an incremental role in normalisation.
So stick at it, beautiful people. We shall overcome.
And now, some words to live from one of the greatest bass players of all time.
“Please don’t throw your shit at me…unless that shit resembles a bag of marijuana.” Les Claypool
UK Missing Out On £1 billion By Not Legalising Recreational Cannabis
New research conducted ahead of this year’s Cannabis Europa – from organisers, Prohibition Partners – makes a compelling financial case for recreational usage: to the tune of some £1 billion.
(ok… $1,225,876,113 at today’s £ to $ exchange rate)
Yup, by 2026, the UK’s medical cannabis market could be worth over £453m by 2026 – almost a quarter of the European market.
But, if Boris and co. were to fully legalise cannabis this year – and get recreational sales up and running by 2024 – we’d be banking an additional £627m by 2026.
We put it to you, thermidorks< why the heck aren’t we doing it? Could the UK be a leading light in the global cannabis sector?
And nope – we don’t want answers on a postcard – we’re gonna be asking attendees this very question at Cannabis Europa. So if you see a couple of dudes in green caps and black tees effing about with a GoPro, don’t be a stranger: we want your opinion. Come tell us your thoughts!
The first of two big moves and shakes this week as our friends in Spain approve sales of medical cannabis by the close of 2022. Yes, there are stipulations in la Madre Patria but they’re taking a sensible approach to evidence based legislation. Thumbs up.
