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  • European Cannabis Round-Up: New Figures Show Healthy Growth In Czech Medical Cannabis, Goodbody Health Sells CBD Facility, & French Study Reveals Ageing Cannabis Users

    European Cannabis Round-Up: New Figures Show Healthy Growth In Czech Medical Cannabis, Goodbody Health Sells CBD Facility, & French Study Reveals Ageing Cannabis Users

    Czechia’s Medical Cannabis

    AS Czechia races ahead with plans to launch a fully regulated adult-use cannabis market, with the potential to beat Germany to the punch, new data suggests its medical cannabis market is also experiencing healthy growth. 

    In January 2022, Czechia made significant changes to its medical cannabis framework making it much easier for patients to access products. 

    This has helped drive an increase in patient numbers of almost 25{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} in the 11 months to November 2022, compared to full-year 2021. 

    In 2021, patient numbers grew by 22.5{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} to 4601, in the first 11 months of 2022 patient numbers grew to 5744. 

    According to newly released data from Czechia’s State Agency For Medical Cannabis, there was also a significant jump in November, with patient numbers topping 2000 for the first time in a single month. 

    This was reflected in the number of grams of medical cannabis issued, increasing nearly 10{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} month-on-month and nearly 30{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} when compared to January 2022. 

    Earlier this year CEO of the Czech patients association KOPAC, Hana Vágnerová, told Prohibition Partners that the most significant barrier to market growth was that ‘only specialised doctors who register for providing medical cannabis can treat patients and this number stands at 150 as of February 2022, or about one such specialist per 100,000 people’.

    The government’s new data suggests that by November this had increased by 13{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} to 168, and could now stand at over 200. 

    While January’s changes to legislation have helped drive a steady increase in the market, other factors including a single domestic cultivator, restrictive licensing and continued restrictions on who can prescribe are hampering further expansion. 

    Period No. prescriptions issued No.of grams issued No. patients No. of prescribing doctors
    January 2055 11607.63 1721 151
    February 1872 10526.19 1580 152
    March 2275 12362.23 1816 153
    April 2088 11620.87 1743 144
    May 2401 13202.4 1973 150
    June 2347 13758.58 1961 156
    July 1959 12391.75 1694 156
    August 2221 13282.76 1886 159
    September 2364 14236.64 1985 163
    October 2311 13606.73 1993 162
    November 2591 14911.67 2194 168
    Total 24484 141507,45 5744 212

    Voyager Life Expands Into Poland

    Scottish CBD firm Voyager Life has announced the £1.5m acquisition of a CBD extraction and manufacturing facility in Poland from its UK-based CBD stablemate Goodbody Health.

    On December 16 Voyager announced that it planned to take ‘full operational control’ of the facility on January 1 2023. 

    The GMP certified facility is understood to have been bought by Stillcanna (which subsequently merged with Goodbody) for £13m in 2019.

    Its sale at nearly a tenth of its original price marks the latest move away from the CBD industry from Goodbody, which has pivoted its focus increasingly towards COVID and blood testing initiatives in recent months. 

    While there was no indication that Goodbody planned to stop selling its range of CBD products, it said in a parallel statement that ‘the levels of CBD sales by Goodbody Health were insufficient justification for meeting the costs of running a full extraction plant and the level of management input.’

    Meanwhile Voyager says it now plans to begin manufacturing its CBD products in Poland, alongside producing other plant-based products like essential oils and cold-pressed hemp seed oil.

    The company says this will turn it into a vertically integrated, pan-European business, giving it control over its supply chain from extraction to manufacture and retail.

    It will also see Voyager acquire the shares of Goodbody’s subsidiaries Sativa Wellness Poland and Olimax. 

    Voyager will pay £0.5m in cash, and the further £1m in convertible loan notes ‘subject to regulatory approval’ being granted by Polish authorities. 

    To fund the acquisition, Voyager has reportedly raised around £550k from new investors, existing shareholders and its CEO Nick Tulloch and Non-Executive Chairman Eric Boyle. 

    According to Voyager, the aforementioned directors have ‘irrevocably agreed to subscribe for £200k of the £550k.’ 

    However, these investments are understood to take the pair over the threshold of the ‘Takeover Code’, which stipulates any shareholders which carry more than 30{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of the voting rights must make a cash offer to purchase the rest of the shares. 

    Shareholders will be asked to vote on whether to waive this obligation in a ‘forthcoming general meeting’. 

    Alongside this, Voyager intends to issue nearly 3m new ordinary shares at a price of 12p per share on Aquis, raising proceeds of £0.35m, to partially fund the acquisition. 

    French Study Sheds Light On Cannabis Usage

    A new trends study of 23,661 adults aged 18 to 64, conducted by the French Observatory of Drugs and Addictive Trends (OFDT), revealed that the age of cannabis users had increased significantly over the past 30 years. 

    According to the study, published on December 19, the average age of current cannabis users has risen from 25 in 1992 to 32 in 2021. 

    For those under 25 however, usage has been falling since 2017. Experimentation dropped 5.5{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} between 2017 and 2021, while regular usage fell by 2.1{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} to 6.3{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}. 

    Conversely, the percentage of 45 to 54-year-olds who say they consumed cannabis at least once a month grew from 2.9{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} to 3.4{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} since 2017, while the number of 55 to 64-year olds who had consumed cannabis during the year also grew from 1.6{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} to 2.5{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}. 

    General consumption remained relatively stable, with 47.3{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of those surveyed stating they had used cannabis in their lifetime. 

    Cannabis continued to be the most widely used illicit substance in France, with 10.6{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of adults stating they had consumed it in the last year, a level similar to that in 2017. 

    More regular consumption appeared to be falling however, with those consuming cannabis 10 or more times a month dropping from 3{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} in 2017 to 1.7{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} in 2021, and those consuming daily dropping from 3.6{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} to 2.2{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} over the same period. 

  • Mother’s Day: Mental health tips for new mom, maternal figures to keep mind calm | Health

    Mother’s Day: Mental health tips for new mom, maternal figures to keep mind calm | Health

    Our mothers are a walking miracle as they understand us even when we do not talk but this Mother’s Working day 2022 is a good time to enable them place down the burden of societal expectations, slow down, acquire a breath and prioritise their individual emotional and mental well being even even though they barely have the time to search after their actual physical wellbeing adequately. In a society exactly where motherhood and sacrifice are typically observed as synonyms, far more generally than not, mothers are not getting treatment of by themselves and according to a survey, mothers put their health and fitness and wellbeing at the conclude of the checklist for the reason that they juggle a lot of roles these kinds of as caregiver, husband or wife, homemaker, worker, daughter-in-legislation and various other individuals. 

    Just about every of these roles is ruled by attitudes, beliefs, and views and most of them have a set of several unrealistic expectations and calls for, which generally prove to be hugely taxing on one’s physical and psychological wellness. In accordance to health specialists, postpartum despair is quite common in India as it affects around 20-25{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of first time mothers in our place in which girls go via lifestyle-switching physical, psychological and emotional activities at the time of childbirth. 

    With psychological well being care at a breaking issue, several new moms come to feel more and more isolated and remaining to fend for on their own for this reason, postpartum depression can possibly manifest for the initially time in being pregnant, for the initial time write-up shipping or it could be preceded by a issue recognised or unrecognised prior to the woman is pregnant. In an interview with HT Way of life, Wellness Coach Veena Majitya, shared, “Stress and stress are a typical element of present day existence. We usually deal with a scenario that we go by way of in individual as well as in qualified everyday living. In conditions like these, it is helpful to know or understand how to tranquil by yourself down.”

    She encouraged, “One need to often begin by taking a deep breath. Getting a deep breath can help you to concentration and launch stress and make you relax a lot faster than everything else. If you’re beneath stress at get the job done just just take 5 minutes of going for walks. Look close to get fresh new air it will assist you think greater and enable to arrive up with distinct selections. The most crucial and proven system is to meditate. Meditation is not just crossing your leg and closing your eyes. It necessitates you to sit quietly and focus on your respiration and it will profit you to regulate your feelings very well, chill out, launch strain and preserve your mind serene.”

    Bringing her experience to the identical and suggesting psychological overall health guidelines for mothers and maternal figures to preserve their mind tranquil, Sheetal Shaparia, Life Coach, Astrologer and Tasseographe, uncovered, “If you want to preserve your mind serene, you 1st need to preserve your human body secure. Our thoughts and human body are interconnected so if your human body is nutritious, your intellect sooner or later gets relaxed. A handful of routines that you can take into consideration to do is standard physical exercise, ingesting on time, obtaining balanced foods and receiving seem snooze. Enjoy out for pondering traps, they are uncomplicated to make us drop into a unfavorable spiral.”

    She additional, “Over- contemplating factors will never direct us in the ideal course. You should latch onto these matters that reinstate positivity amongst us. Slow down and chill out, give you time, satisfy or hook up with close friends and family and chortle out. We normally hear persons expressing ‘I woke up on the completely wrong side of the bed’. The finest trick is to sleep with constructive ideas and wake up with clean views. Affirmations are a wonderful way to instil motivational thoughts in your head. Start off with beneficial affirmations at the starting of the day so that you come to feel great inside of out for the relaxation of the day.”

    According to Mylo’s Mother’s Working day study carried out with 2000 anticipating and new mothers, it was uncovered that 76{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} mothers say that the juggling act every single working day is the root cause of strain, for 50{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of mothers – aiming for content and not great is their panacea for calm, talking to someone they rely on can help 52{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of moms destress, mothers change to their very own moms as their most sought after ‘vent buddy’ and virtually 50{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of mothers concur that maternal mental wellbeing is an ignored issue owing to a absence of comprehending.

    Richa Vashista, Main Mental Overall health Skilled at AtEase, explained, “Being a new mother can be a thrilling working experience but concurrently it can bring about a complex mix of feelings like panic and concern. It is essential to understand and cope with Submit Partum Melancholy (PPD) as it may possibly have harmful effects on the loved ones and the woman’s self-confidence in her capability to be a great mother. While a new mom attempts to present the finest treatment for her little one, relatives and herself, she needs to locate some techniques to choose care of her personal health and fitness as nicely.”

    She advisable, “Exercising and preserving a nutritious diet regime during the postpartum interval is one particular way to improve psychological well-currently being as effectively as simplicity the signs or symptoms of postpartum despair. Bonding with the newborn rewards both of those the mother and the youngster as close contact with the toddler releases oxytocin, which can make a mom feel happier. New moms should not overlook to acquire treatment of by themselves although they focus on the tiny 1. Training self-care, expending quality time with family & pals, creating time to relaxation to cope with misplaced sleep and partaking in hobbies are an significant section of postpartum care and restoration.”