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Nutritional High International Inc. (the "Company" or "Nutritional High") (CSE:NHL) is pleased to announce that the Company has entered into a binding letter of intent ("LOI") dated April 8, 2015, to acquire a 51% equity interest (the "Transaction") in Zephyr Management Inc. ("Zephyr"), an exclusive management company being established to provide management and real estate services to Sacred Garden ("Sacred Garden"), an entity licensed to produce medical cannabis in New Mexico.

ORLANDO, FLA. — Hemp ingredients may add protein, magnesium, phytosterols and fiber to products, said Tom Vierhile, innovation insights director for Datamonitor Consumer. Hemp is non-allergenic, and the plants are sustainably grown, he added.

Yet many people may associate hemp with marijuana, and that perception could put a buzz-kill on hemp’s entry into food and beverage product launches.

“Hemp is misunderstood,” Mr. Vierhile said in an April 9 presentation at Ingredient Marketplace in Orlando. “That is really one of the key problems with hemp going forward.”

A Lumby based medical marijuana company is looking to develop products in the pet nutrition industry and tap into a new market.

True Leaf Medicine International has applied to become a medical marijuana licenced producer and sees the pet industry as a new revenue source. True Leaf CEO Darcy Bomford sees pet nutrition as a “natural fit for his company” and will focus on pet products as an extension to the company.

Perth, April 9, 2015 AEST (ABN Newswire) - PhytoTech Medical Limited (ASX:PYL) is pleased to report that MMJ has received from Health Canada a "confirmation of readiness letter" that precedes the scheduling of a pre-licensing inspection. 

Highlights

- MMJ Bioscience Inc. ("MMJ") receives pre-inspection readiness request from Health Canada for its Duncan facility that traditionally precedes the scheduling of a pre-licence.

- There are currently only 22 companies holding facilities licensed to produce medical cannabis ("MC") in Canada under the MMPR, with MMJ-PYL on track to become one of the next.

The Town of Innisfil will now have more say as to where potential medical marijuana production facilities can set up shop in the municipality.

Councillors approved the final town-wide provisions for Health Canada licensed medical marijuana production facilities in committee-of-the-whole Wednesday night, in a record vote of 7-2.

The vote was the culmination of approximately 300 staff hours in drafting the provisions, which featured countless public meetings and presentations to council since early 2014.

Ross Aikins considers the evolution of substance use and how universities shape the debate.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper may find himself at odds with some other western hemisphere leaders who want to relax drug laws for offences such as marijuana use and provide “alternatives” to jail time.

Harper flies to Panama Friday for the two-day Summit of the Americas, where more than 30 leaders from the Organization of American States (OAS) will gather.

In recent years, there has been a growing movement among some of those nations — particularly those in South America devastated by violence from drug cartels — to find new ways to tackle the drug problem.

At the last summit, in Colombia in 2012, Harper resisted calls to consider decriminalization of some drugs.

The first clinic in Alberta intended to help patients navigate around the federal rules for medical marijuana could open in Inglewood by the end of April.

Clinic 420 will be located in the basement of the Swans of Inglewood pub on Ninth Ave. S.E. According to the owner, the store has had push back from residents.

"The word 'marijuana,' it frightens people," Jeff Mooiji told the Calgary Eyeopener on Thursday. 

Vancouver – True Leaf Medicine International LTD., the Quality of Life Company, which has applied to become a Health Canada Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulation (MMPR) licensed producer, has identified potential new revenue sources in the pet nutrition industry while it continues to engage in the medicinal cannabis licensing process.

With 30 years’ experience in the pet nutrition market, True Leaf CEO Darcy Bomford sees a natural fit for his company to combine its current focus with products for pets as a natural extension of the mission to provide customers with enhanced quality of life and is in negotiations to combine those two areas going forward.

Canadian cities looking for ways to jumpstart economic growth should maybe take a lesson from Nanaimo, B.C., which says it is reaping the benefits of a growing medical marijuana plant that opened last year.