For the first time in the UK, expert doctors have been given the option to legally issue prescriptions for cannabis-based medicines when they agree that their patients could benefit from this treatment. Patients can be prescribed medicinal cannabis by specialist doctors from 1 November 2018.

The Coca-Cola Co., the world’s largest beverage maker, is looking at a line of CBD beverages, the company confirmed Monday. “Along with many others in the beverage industry, we are closely watching the growth of nonpsychoactive CBD as an ingredient in functional wellness beverages around the world,” Coca-Cola spokesman Kent Landers said in a statement. 

Marijuana legalization may not be a top priority for the United States right now, but change is occurring all over the world. The last two years have been very significant for the global marijuana industry and countries like Germany, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Uruguay have legalized medical marijuana at the federal level.