Good morning! We’re covering today Brazil’s promising cannabis market. A drop in Brazilian soybean exports. And a move to keep Brazil within Mercosur. (This newsletter is for platinum subscribers only. Become one now!)
No monopoly in Brazil’s future cannabis market
Brazilian pharmaceutical company Prati-Donaduzzi, from the state of Paraná, tried to patent cannabis oil-based products as its own invention. Prati-Donaduzzi was the first firm to produce 100-percent Brazilian cannabis oil, but its patent request was blocked by the National Institute of Industrial Property (Inpi) for not meeting the standards of a true “invention” (cannabidiol was first isolated...