José Bacellar

The Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference in Chicago, September 13-14, will celebrate the most recognized Latin American cannabis companies. This year's attendees will have the opportunity to meet the best Latin American brands in the industry that entered the emerging market and knew how to...

Canadian cannabis startup VerdeMed has been expanding across Latin America. Over the last few months, the company started selling CBD products to select patients in Brazil, won four public bids to supply local governments with cannabis-derived products, and closed a deal to supply its products...

By Natalia Kesselman, originally published on El Planteo. Last Tuesday, September the 1st, the Brazilian Chamber of Representatives’ Special Commission in charge of regulating cannabis-based medicines held an online meeting in the form of a public hearing. The objective of the assembly was to...

Wednesday, April 29, at 4:00 p.m. ET – 5 p.m. Brasilia and Buenos Aires time, Javier Hasse, managing director at Benzinga Cannabis, and co-founder and CEO of El Planteo, will be interviewed live on TV Folha. The channel belongs to Folha de Sao Paulo, one of the largest media outlets in Brazil...

By José Bacellar, president and CEO at VerdeMed. Anvisa paves the way for the Brazilian Congress to create a regulatory framework for medical cannabis. Brazil joins a group of 47 countries, including Canada, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Portugal, and the United States that have approved the...

Guests at the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference in Chicago last week heard from industry execs about their branding and corporate development during breakout sessions at the Palmer House.  VerdeMed  José Bacellar, president and CEO of Canadian pharmaceutical company...