Notes and stories from across JMCC Group.
Cold Plasma vs. Irradiation: Safeguarding Cannabis Quality
Why irradiation isn’t the best choice for dealing with potential contaminants in cannabis for producers focused on maximizing whole-plant therapeutic benefits.
Read more →JMCC Offers Solution to Medical Cannabis Supply-Demand Imbalance
How licensed producers of cannabis grown for medical and research purposes may find better markets abroad with the right EU GMP-certified partner.
Read more →Expanding Our Commitment to Global Medical Research
As part of our Global Research Program, JMCC has recently signed agreements to support ground-breaking medical research initiatives in Canada and Jamaica to measure the effects of plant-based…
Read more →JMCC Sponsored Field Hospital Opens in Westmoreland, Jamaica
JMCC Chair and CEO Diane Scott was honoured to participate in the official handing over of a new field hospital in Westmoreland, Jamaica last week. In collaboration with Arc Manufacturing, JMCC…
Read more →Team-Based Approach to Virtual Clinics Reduces Wait Times While Maintaining Quality of Care
A report on a pilot innovative virtual method to deliver specialist medical care in Ontario suggests that “rapid-access virtual care clinics” can dramatically reduce wait times to see a specialist…
Read more →Meet Logistics Pro Huntington Wilkinson: Making Moves for JMCC
Huntington Wilkinson has only travelled so far around North America and the Caribbean, but with over a quarter century of experience in custom brokerage, international shipping and logistics, he…
Read more →JMCC Presents: Frontiers in Medical Cannabis Healthcare
Industry and medical leaders explore new delivery formats and the use of innovative technologies in patient assessment, treatment and monitoring as well as how healthcare specialists and…
Read more →A New Energy Is Blowing Across Jamaica: Harnessing Wind Power’s Potential
Jamaica currently uses fossil fuels, much of it imported, to meet over 90% of its energy needs. However, the island’s reliable year-round northeast trade winds make that renewable energy source a…
Read more →A Better Choice for Patients: Producing Medical Cannabis Sustainably
Producing high-quality medical cannabis products requires significant resources. From cultivating, processing, packaging and shipping, there are many challenges to producing premium medical cannabis…
Read more →JMCC & Organic: A Natural Fit
The most important thing to JMCC as a company is producing high-quality, consistent medical cannabis for patients. With this goal always top of mind, it was a natural next step, after securing GMP…
Read more →JMCC Presents: Frontiers in Medical Cannabis Research
Top medical experts share the research they're relying on now in their clinical practice, a view of what’s coming next and what it means for patients and healthcare professionals.
Read more →Update from JMCC’s Group Chair & CEO
Yes, 2020 was an exceptionally challenging year, even a disastrous one for many. Yet, it was in many ways also JMCC Group’s best year since our founding in 2016, enabling us to begin 2021 as so much…
Read more →Inside View: JMCC’s Journey to EU GMP Certification
The road to GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) certification is a demanding one, filled with incredibly detailed tasks and tight collaboration by teams across all departments. Over the past three…
Read more →Becoming The “Employer of Choice”: JMCC’s Roadmap
From the beginning, JMCC Group’s founders envisioned becoming “an employer of choice” everywhere it operates. Group Chair and CEO Diane Scott is the key driver behind this corporate goal.
Read more →Meet Sativite Pty, JMCC’s New Distribution Partner for Australasia
A high-speed motorcycle crash nearly claimed Michael Cleary's life in 2012.
Read more →JMCC Scientific: Collaborating to Build a World-Class Cannabis-based Medicines Provider
The JMCC Scientific team has moved forward aggressively to operationalize the division after its launch was announced last summer by Group Chair & CEO Diane Scott.
Read more →In Conversation With: JMCC’s In-house Counsel & Jamaican Director
Ashley-Ann Foster’s love of advocacy led her to the law, her ideals to politics, and her curiosity to stints as a prime-time TV host in Jamaica. Such a multi-faceted career might take a lifetime of…
Read more →Why Jamaica?
Our founders explored several options before deciding on Jamaica as JMCC’s centre of operations. Their reasons were many. Jamaica has perhaps the finest growing conditions in the world for medical…
Read more →JMCC Operations Update
Our cultivation and processing build-out continues in Jamaica despite a bit of construction slow-down during the government’s coronavirus-induced declaration of a state of emergency in mid-March.…
Read more →For Customers: From the JMCC Global Sales Team
The coronavirus has been wreaking havoc on a global medical cannabis industry already undergoing restructuring and major transition as well as expanding markets as more countries legalize cannabis…
Read more →JMCC Announces New Chief Scientific Advisor
Carole M. Lindsay, a highly respected member of the Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of the West Indies, has been appointed as JMCC’s Chief…
Read more →Update from JMCC Group Chair & CEO
It’s been some time since we reached out to bring you up to date on JMCC. Please forgive that. But, despite the challenges posed for so many of us by the coronavirus, we’ve had our heads down for the…
Read more →CEO Corner: JMCC’s Public Launch Electrifies Toronto LIFT Expo
After nearly two years of hard, quiet work by the JMCC team, we announced our presence on Canada’s medical cannabis scene with something of a splash at Lift & Co.’s 2018 Cannabis Expo in Toronto May…
Read more →JMCC’s Commitment to Protecting Cannabis Strains and Biodiversity in Jamaica
As mentioned in CEO Diane Scott’s column, JMCC, through its charitable foundation, announced on May 24 that we have signed an agreement with Jamaica’s National Foundation for the Development of…
Read more →JMCC Adds Members to Stellar Executive Team
JMCC added two important new contributors to our executive team earlier this year: Richard Jim Kijewski as Global Head of Security in January, and John O’Neill (left in photo) as Global Head of…
Read more →Cannabis Events: Where We’ve Been in 2018
With so many countries around the world legalizing medical cannabis to varying degrees, (35 is our latest count), it’s an exciting time to be a globally oriented company with the goal of becoming…
Read more →JMCC Supports Clinical Trial for New Treatment for AML
Thousands of people around the globe are afflicted with or die from acute myeloid leukaemia (also referred to as acute myelogenous leukemia or AML) each year. In Canada alone, more than 1,300…
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