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Portugal: CannPrisma recovers all licenses from Infarmed.
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CannPrisma has today regained all licenses from Infarmed — the National Authority for Medicines and Health Products IP — to operate with medicinal cannabis: Cultivation, Manufacturing, Import, Export and Distribution. The news was confirmed this morning to CannaReporter® by Elsa Pereira, the company's current CEO.
“Infarmed has fully reinstated all of CannPrisma’s operating licenses — a step that concludes the temporary suspension process and confirms the authorities’ confidence in our rigor, allowing us to resume cultivation, manufacturing, import, export and distribution, with a commitment to continuous improvement. We thank our employees, customers and partners for their trust, whose resilience and professionalism were essential during this period,” Elsa Pereira wrote to CannaReporter®.
In a LinkedIn post, CannPrisma celebrated "the complete resolution of the temporary administrative suspension process," which had begun at the end of July 2025. During these long four and a half months of suspension, CannPrisma faced several challenges, including the loss of clients and the dismissal of dozens of employees.
"This result reaffirms the confidence of regulatory authorities in our compliance standards and operational integrity," says CannPrisma.
The new operational phase includes:
– To strengthen trust with our international clients and partners.
– To resume industrial planning and pharmaceutical production with stability.
– Ensure full alignment with best compliance practices.
– To contribute to the sustainable development of the medicinal cannabis industry in Portugal.
Similar to other companies, such as Herdade das Barrocas (which also had its license suspended in July and...) recovered about two weeks agoCannPrisma found itself involved in Operation Weed, by the Judicial Police, which began in May of this year and has not yet concluded.
Several medicinal cannabis companies are directly or indirectly involved in this operation by the Judicial Police, but the process remains under judicial secrecy and the information available about what actually happened is very scarce.
“Cannprisma continues to be one of the vertically integrated and EU-GMP certified cannabis operators in Portugal, maintaining our commitment to the highest standards of quality, compliance and transparency that define our operations. We thank our partners, customers and employees for their continued trust throughout this process. Operations are resuming immediately at full capacity,” the company concludes in its LinkedIn post.
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[Disclaimer: Please note that this text was originally written in Portuguese and is translated into English and other languages using an automatic translator. Some words may differ from the original and typos or errors may occur in other languages.]____________________________________________________________________________________________________
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With a degree in Journalism from the University of Coimbra, Laura Ramos has a postgraduate degree in Photography and has been a Journalist since 1998. Winner of the Business of Cannabis Awards in the category "Journalist of the Year 2024", Laura was a correspondent for Jornal de Notícias in Rome, Italy, and Press Officer in the Office of the Minister of Education of the 21st Portuguese Government. She has an international certification in Permaculture (PDC) and created the street-art photography archive “Say What? Lisbon” @saywhatlisbon. Co-founder and Editor of CannaReporter® and coordinator of PTMC - Portugal Medical Cannabis, Laura directed the documentary “Pacientes” and was part of the steering group of the first Postgraduate Course in GxP's for Medicinal Cannabis in Portugal, in partnership with the Military Laboratory and the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon.
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