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Jul 2, 2026	House Passes Youth Safety Bill That Could Complicate Marijuana Businesses’ Online Outreach The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill aimed at protecting children online that could create complications for advertisers trying to promote legal marijuana and other regulated substances. Lawmakers voted 267-117 on Monday to approve the Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act, sponsored by Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY).
Jul 2, 2026	Comparing the Legal U.S. And European Cannabis Markets When it comes to the emerging legal cannabis industry, the United States and European markets clearly stand out. Both regions are experiencing significant policy and regulatory modernizations, and along with them, industry opportunities for entrepreneurs, investors and industry service providers.
Jul 2, 2026	Experts say THC percentage is the wrong way to shop for cannabis Experts in cannabis science, genetics, and regulation say that THC percentage is a poor and often misleading guide for shopping cannabis products, and that the industry's fixation on potency numbers is holding consumers and dispensaries back.
Jul 2, 2026	Cannabis drinks overtake beer at U.S. cookouts, for now Americans are increasingly reaching for canned cannabis drinks instead of beer this summer, a shift that could be short-lived once a new federal law takes effect later this year. THC-infused beverages, once found only in specialty shops, now sit on shelves at mainstream supermarkets across the United States. The drinks contain tetrahydrocannabinol, the compound responsible for marijuana's intoxicating effects, but no alcohol.
Jul 1, 2026	Switzerland Launches Eighth Cannabis Pilot, Testing Home Delivery for the First Time Switzerland has granted approval for a new five-year, 5000-participant adult-use cannabis pilot trial, marking the eighth since the groundbreaking project began in 2023. Announced on June 16 by the Swiss Cannabis Research Association, CanLeg will take place in the Canton of St. Gallen, and will be the first pilot to test the home delivery of cannabis products to consumers. It will also mark the second pilot project to be run by the organisation, having launched the country’s largest study so far, Cannabis Research Zürich, in 2024.
Jul 1, 2026	Guam Issues First Cannabis Cultivation Permit 7 Years After Legalizing Guam cannabis regulators have approved the territory’s first-ever cannabis permit to operate, seven years after adult-use cannabis was legalized on the island, the Pacific Daily News reports. The Cannabis Control Board unanimously approved the operating permit for Guam’s Real Deal LLC, which does business as Deep Green Guam, during its regular meeting on Wednesday. The company holds a Type IV cultivator license, allowing it to grow cannabis in an operation of up to 10,000 square feet.
Jul 1, 2026	Bosnia and Herzegovina Continues to Roll Out Medical Cannabis Following Its Legalization Four months after the adoption by the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Following the legalization of medical cannabis, authorities are now working to develop the regulatory framework needed to make cannabis-based medications available to patients at pharmacies.
Jul 1, 2026	New Hemp-Derived Beverages Include Tiny Amount of THC BLNCD Naturals and Foundry Nation today announced a new collection of cannabis beverages that include a relatively tiny amount of hemp-derived THC. The company said that by pairing THC with minor cannabinoids, terpenes, adaptogens, and other functional ingredients, the new beverages were designed to deliver an elevated experience.
Jun 30, 2026	Winnipeg police officer convicted of stealing cannabis from scene 'betrayed' trust: judge A veteran Winnipeg police officer who proclaimed his innocence during a trial and said he hoped to return to his job has been convicted of stealing cannabis from a drug scene alongside a now-disgraced constable he was partnered with in 2022.
Jun 30, 2026	Historic U.S. Cannabis Rescheduling Hearing Begins In December 2025, United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for, among other things, expediting the process to reschedule cannabis from its current status as a Schedule I substance at the federal level to Schedule III. The executive order marked the most significant federal cannabis policy change since the enactment of the Controlled Substances Act over 50 years ago.
Jun 30, 2026	Pennsylvania Democratic Senators Put Pressure On GOP To Allow A Vote On Legalizing Marijuana Every Pennsylvania Democratic senator is joining together in support of a procedural move that aims to increase pressure on Republicans to allow a vote on legalizing marijuana in the state. Led by Sen. Sharif Street (D), the lawmakers filed what is known as a discharge resolution that seeks to bring a bipartisan cannabis legalization bill out of committee, where it is stuck, and onto the floor for a vote.
Jun 30, 2026	The DEA Begins Hearings on the Federal Rescheduling of Cannabis The hearings of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) American report on the federal reclassification of the Cannabis officially began on June 29. These hearings, which will continue until July 15, must determine whether the agency should finalize the proposal to legalize cannabis, which is currently prohibited at the federal level, the Schedule I to the Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
Jun 30, 2026	Marijuana Leads To ‘Robust Improvements’ In Lower Back Pain And ‘Near-Total’ Cessation Of Opioids, Study Finds People with chronic lower back pain who don’t respond to traditional therapies such as opioids experience “large, sustained, and statistically robust improvements” when they switch to inhaled cannabis, according to a new study. Researchers at Rabin Medical Center in Israel looked at longitudinal data from 241 patients with treatment-resistant lower back pain from 2020 to 2025.
Jun 30, 2026	Jamaican woman fined in Barbados after pleading guilty to cannabis charges A 63-year-old Jamaican woman has been fined BDS$21,000 after pleading guilty to multiple cannabis-related offences in Barbados. The Barbados Police Service (TBPS) said Doreen Veronica King of #2 Wavel Ave, Kingston, was arrested and formally charged by its Narcotics Unit following offences allegedly committed on June 27. King was charged with possession of cannabis, possession with intent to supply, trafficking and importation of cannabis.
Jun 30, 2026	Cannabis Consumers Are Way More Likely To Dine At Restaurants That Offer THC Drinks As An Alcohol Alternative, Poll Shows A new poll of marijuana consumers shows they are overwhelmingly more likely to want to dine at restaurants that offer cannabis-derived THC drinks as an alternative to alcohol. The new survey, conducted by cannabis telehealth platform NuggMD, found that 54 percent of people who use marijuana and live in state-legal markets would be much more likely to visit a local restaurant that offered THC beverages.
Jun 30, 2026	German state authority says cannabis flower must be dried where it's grown, tightening the screws on EU GMP washing Cannabis flower released as medicine in Hesse must be dried and trimmed at the place the plants are harvested, the Hessian State Office for Health and Care says in a June 8 guidance letter, unless a producer can prove beyond doubt that skipping or splitting the drying causes no loss of quality.
Jun 30, 2026	‘Nobody’s going first’: Cannabis cafes bleeding cash waiting to open, six months after regulations passed Amsterdam-style cannabis lounges are still coming to Massachusetts — just much slower than many business owners expected. It’s been six months since the Cannabis Control Commission approved regulations for these businesses. Yet almost no towns have passed zoning changes for the ventures to move forward — and the commission has not opened the licenses up for applications. Both municipalities and the commission say they’re waiting for the other to move forward.
Jun 29, 2026	Lawmakers reintroduce cannabis banking reform A bipartisan group of senators and congressmen has reintroduced cannabis banking reform legislation, following the federal reclassification of medical cannabis from a Schedule I to Schedule III drug.
Jun 29, 2026	Nebraska Allows Grower to Start Medical Cannabis Cultivation Nebraska cannabis regulators have approved the first licensed cultivation company to begin growing cannabis nearly 19 months after state voters endorsed legalization for medical use. During a meeting on Monday, members of the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission unanimously confirmed that MahaMota Cultivation Company had successfully completed its inspection process, clearing the way for the company to grow the state’s first legal medical cannabis crop.
Jun 29, 2026	Thailand Threatens Cannabis Shops with Severe Penalties Thailand continues to shape its regulations on the Cannabis, with in fine a strictly regulated medical cannabis model. The Department of Traditional and Alternative Thai Medicine (DTAM) recently issued new enforcement guidelines establishing stricter penalties for companies that fail to comply with the 2025 national regulations governing cannabis as a controlled substance.

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