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Jun 24, 2026	Deep Green Guam receives island's first cannabis establishment operating permit Guam's Cannabis Control Board has approved its first permit to operate a cannabis establishment, granting unanimous approval to Guam Real Deal LLC, doing business as Deep Green Guam, on Wednesday, nearly seven years after the island legalized recreational adult-use marijuana in 2019. Revenue and Taxation Department director and board vice chair Marie Lizama says the permit represents the furthest any applicant has advanced since the board began accepting applications in 2022. Lizama says, "It's probably one of the harder hurdles to overcome."
Jun 24, 2026	Cannabis Inherits Its Future: Part 1, The Genetic Legacy Loop Cannabis is being asked to do two jobs at once, and the genetics that win one don’t necessarily win the other. As a recreational flower, it is judged on cultivar name, flavour, and other craft-flower aesthetics. As a regulated medicine, it has to deliver chemotype consistency, batch reproducibility, and a pharmacopoeial-grade monograph. The gene pool the modern industry inherited was bred almost entirely for the first job. It is being asked, now, to deliver the second.
Jun 23, 2026	How Countries Legalise Cannabis Matters More Than Whether They Do, Lancet Review Finds Thirteen years ago, Uruguay became the first country on the planet to officially legalise cannabis for recreational (adult-use) purposes. In December 2013, state-controlled cannabis retail sales, home cultivation, and social clubs were fully legalised by President José Mujica.
Jun 23, 2026	Uruguay Wants to Integrate Medical Cannabis into Its Healthcare System Uruguay was the first country in the world to establish a legal framework for the entire cannabis industry. Yet, ten years later, medical cannabis still has not found its place in the healthcare system. Its exclusion from the Therapeutic Drug Formulary limits access to it, while the lack of training among healthcare professionals and the cost of treatment are hindering its development.
Jun 23, 2026	Alberta’s Cannabis Event Model Is Leading the Industry Not long ago, buying legal cannabis at a music festival in Canada was unthinkable. Today in Alberta, you can walk into a dedicated consumption space at a major outdoor event, browse a curated product menu, and spark up legally, all without leaving the grounds. The province has become the most progressive jurisdiction in the country when it comes to cannabis at public events, and the people who built that landscape say it has outperformed even their most optimistic projections. The question now isn’t whether the model works; it’s what comes next.
Jun 22, 2026	Homegrown Weed vs Dispensary: What Growing My Own Taught Me About Buying Bud The whole homegrown weed vs dispensary question never crossed my mind until I started growing my own. I’m not some legacy cultivator with a sealed tent and a spreadsheet of feeding schedules. I grow flowers. I grow vegetables. I’ve spent years babying tomatoes and marigolds, so this spring I figured it was time to branch out. Before I get into it, home cultivation laws vary by state. Some allow adults to grow a small number of plants for personal use. Others prohibit it entirely. Check your state’s rules before you plant anything. What’s legal where I am may not be where you are.
Jun 22, 2026	Cannabis producers give up trying to get Ottawa to stop smothering their business The Cannabis Council of Canada has announced it is suspending its advocacy operation, apparently because its member companies have given up hope that the federal government is prepared to listen to them. In a letter to Finance Minister François Philippe Champagne that foreshadowed this week’s announcement, outgoing council president Paul McCarthy said the country’s licensed cannabis producers have lost confidence that the government is committed to getting its tax and regulatory policies right.
Jun 22, 2026	Federal Cannabis Rescheduling 101 As the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) gears up for this month’s administrative hearing on the fate of federal marijuana legalization, we sat down with UNLV Cannabis Policy Institute (CPI) director Riana Durrett for the rundown on decades of debate surrounding the plant — and what giving the green light could mean for businesses, tourists, and residents in Las Vegas, the Silver State, and beyond.
Jun 22, 2026	Virginia Lawmakers Approve Bill To Legalize Recreational Marijuana Sales Virginia lawmakers have approved legislation to legalize recreational marijuana sales that was recently negotiated with the governor following her veto of an earlier proposal to enact the reform.
Jun 22, 2026	Is the US Hemp Ban Punishing the Wrong People? Uncertainty isn’t what hemp needs right now. Just as the market for legal hemp-derived cannabinoids is maturing, peer-reviewed research is flourishing, and serious brands are raising the bar, the upcoming federal ban threatens to kill the industry’s momentum. After the midnight passage of a policy rewrite that would eliminate 95% of the current market, we’re facing down the barrel of an entirely new landscape within six months. Worse, the vast majority of operators, farmers, and consumers are doing the right thing but finding themselves in the crosshairs of prohibition. This change punishes the wrong people and threatens to undo almost a decade of hemp progress.
Jun 22, 2026	Congressional Amendment Would Expand Marijuana Waivers For Military Recruits Who Test Positive For THC A Republican member of Congress has filed an amendment that would expand waivers for military recruits who’ve tested positive for marijuana. The amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) filed by Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH) acknowledges that the Army and Navy have already “taken positive steps in their work to design and implement a waiver system that permits potential enlistees into the Armed Forces to reapply for enlistment following a positive toxicology test for tetrahydrocannabinol.”
Jun 22, 2026	DaySavers Launches Perfect Pack 2 Portable Joint-Filling Machine to Create Perfect Pre-Rolls On the Go RENTON, Wash., June 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- DaySavers, the most innovative and transparent smoking accessories brand on the market from Custom Cones USA, today launched the latest model of their signature joint-filling machine, the Perfect Pack 2, a personal, made-for cannabis cone- and tube-filling machine that can perfectly pack a pre-roll in seconds from anywhere, thanks to a new battery mode and USB-C cable that works with power banks and even smartphones.
Jun 21, 2026	Cannabis Council of Canada Ends Active Operations The Cannabis Council of Canada (C3) is suspending its active operations as of June 22, 2026. In a press release, the organization says the board will now take time to consider the Council’s future and the role it can continue to play in advancing the sector’s policy priorities. The decision, says President Paul McCarthy, reflects the headwinds facing Canada’s licensed cannabis sector. “The Council is proud of the role it has played in advocating for a responsible, competitive, and sustainable legal cannabis industry in Canada,” read the organization’s farewell press release. “While it will not be operating in the same active capacity during this period, its work, records, and institutional knowledge will be preserved so that the progress made is not lost.
Jun 21, 2026	Cannabis Doesn’t Distort Reality. It Shows You the Director’s Cut. David Lenson, in On Drugs, isolates with rare philosophical precision a feature of cannabis consciousness that transcends the usual cliches about intoxication. He writes: “The cannabis user wants to take control of his or her consciousness, and what it contains at any given moment. The 1965 phrase of dismissal ‘Get out of my movie!’ expresses this heightened stewardship of internal life. What offends must be avoided, and what pleases can be enjoyed instant by instant with contemplative exactitude.”
Jun 21, 2026	Cannabis in Oncology Nursing: Reducing Polypharmacy and Managing Symptoms At the OneOncology APP Symposium, Morvarid Rezaie, DO, HMDC, FACOI, a palliative care physician at The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, addressed a key challenge for oncology nurses: managing the complex symptom burden of cancer patients while minimizing polypharmacy. In an interview with Oncology Nursing News, Rezaie explained how medical cannabis serves as a multimodal tool that can simplify care plans and improve patient outcomes.
Jun 21, 2026	How to Buy Weed in Las Vegas: Dispensaries, Strip Rules, and What Every Tourist Needs to Know Getting Las Vegas cannabis rules wrong can mean fines, buying from fake “hemp shops,” or missing the city’s legal cannabis scene entirely. Nevada runs a substantial regulated market, and tourists can buy with nothing more than a valid ID. The smart move is not avoiding cannabis altogether. It is understanding exactly where, when, and how to buy and consume legally as a visitor.
Jun 20, 2026	The Cannabis Debate Is Not Just About Legalization Anymore, It’s About Who Benefits Generations of activists have protested against cannabis prohibition, taking to the streets in cities around the world to lobby for legalization. But a major global review published this week, suggests this once-controversial conversation is no longer a question of whether cannabis should be regulated, but how— and what comes next.
Jun 20, 2026	Vermont Governor Signs Bill To Double Legal Marijuana Possession Limit And Allow Interstate Commerce Vermont’s governor has signed legislation that will allow adults over the age of 21 to legally possess twice as much marijuana as they could previously, enable interstate cannabis commerce and make other changes to rules for licensed businesses. Gov. Phil Scott (R) on Friday announced that he approved the large-scale cannabis regulatory reform bill, S. 278, which passed both chambers of the legislature last month.
Jun 20, 2026	Regulated, Untamed, and Built to Last: Inside Montana Cannabis How Montana built a legal cannabis market from a thin medical marijuana law, federal raids, ballot fights, and two decades of stubborn local pressure.
Jun 19, 2026	DEA Judge Issues Order Laying Out Process For Marijuana Rescheduling Hearing Starting This Month A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) judge has issued an initial order laying out basic rules for a hearing about the Trump administration’s cannabis rescheduling process that is set to start later this month. Chief Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Derek Julius signed the 12-page order on Thursday, setting initial timelines for designated parties that will be participating—which under a separate announcement from DEA this week only includes opponents of cannabis reform.

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