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| Apr 5, 2026 |
Louisiana Senators Approve Bill To Allow Medical Marijuana Use In Hospitals For Terminally Ill Patients
A Louisiana Senate panel has advanced a bill to allow patients with terminal and irreversible conditions to use medical marijuana in hospitals. The Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved the legislation, SB 270 from Sen. Katrina Jackson-Andrews (D), with amendments, in a voice vote on Wednesday. |
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| Apr 3, 2026 |
Australia’s Bioxyne signs manufacturing agreement with Aurora Cannabis
Bioxyne Limited (BXN), an Australian life sciences and health products business, through its wholly owned subsidiary Breathe Life Sciences (BLS), announced that it has entered into a manufacturing agreement with Canada’s Aurora Cannabis Inc. Under the agreement, BLS will manufacture pharmaceutical-grade medicinal cannabis products for supply into international markets. The initial products will be medicinal cannabis oils, then expanding into other categories like GMP-manufactured cannabis vapes. The companies have agreed to expand the scope of the manufacturing agreement and the onboarding process for the supply of these additional product lines. |
| Apr 3, 2026 |
“There is more to Portugal's medical cannabis story than recent turbulence”
Germany imported 200 tonnes of medical cannabis in 2025. A portion of that volume arrived from a Portuguese processor whose license had been revoked, offloaded below cost as it got reinstated. The episode drew attention, and conclusions followed. Joao Duarte from PTMC thinks most of those conclusions are wrong. "Eight tons is not even 5% of what Germany consumes in a year," he says. "For that to trigger price dumping, the math simply doesn't work." |
| Apr 3, 2026 |
Hemp’s AI Moment Is Already Here and It’s Bigger Than Cultivation
Artificial intelligence is already reshaping how hemp is grown. What is less obvious and far more important is how it is beginning to reshape how the industry thinks, operates and earns trust. At the 2026 Industrial Hemp International Conference, held in Denver on March 26-27, a panel on AI and the evolution of the hemp industry made that shift clear. What began as a discussion of tools quickly became broader: a conversation about how intelligence, machine-driven and human, will define the next phase of the industry. |
| Apr 3, 2026 |
Trump Proposes To Keep Protecting State Medical Marijuana Laws From Federal Interference While Blocking DC From Legalizing Recreational Sales
President Donald Trump is requesting that Congress continue to protect state medical marijuana programs from federal interference while also maintaining a policy that has blocked local officials in Washington, D.C. from legalizing recreational cannabis sales. |
| Apr 3, 2026 |
Arrests over marijuana use hit record high in Japan
Police arrested a record 6,832 people for marijuana-related cases in 2025, with 70% of them under the age of 29 and increasingly accessing the drug through social media, National Police Agency data showed. The NPA data, released on Thursday, showed the figure more than doubled from 2017, when it was 3,008. Among the 6,800-plus people, 1,373 were 19 years old and younger while 3,633 were in their 20s. |
| Apr 3, 2026 |
Fresh Lawsuit Filed Challenging Michigan’s New Cannabis Tax
Michigan’s legal cannabis sector has launched a second legal challenge against a recently implemented 24% wholesale tax. According to the lawsuit, the levy, which took effect at the start of the year, pushes the overall tax burden on marijuana beyond limits established in the state constitution. Rose Tantraphol, speaking on behalf of the Michigan Cannabis Industry Association, said the system effectively layers one tax on top of another. She explained that the wholesale levy operates similarly to a sales tax, meaning it is applied before the standard 6% retail tax. As a result, customers end up paying tax on top of an already taxed product, a practice commonly referred to as tax pyramiding. |
| Apr 3, 2026 |
Highway 4 reopened following blockade and cannabis raid
Highway 4 through the Potlotek First Nation has reopened following a series of blockades that slowed down traffic Thursday. The RCMP said in a post on social media that as of Friday morning Highway 4 was no longer blocked. |
| Apr 3, 2026 |
Hawaii Senators Push Congress To Federally Legalize Marijuana And Clear Past Convictions
Hawaii senators have approved a pair of resolutions calling on Congress to federally legalize marijuana, support state efforts to clear people’s conviction records and take steps to facilitate access to banking services for companies in the cannabis industry. |
| Apr 3, 2026 |
The Europe Trap: Why U.S. Cannabis Companies Keep Getting It Wrong
Europe is the hottest market around for most US cannabis companies, including the tech companies. They enter Europe expecting a familiar landscape, assuming the multiple countries in the EU market will align with their state-by-state experience back home. And they are nearly always unpleasantly surprised. Investors and developers are consistently making the mistake of treating Europe as “America, but later”. |
| Apr 2, 2026 |
Züri Can Extended By Two Years As Results Point To Black Market Deterrence
Zurich’s municipal parliament has voted to extend its flagship adult-use cannabis pilot, Züri Can, by a further two years to October 2028, and to provide an additional CHF 800,000 in funding, in a 101-13 vote that laid bare the fault lines in Swiss cannabis politics. After applying to extend the ‘Züri Can: Cannabis with Responsibility’ pilot last October, following what officials describe as encouraging early results in reducing illicit sales and improving public-health outcomes, the council held a vote on March 18, 2026. |
| Apr 2, 2026 |
First Nation blocks main highway to Halifax over cannabis crackdown
A First Nation says it is blockading part of a main highway into Halifax to protest police raids against unlicensed cannabis dispensaries in Indigenous communities. |
| Apr 2, 2026 |
How Educational Institutions Are Embracing Legal Marijuana
As the cannabis sector continues to expand, universities and colleges across the U.S. are adjusting their academic offerings to keep pace with a growing need for trained professionals. The industry currently supports an estimated 425,000 full-time positions nationwide. This has prompted higher education institutions to introduce targeted programs that prepare graduates for roles in medical use, product innovation, regulatory compliance, cultivation, and retail operations. |
| Apr 2, 2026 |
Highway blockades persist following cannabis raid in Cape Breton First Nation
There are reports of multiple blockades taking place in Nova Scotia on Thursday afternoon following a cannabis raid in Potlotek. In a post on X, Mounties said Highway 102 near exit 10 is reduced to one lane of traffic due to a protest and people on the roadway, adding that anyone driving in this area is asked to use extreme caution. |
| Apr 2, 2026 |
The UK’s ‘Cannabis Martyr’ Keeps Opening Weed Cafes. Britain Keeps Locking Him Up.
Gary Youds is best known as the UK’s “cannabis martyr.” That’s because he has continually sacrificed himself for the cause of cannabis legalization. He is currently spending his sixth stint in jail for operating an illegal cannabis cafe in Liverpool. |
| Apr 2, 2026 |
Canadians could claim part of $8-million cannabis settlement
Canadians who invested in cannabis stock could cash in on a hefty settlement. Law firm Berger Montague announced the approval of an $8-million settlement in a class-action lawsuit against Canadian cannabis company Wayland Group Corp. (formerly Maricann Group Corp.). It was approved by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on March 19. |
| Apr 2, 2026 |
'None of this existed five years ago': New York's new weed czar seeks market stability
Happy fifth birthday, legal New York weed. The Marihuana Regulation and Taxation Act — which ushered in legal cannabis to the Empire State — passed five years ago Tuesday. |
| Apr 2, 2026 |
The Rise of Minor Cannabinoids: How CBN and THCv Are Becoming Cannabis’s Next Big Trend
For much of the modern cannabis era, product development has centered on two compounds: THC and CBD. But the industry is increasingly turning its attention to a wider group of plant molecules known as minor cannabinoids, including cannabinol (CBN) and tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCv). |
| Apr 2, 2026 |
RCMP officers forced to leave on foot as protesters surround vehicles during cannabis raid
RCMP officers had to leave the scene of a raid on a cannabis store in Cape Breton on Thursday morning after people surrounded police vehicles and blocked access to the highway. RCMP say officers were executing a search warrant at a storefront on Highway 4 in Potlotek First Nation, and when they finished, a group gathered in protest and blocked access to the road. |
| Apr 1, 2026 |
Governor Vetoes Mississippi Bills Granting Expanded Access to Medical Marijuana
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves has vetoed two measures aimed at broadening access to medical cannabis, even as he approved a separate measure to advance research into a psychedelic drug with potential therapeutic uses. |