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| Jun 11, 2025 |
New Czech Bill Will Legalise Cannabis Cultivation and Psychedelic Therapy |
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| Jun 10, 2025 |
Hemp vs cannabis: what’s the real difference you need to know? Cannabis used for therapy and industrial hemp both come from the same species. The main difference lies in their use and their content of psychoactive substances, which can vary depending on the type and growing conditions. |
| Jun 10, 2025 |
Infused pre-rolls ignite California’s marijuana market
Infused pre-rolls are rapidly gaining popularity and reshaping sales trends in the California marijuana market. From Dec. 1, 2024, to Feb. 28, 2025, the California marijuana market generated $1.1 billion in total sales, experiencing a decline of 0.5%, according to a report from pre-roll machine manufacturer RollPros using data from Colorado-based cannabis market research firm BDSA. |
| Jun 9, 2025 |
Marijuana Users Are Nearly 5 Times As Likely To Regularly Exercise Than Eat Fast Food, Stereotype-Busting Survey Shows Marijuana consumers are more than three times more likely to regularly exercise than drink alcohol—and they’re nearly five times more likely to routinely work out than eat fast food—according to another stereotype-defying survey. |
| Jun 8, 2025 |
Why Teen Mom's Jenelle Evans Wants to Normalize Cannabis Use for Moms Teen Mom alum Jenelle Evans is ready to blaze her own trail in the cannabis industry. The mom of three explained to E! News why she wants to "normalize" the practice for her fellow mothers. |
| Jun 5, 2025 |
Powerful new cannabis outstrips dangers of ‘Woodstock pot’ The EU is being flooded with super-strength cannabis that puts users at greater risk of psychosis, the bloc’s drugs monitoring agency has warned. This is outright propaganda. Back in the Woodstock pot days, there was also very potent hash, which was readily available. The potency of pot has increased for the last 20 years or so, ever since it began being growing indoors. This is a ploy to stave off legalization. |
| Jun 3, 2025 |
Manitoba passes bill to ban new convenience store cannabis sales licences In April, the Manitoba government said it was placing a temporary freeze on any new “controlled access” retail cannabis licences for at least six months while the new provincial government looked into the issue more. These licences for retail cannabis stores allow for cannabis to be sold in convenience stores and gas stations that carry other non-cannabis products. |
| Jun 2, 2025 |
Record High: Study Finds Growing Cannabis Use Among Older Adults Marijuana use among older adults in the US has reached a new high, with 7 percent of adults aged 65 and over who report using it in the past month, according to an analysis led by researchers with the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research (CDUHR) at the NYU School of Global Public Health. |
| Jun 2, 2025 |
Canada’s cannabis sector contributes $9.1 billion to GDP in first three months of 2025 The most recent, seasonally adjusted figures from Statistics Canada show that the cannabis industry’s contribution to Canada’s GDP was $9.104 billion in the first three months of 2025. This is an increase from $8.3 billion in 2024. |
| Jun 2, 2025 |
SNDL asks for cannabis production to be removed from Olds property zoning On June 9 at 1 p.m., the Town of Olds' council will hold a public hearing on a proposal to rezone two parcels of land in the southeast industrial park owned by SNDL Inc., formerly known as Sundial Growers Inc. |
| Jun 2, 2025 |
The Cannabis Fight Could Be Headed To Supreme Court A group of cannabis companies looking to overturn the plant’s illicit status at the national level could be on their way to the U.S. Supreme Court. And there is reason for them to be optimistic that at least one justice is willing to take the case. |
| Jun 1, 2025 |
Cannabis stores growth in Canada <img src="http://cannabislink.ca/pics/cannabis_stores_chart.png"> Credit: https://www.wealthsimple.com/ |
| May 31, 2025 |
Worried about weed: should London follow New York and decriminalise cannabis? Almost 25 years after an experiment was ditched to caution rather than arrest those carrying small amounts of the drug, a rethink is on the cards – but the British government remains cautious |
| May 30, 2025 |
Cannabis grow operation in Six Nations sparks concern in community A cannabis grow operation's proximity to Six Nations' downtown and its potential environmental impacts is causing concern with some neighbours. |
| May 29, 2025 |
Thailand set to U-turn on recreational cannabis use Thailand decriminalized cannabis in 2022. However, it did so without a comprehensive law regulating its sale, production or use. Since then, tens of thousands of licensed dispensaries and retailers selling cannabis and cannabis extracts have opened across the country, particularly in tourist hot spots. |
| May 29, 2025 |
Haribo recalls sweets in the Netherlands after traces of cannabis found Space cake, weed cookies and hash brownies may be familiar fare in the Netherlands, but cannabis in bags of children’s candy is not and Haribo has recalled its Happy Cola F!ZZ sweets after traces of the drug were found inside. |
| May 28, 2025 |
DEA Marijuana Hypocrisy On Full Display- Why are U.S. Cannabis Companies Exporting Illegally While MMJ BioPharma Is Stonewalled? "The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is embroiled in a glaring contradiction: While federally compliant medical cannabis researchers like MMJ BioPharma Cultivation remain paralyzed by bureaucratic delays, U.S. recreational cannabis companies are openly exporting products, intellectual property and money to Europe-flouting federal law with no DEA intervention", stated Duane Boise, CEO MMJ. This double standard exposes a system prioritizing corporate profits over scientific progress and public health, undermining the DEA's mandate under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) |
| May 28, 2025 |
Mayor backs report's call for cannabis law reform The possession of small quantities of cannabis for personal use should be decriminalised, a report backed by the London mayor has concluded. |
| May 27, 2025 |
Pennsylvania Lawmaker Offers New Plan to Legalize Adult-Use Cannabis Pennsylvania still has its hat in the ring to legalize adult-use cannabis in 2025. State Sen. Marty Flynn, D-Scranton, asked his colleagues on May 21 to co-sponsor the Keystone Cannabis Act, legislation he plans to introduce in the aftermath of the Senate Law and Justice Committee rejecting a partisan House legalization bill the previous week. |
| May 27, 2025 |
Entourage Health Launches Medical Cannabis Coverage with International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Entourage Health Corp. ("Entourage" or the "Company"), a Canadian producer and distributor of award-winning cannabis products, is pleased to announce its medical subsidiary Starseed Medicinal ("Starseed") has added the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 353 ("IBEW 353") to its full-service medical cannabis program. |