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| Jun 17, 2025 |
Aurora Cannabis Faces Class Action Over Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome Risk
Aurora Cannabis is facing a class action led by a Canadian military veteran, who alleges that the company didn’t adequately warn consumers about Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome (CHS), a condition the plaintiff says was caused by its products. |
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| Jun 17, 2025 |
Cannabis use linked to a doubled risk of heart disease death, new study finds With growing marijuana use across the country, studies have looked at the link between cannabis use and cardiovascular problems — but new research is showing the magnitude of such risk There seems to be so much negative press around cannabis lately with the USA thinking of the possibility of legalizing it federally. It's hard to say what is propaganda and what is truth. |
| Jun 15, 2025 |
Why Las Vegas Casinos Won’t Gamble On Cannabis Tourism on The Strip is down this year, but weed isn't the salvation. Here's why allowing consumption lounges and other 420-friendly activities in the top casinos would put them at risk to lose everything. |
| Jun 15, 2025 |
US Senator, Congresswoman Call on Trump to End ‘Costly Marijuana Arrests’ A pair of Democrats on Capitol Hill called B.S. on Elon Musk’s promised federal spending cuts and instead offered another plan to President Donald Trump on June 11 that includes cannabis reform. |
| Jun 13, 2025 |
Tilray Brands' Stockholders Approve Reverse Stock Split; Company Pauses Implementation as It Evaluates Timing and Stock Price Tilray Brands, Inc. (“Tilray” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: TLRY; TSX: TLRY), a global lifestyle and consumer packaged goods company at the forefront of the beverage, cannabis and wellness industries, today announced that the vote for an amendment of the Company’s Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, in order to implement a reverse stock split of the Company’s common stock at a ratio ranging from 1-to-10 to 1-to-20 (the “Reverse Stock Split”), passed at the special meeting of stockholders. The Company also announced a pause on the implementation of the newly-authorized reverse stock split while further exploring all options related to timing of the reverse split as it evaluates timing and stock price. |
| Jun 13, 2025 |
Court Ruling Against German Online Cannabis Clinic Signals Looming Crackdown Since the partial legalisation of cannabis in Germany, its status as a medicinal product has also changed significantly. Before the implementation of CanG last April, it remained difficult to find a doctor willing to support cannabis therapy, given the burdensome documentation required. However, it has now become relatively easy to access medicinal cannabis for a wide range of conditions following the removal of cannabis from the list of narcotic substances. |
| Jun 13, 2025 |
Facebook And Instagram Seem To Have Stopped Censoring Search Results For ‘Marijuana’ And ‘Cannabis’ Meta—the social media juggernaut behind Facebook, Instagram and Threads—appears to have rolled back a restriction on searches for words like “marijuana” and “cannabis” after criticism that the company’s censorship was overbroad and limited access to education, public health information and political advocacy. |
| Jun 13, 2025 |
Newsom administration moves to permanently ban hemp THC in California California wants to permanently ban hemp THC from the state, making it illegal to sell hemp drinks and potentially costing the state more than 18,000 jobs and billions of dollars in lost revenue. |
| Jun 12, 2025 |
How the cannabis industry benefits small-town Canada As Canada grapples with US tariffs and widespread layoffs, cannabis is emerging as an industry that could help smaller communities weather the storm. |
| Jun 11, 2025 |
Could Australia Be the Next Country to Impose Tariffs on Canadian Cannabis?
Australia’s medical cannabis market is thriving, with revenues expected to grow from around US$600m in 2024 to more than US$1.2bn by 2028, according to Prohibition Partners’ Global Cannabis Report: 5th Edition. |
| Jun 11, 2025 |
New Czech Bill Will Legalise Cannabis Cultivation and Psychedelic Therapy |
| Jun 10, 2025 |
What Canada’s Legal Cannabis Market Can Teach U.S. Producers and Policy Makers Close to seven years after cannabis was legalized for recreational use in Canada, many lessons of what went right and wrong north of the border offers a range of lessons for American cannabis producers and policy makers. |
| 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 and oils, 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. |