A Missed Opportunity In Victoria, Australia
Cannabis advocates inside and outside the Australian state of Victoria were hopeful that local voters would get a chance to decide on a...
Yale University: Full U.S. Cannabis Legalization Would Generate $111 Billion Over 10 Years
Currently, 24 states in the U.S. have adopted adult-use cannabis legalization measures, with legal recreational sales occurring in almost...
Survey Finds Doctors In Greece View Medical Cannabis Favorably
Greece originally approved its modernized medical cannabis law in 2017. However, it wasn’t until February 2024 that suffering...
Does Cannabis Legalization Reduce Food Insecurity Rates?
Adult-use cannabis legalization is a sensible approach to cannabis public policy that yields many direct benefits to society. For...
Canada Is Investing $24 Million To Research Cannabis And Brain Health
Canada’s government, through the Minister of Health, Marjorie Michel, announced a $24 million investment through the Canadian...
Australian State Considers Letting Voters Decide On Cannabis Legalization
Voters in the Australian State of Victoria may get a chance to decide on a non-binding adult-use cannabis legalization proposal. The...
Women More Likely To Substitute Cannabis For Antidepressants Post-Legalization
According to Canadian researchers affiliated with various health and academic institutions, women are more likely to report substituting...
Study Highlights Cannabis Consumer Perspectives In U.S. Markets
The Parabola Center for Law and Policy, a nonprofit of legal, public health, and policy professionals who focus on emerging industries,...
Nepal’s Gandaki Province Legalizes Medical Cannabis Farming
The Gandaki provincial government in Nepal approved a medical cannabis farming legalization measure this week, with the bill taking...
Cannabis To Be Sold At New York Farmers Markets And Events
New York State holds a very important economic, public policy, and media market status not only in the United States but also...
Uruguay Adjusts Prices For Legal Adult-Use Cannabis
Starting on August 1st, 2026, prices for legal adult-use cannabis sold in Uruguay’s pharmacies are increasing, albeit only...
How Many German Patients Are Impacted By Cannabis Flower Changes?
On July 30th, 2026, a ban in Germany on reimbursement for cannabis flowers under the Statutory Health Insurance Stabilization Act came...
Cannabis Addiction Treatment Admissions Decline In Germany
The rate of people in Germany seeking cannabis use disorder-related outpatient addiction care declined following the adoption of the...
German Study Debunks Anti-Legalization Propaganda
In the lead-up to the adoption of Germany’s historic CanG measure in April 2024 by national lawmakers, cannabis opponents in...
German Cannabis Organization Announces Constitutional Complaint
Earlier this month, German lawmakers approved the Statutory Health Insurance Contribution Stabilisation Act (BStabG). The measure...
German Regulators Approved Four Cannabis Research Projects
Officials from Germany’s Federal Office for Agriculture and Food confirmed that it had approved at least four cannabis research...
Kenya’s High Court Dismisses Cannabis Petition
Cannabis public policy reform can be achieved in multiple ways. In some jurisdictions, citizens can gather a required number of...
Survey Finds German Patients Wait Years Before Trying Cannabis
Researchers estimate that Germany has roughly 1 million legal medical cannabis patients, with even more suffering patients turning to...
Survey Highlights How Far U.S. Medical Cannabis Has Advanced
The cannabis plant has always possessed medical benefits. It is why the father of Chinese medicine, Emperor Shen Neng, listed cannabis in...
Nepal Province Unanimously Approves Medical Cannabis Measure
In recent days, lawmakers in the Gandaki Province Assembly unanimously approved a measure that legalizes cannabis cultivation for medical...
German Lawmakers Make The Wrong Move On Medical Cannabis Coverage
In unfortunate news out of Germany today, lawmakers approved the Statutory Health Insurance Contribution Stabilisation Act (BStabG). The...
Medical Cannabis Production Measure Introduced In South Korea
Under current South Korean law, safe access to medical cannabis is very limited. Suffering patients can only obtain legally imported...
Malta Has Europe’s Lowest Cannabis Usage Rate For Young People
One of the most common claims made by cannabis opponents leading up to legalization is that usage rates among young people will spike. It...
U.N. Drug Report Highlights How Ineffective Cannabis Prohibition Is
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) recently released its World Drug Report 2026, finding that an estimated 256 million...
France Submits Long-Awaited Medical Cannabis Decree
After a long wait and significant anticipation, an official decree pertaining to how the reimbursement of medical cannabis will be...
Major Cannabis Industry Court Decisions In Germany
Germany continues to be one of the most interesting markets on the planet for cannabis commerce and policy. Germany is the largest legal...
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...
Arbitrary Hemp THC Limits Will Always Create Issues
The distinction between hemp and non-hemp cannabis plants was not created by nature. Rather, it was created by governments around the...
Educating Policymakers To Achieve Meaningful Cannabis Policy Changes
Successfully advocating and lobbying for meaningful cannabis policy modernizations is not an easy task, as any seasoned cannabis activist...
Thailand Issues New Cannabis Enforcement Guidelines
One of the most closely watched cannabis markets on the planet in recent years is Thailand. The Southeast Asian country’s emerging...
Uruguay Considers Integrating Medical Cannabis Into Healthcare System
A common trend in markets that first legalized medical cannabis and then later legalized cannabis for adult use is that suffering...
French Medical Cannabis Experiment Yields “Positive” Effects
According to the results of an analysis that were published this week by Inserm and the University of Bordeaux, France’s medical...
German Advocates: Cannabis Flowers Are Necessary For Medical Care
Medical cannabis advocates are continuing to push back against draft legislation in Germany that would eliminate statutory health...
First Ukraine Patients Receive Legal Medical Cannabis Products
Ukraine’s medical cannabis legalization law took effect in August 2024, with Ukraine’s Parliament having initially approved the...
St. Gallen To Launch Swiss Cannabis Pilot Trial
For at least five years, over 3,000 adult cannabis consumers will participate in a regional adult-use cannabis commerce pilot trial in...
Canada’s Role In The Global Cannabis Market
Canada became the first G-7 nation to adopt a national adult-use cannabis legalization measure in 2018. Over seven years after Canada...
The Globalization Of Medical Cannabis
Medical cannabis production and commerce are legal in more jurisdictions now than at any other time since the dawn of cannabis...
Which European Country Has The Most Cannabis Consumers?
The European continent is in the midst of a cannabis policy modernization revolution, with Europe now being home to more countries that...
Spain Rules Out Adult-Use Cannabis Legalization For Now
Spain is home to one of the most vibrant and established cannabis communities on the planet. With the European continent now being home...
Nepal MP Urges Government To Modernize Cannabis Policies
During the Shivaratri festival in Nepal, one of the nation’s largest annual Hindu festivals, it is common for people to be seen...
Lawsuit Filed Against Bavaria For Preventing Cultivation Associations
Earlier today, CSC Inntal eV filed a lawsuit against the Bavarian government after its building permit was denied. CSC Inntal eV was one...
Cannabis Legalization Debate Continues In Argentina
Cannabis legalization is reportedly being debated in Argentina, although the chances of the legalization proposal making it to the finish...
What Is The THC Limit For Hemp In Brazil?
A collection of experts in Brazil is urging the nation’s government to increase the legal threshold for tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)...
Nigeria’s National Assembly Is Drafting A Cannabis Reform Bill
The African continent is home to an increasing interest by national governments in modernizing cannabis laws and regulations to permit...
Legalizing German Adult-Use Cannabis Sales Could Generate €4.7 Billion
The German Cannabis Business Association (BvCW) has published a new position paper titled ‘Combating Organized Crime –...
Cannabis Pilot Projects Receive A Boost In Germany
The German Cannabis Business Association (BvCW) issued a press release this week expressing support for recent comments that Federal Drug...
Recent Changes In International Cannabis Policy
Cannabis laws and regulations are being modernized in many parts of the world, with more governments pursuing and implementing sensible...
Identifying Opportunities In Newer Cannabis Markets
National governments are considering cannabis policy and industry regulatory modernization proposals at an increasing rate all over the...
Legal Adult-Use Cannabis Sales Are Overdue In Virginia
As a longtime cannabis public policy activist who has helped with efforts in both the United States and Europe, one of my favorite...
Deputy Minister: South Africa Is Committed To Supporting Cannabis Industry Growth
South Africa is continuing its push to advance its emerging domestic legal cannabis industry, as evidenced by a recent visit by Deputy...