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Sep 2, 2026	What’s in Store for the Global Cannabis Industry in 2026? Mid-Year Update In December 2025, we asked our in-house team of experts how they expected to see the industry evolve over the coming year. Following a frantic news cycle over the past eight months, we wanted to revisit these predictions and examine what has come to fruition, what regulation is stuck in political limbo, and what developments have come out of left field. Key pieces of legislation in major global markets, including Germany, the UK, and Australia, are yet to be fully clarified, published or enforced. Each of these could yet have a transformative impact on their respective markets, shaping or curbing the telemedicine prescribing phenomenon which we cited as the engine of growth throughout 2025.
Sep 2, 2026	Aurora Cannabis urges shareholders to reject hostile takeover offer by Curaleaf Aurora Cannabis Inc. is urging its shareholders to reject a hostile takeover bid by Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. The company says the unsolicited bid by Curaleaf undervalues Aurora and is not in the best interests of shareholders. Aurora says it is debt free and has about C$149 million in cash, while Curaleaf has over C$1 billion in debt and would gain control over its cash without paying fairly.
Sep 1, 2026	Why Medical Marijuana Is Secretly Saving Companies Millions in Lost Productivity A new study reveals medical cannabis access drops health-related work absences by 6.9 percent, especially in physically demanding industries like manufacturing.
Sep 1, 2026	The Old Farmer’s Almanac Embraces Cannabis From Farm Staple to Backyard Crop: The Old Farmer’s Almanac’s Cannabis Growing Guide Shows How Marijuana Has Gone Mainstream If you want to know how deeply cannabis has moved into the American mainstream, you could look at dispensary sales, legalization maps or the growing number of states allowing recreational marijuana. Or you could look somewhere much more unexpected: A middle American staple, the old Farmer’s Almanac embraces cannabis just like roses, turnips, carrots or corn. Published continuously since 1792, when George Washington was president, the Old Farmer’s Almanac is the oldest continuously published periodical in North America. For generations, it has been a staple in farmhouses, kitchens, garden sheds and suburban homes, offering planting calendars, gardening advice, recipes, astronomical information and, of course, its famously scrutinized long-range weather forecasts. Its audience has expanded well beyond farmers, but its roots remain firmly planted in practical advice for people who want to grow things.
Sep 1, 2026	House Passes Bill To Delay Hemp THC Product Ban, Sending It To Trump’s Desk The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that contains provisions to delay the federal recriminalization of hemp THC products that is currently scheduled to take effect in November. The legislation, which has already been approved by the Senate, is intended to give lawmakers more time to craft regulations as an alternative to prohibition. It now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk.
Sep 1, 2026	DEA Makes Its Final Case for Cannabis Rescheduling as Full Hearing Transcripts Published As Chief Administrative Law Judge Derek Julius weighs his recommendation on moving cannabis to Schedule III, the DEA’s own closing brief attacks nearly every witness who opposed it — bar one scientist inside its own ranks. With the full 2,533-page hearing transcript now publicly available, alongside both sides’ final written arguments, we now have the clearest picture yet of the cases made by each party, and more importantly, which held legitimate weight likely to influence the final recommendation.
Sep 1, 2026	THC from silver? Scientists find surprising way to produce cannabinoids A lot must happen for a cannabis plant to create compounds like THC and CBD. A cannabis plant’s life cycle lasts several months, and how much THC or CBD ultimately shows up can vary. Scientists are exploring ways to produce cannabinoids at scale without growing entire cannabis plants, potentially offering an alternative to conventional cultivation. Now, researchers are looking at silver as an option. According to a paper published in BMC Biotechnology, researchers successfully produced small concentrations of THC and CBD from cannabis callus cultures using silver nanoparticles.
Sep 1, 2026	Costa Rica opens first medical cannabis manufacturing laboratory Vantage Point Global opened a manufacturing laboratory in El Guarco, Cartago, on Friday, August 28, marking what the company calls Costa Rica's first facility dedicated to manufacturing medical cannabis products such as oils, concentrates, syrups, and tablets. Previously, the company's local operation, Hybrida Farms, mainly grew cannabis for export as raw material; the new lab allows more processing to happen domestically rather than shipping crops abroad. The company plans to manufacture finished products for export to Germany, Switzerland, and the UK, and hopes to eventually sell in Costa Rica once regulations permit domestic registration, still a major industry obstacle. Costa Rica legalized medical and therapeutic cannabis in 2022 under Law 10,113, which also allows hemp for food and industrial use, but regulatory gaps continue to hinder domestic sales of finished products.
Sep 1, 2026	How Cannabis Legalization Affects Substance Use The legalization of cannabis affects substance use, with the potential for both negative and positive impacts on public health, a new McGill-led study found. The researchers conducted a systematic review of evidence from 176 studies spanning 30 years in Canada, the United States, Europe, Uruguay and Australia. Published in The Milbank Quarterly, the review is one of the most comprehensive assessments to date of how cannabis policy reforms affect substance use and public health.
Aug 31, 2026	Is the Global Shift to the Right Threatening International Cannabis Reforms? Who controls government is one of the most important factors when discussing cannabis reform. Most international cannabis advisors focus on a country’s cannabis policies, but not necessarily on the politics that created those policies. They also tend to overlook the politics that will determine their future. That is where I differ. I not only follow cannabis policy, but also the politics that can determine whether those policies advance, stall, or move backwards.
Aug 31, 2026	Here’s how cannabis legalization affected tobacco, alcohol and opioid use: McGill study A new study out of McGill University shows that cannabis legalization has created a mixed bag of positive and negative impacts in addition to having possible effects on other substance use. Study lead Sarah Windle said that, as expected, medical and recreational cannabis legislation increased initiation and prevalence of use among adults. “What we were particularly interested in is whether other substance use changes, in particular, whether there’s consequences for even legal drugs such as alcohol or tobacco, because together alcohol and tobacco actually account for about 95 per cent of substance-related mortality worldwide,” said the PhD candidate in McGill’s department of epidemiology.
Aug 31, 2026	House To Vote On Delaying Hemp THC Ban This Week, Giving Lawmakers More Time To Craft Regulations To Keep Products Legal The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to consider a bill this week that contains provisions to delay the federal recriminalization of hemp THC products that is currently scheduled to take effect in November. The legislation, which has already been approved by the Senate, is intended to give lawmakers more time to craft regulations as an alternative to prohibition.
Aug 31, 2026	Rastafari leader urges brethren to join legal cannabis industry High Priest Selah, also known as Conneal Christian, is urging Rastafari brethren still operating outside the law to join the regulated cannabis industry, warning that division within the community is undermining the economic opportunities now available. The Nyabinghi Order leader made the appeal during an interview with Observer Media on the state of Antigua and Barbuda’s cannabis sector, framing legalisation as an opportunity the community must not squander through infighting.
Aug 31, 2026	BC, Ontario Lead in Cannabis Licensing in 2026, Revocations Surpass New Licences There have been 45 new cannabis production licences issued in Canada in the first eight months of 2026. As of the end of August, there are 900 federal cannabis licences. More than seven in 10 of these new licences were Micros (32), 24% were Standard (11), and one each was a Nursery and a Medical Sales-Only licence. Most new Micros (18 of 32) received both a Micro cultivation and a Micro Processing licence. British Columbia was home to the most new licences, with 18 (15 Micro, two Standard, one MSO). Ontario followed this with 12 (six Micro, six Standard), and Quebec with eight.*
Aug 30, 2026	A high old time! More than half of NYC senior citizens now use weed simply ‘to get high’: study Senior citizens in the Big Apple are using marijuana at record levels, with the vast majority doing it simply “to get high” rather than for medical reasons, according to a new study. Roughly 60% of people ages 65 and older in the city admitted they get stoned just for fun — outnumbering those who partake to treat chronic pain, relieve tension or sleep, said the study by NYU Langone, which surveyed hundreds of older adults in New York City.
Aug 30, 2026	Who Gets to Name a Weed Strain? Nobody. Everybody. There is no registry, no copyright and no authority. Six breeders on how a plant gets its name, who has the right to give it one, and why the market is drowning in names that mean nothing.
Aug 30, 2026	Scientists Discover a Cannabis Receptor That Could Stop Breast Cancer Spreading Cancer cells are proving trickier than we thought, so scientists are getting even trickier to shift the survival odds in our favor. Recent medical research has highlighted a significant issue: cancer cells display plasticity. Some cancer cells can spontaneously revert from a differentiated state to become 'immature' and stem-cell-like again, switching their identity to yield more diverse, aggressive, and proliferative tumors. As a result, they thwart traditional treatments like chemotherapy and radiation, which aim to stop cellular division and kill cancerous (and other) cells outright.
Aug 29, 2026	Cannabis Overtakes Cigarette Smoking In Gallup’s Latest U.S. Habits Poll Americans who say they smoke cannabis have overtaken those who say they smoke cigarettes, according to Gallup's latest poll on U.S. habits, reinforcing a broader trend of cannabis gaining favor over tobacco and alcohol.
Aug 29, 2026	The Industry Bet Against Bud. Flower Smokers Never Left. The cannabis industry spent years predicting flower’s decline. Grown Rogue CEO and co-founder Obie Strickler argues that the prediction said more about industry executives than it did about consumers.
Aug 29, 2026	Study Finds CBD Suppressed Growth and Invasion of Human Glioma Cells, While Reducing Tumor Growth in a Mouse Model Cannabidiol (CBD) significantly suppressed the growth, migration and invasion of glioma cells while reducing tumor burden in mice, according to a new study that identified a potential mechanism behind the cannabinoid’s anticancer effects. The study, published in BioMed Research International, was conducted by researchers affiliated with Anhui Medical University, Lu’an People’s Hospital and the Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences. Researchers examined whether CBD limits glioma progression partly by suppressing lysyl oxidase-like 2 (LOXL2), a protein involved in extracellular-matrix remodeling and cancer-cell invasiveness.

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