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| Sep 16, 2025 |
Tokelahoma's Cautionary Tale: How Weed Legalization Went Wrong in a Deep Red State
Higher costs, tougher enforcement, cratering prices and rampant criminal activity have eviscerated the once-booming medical marijuana market. |
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| Sep 16, 2025 |
'Got to go!': City councillor succeeds in fight to paint over cannabis shop billboard A London city councillor has succeeded in covering over a painted billboard he felt had "to go." Peter Cuddy said the sign for a cannabis shop will soon be replaced by a community mural. |
| Sep 16, 2025 |
Does federal marijuana prohibition mean cannabis workers can’t unionize? A Michigan cannabis company is attempting to thwart a unionization effort using a novel tactic: convincing the Trump administration that cannabis workers don’t enjoy federal labor law protections because cannabis is illegal under federal law. |
| Sep 16, 2025 |
Does Cannabis Use Reduce Alcohol Consumption? There have been conflicting results from studies examining this — some indicated cannabis co-use is associated with reductions in alcohol consumption, others an increase or no change at all. |
| Sep 15, 2025 |
Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill Deserves Lawmakers’ Support, Letter From ACLU And Other Groups Says A coalition of drug policy reform and civil rights organizations sent letter urging members of the U.S. House of Representatives to cosponsor a recently filed bill to federally legalize marijuana and promote equity. |
| Sep 15, 2025 |
How to Protect Your Outdoor Cannabis Crops From Pests
Mason Walker is stressed out. With the already intense pressures of running his cannabis farm in Oregon, he’s facing another challenge this season: more aphids threatening to chew up his plants at East Fork Cultivars. |
| Sep 13, 2025 |
Police seize more than 8,000 cannabis plants from area grow-op Police executed a search warrant at the Canal Road site earlier this week; plants, dried cannabis and packaging material were found |
| Sep 13, 2025 |
Cannabis generates $1 billion a year for New Brunswick GDP, chamber study says New report says the industry created more than 9,000 direct and indirect jobs in the province |
| Sep 11, 2025 |
House GOP Moves Forward on Blocking Trump Administration’s Power to Reschedule Cannabis A month after President Donald Trump confirmed that his administration is considering rescheduling cannabis to a less restrictive federal status, his GOP counterparts in the U.S. House are now attempting to strip those executive powers. |
| Sep 11, 2025 |
Frequent Cannabis Users Show No Driving Impairment After Two-Day Break Scientists from the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR) at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that, in the largest such study to date, frequent cannabis users did not display impairments in driving performance after at least 48 hours of abstinence. The new findings have implications for public health as well as the enforcement of laws related to cannabis and driving. |
| Sep 11, 2025 |
Huge legal cannabis farm told to cut smell or risk closure A massive legal cannabis farm in the Netherlands has been told to reduce the odor coming from its facility or risk closure after more than 2,000 complaints from hundreds of residents, according to a regional Dutch environmental agency. |
| Sep 8, 2025 |
Why are teenagers robbing Calgary's cannabis stores? There has been a rash of violent robberies committed at cannabis stores throughout Calgary in the last few years, despite a regulatory change in 2022 that was supposed to curb such crimes. |
| Sep 8, 2025 |
Tech-driven loyalty programs are key to cannabis retail Borrowing from the playbook of industries like airlines and hospitality, an increasing number of cannabis retailers are upping their loyalty program game as a means of engaging customers to keep them returning to their stores. |
| Sep 7, 2025 |
Whoopi Goldberg's Cannabis dream turned into legal battle The View co-host’s marijuana company WhoopFam battles former Paterson mayor over failed dispensary deal in explosive legal showdown |
| Sep 5, 2025 |
Where Is Cannabis Legal? A Guide To All 50 States Texas officially became the 40th state in the country to allow medical marijuana sales, thanks to an expanded program that went into effect in September. |
| Sep 5, 2025 |
Massachusetts Attorney General Certifies Ballot Measures To Recriminalize Recreational Marijuana Sales The attorney general of Massachusetts has certified and prepared summaries for dozens of proposed 2026 ballot initiatives—including a pair that would roll back adult-use marijuana legalization in the state. |
| Sep 5, 2025 |
Case Studies In International Cannabis: What The World Can Teach Us The global cannabis marketplace is no longer a niche conversation reserved for activists and academics. It’s here, it’s big business, and it’s evolving in ways that continue to surprise even the most seasoned observers. Countries around the world are experimenting with legalization and regulation, and while there is no single playbook, the lessons are beginning to pile up. What we see is a diverse collection of approaches, shaped by culture, economics, politics, and international obligations. |
| Sep 4, 2025 |
Health Canada continues to increase inspections of federal licence holders The number of Health Canada inspections of federally licensed cannabis facilities and licence holders increased in the 2024-2025 fiscal year, compared to previous years. |
| Sep 4, 2025 |
Study: Using Cannabis Prior To Drinking Results in Significantly Less Alcohol Consumption Subjects drink less alcohol and experience fewer alcohol cravings after consuming cannabis, according to data published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. |
| Sep 4, 2025 |
Cannabis workers seeking union recognition strike in Ann Arbor Several employees of a Michigan marijuana company are hoping to accomplish a still-rare feat in the state’s nearly 6-year-old recreational cannabis industry: to unionize. |