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| Mar 12, 2026 |
New Hampshire: Senate Republicans Kill House-Backed Adult-Use Marijuana Legalization Bill Members of the New Hampshire Senate voted largely along party lines to defeat House-backed legislation that sought to legalize the possession, home-cultivation, and retail sale of cannabis for adults. |
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| Mar 12, 2026 |
Growing to Wash: Why "Washers" Are Changing Cannabis When I first started writing this, I thought it would be a quick explainer of what people mean when they say they’re “growing to wash.” The more time I spent talking to hashmakers and growers who live in the ice water world, the more I realized this isn’t just a technique. It’s a different mindset. |
| Mar 12, 2026 |
Is the German Cannabis Boom Slowing Down, or Simply Normalising? Germany's cannabis imports, according to the latest figures from BfArM, nearly tripled in size in 2025, cementing it beyond any doubt as the engine behind Europe’s medical cannabis boom. Imports surpassed their already increased quota to hit 200 tonnes last year, up from just 72 tonnes in 2024, which was itself a record-breaking year. |
| Mar 12, 2026 |
US (RI): Slow rollout of new cannabis stores is about to get even slower The Cannabis Control Commission is contemplating slowing the already long-delayed awarding of 20 new retail cannabis dispensary licenses after local industry stakeholders raised concerns that new dispensaries will hurt their profit margins. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
Oklahoma cannabis operators notch win in federal court against state Oklahoma medical marijuana operators are escalating a legal fight against Gov. Kevin Stitt and other state authorities, whom they claim are waging a deliberate effort to shut them down. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
Hawaii Senate Passes Bill To Allow Medical Marijuana Use By Seriously Ill Patients In Health Facilities The Hawaii Senate has passed a bill to allow qualifying patients to access medical marijuana at health facilities. After receiving a favorable report in committee last week, the legislation from Sen. Joy San Buenaventura (D) advanced through the full chamber in a unanimous 25-0 vote on Tuesday as part of the consent calendar. A House companion version of the proposal has also been moving through the process this session. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
After a Decade of Growth, Legal Cannabis Declined in 2025 America's legal cannabis market, both medical and recreational, had been enjoying years of growth. But last year the streak ended. In 2025, total U.S. cannabis revenues were estimated to fall between $28.6 billion and $29.6 billion. That's down from about $30 billion in 2024. Moreover, it's the first time the country's cannabis market has failed to grow since 2014. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
Ontario cannabis stores forced to drop the word "dispensary", despite consumer preferences Some cannabis retailers in Ontario say they are being told to remove any use of the word "dispensary" from their websites and online storefronts. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
Marijuana May Be A 'Gateway To Women's Orgasm' In Sexual Health Treatment, Scientific Analysis Finds Marijuana may be a "gateway," but not in the stigmatized way it’s been portrayed by prohibitionists as a stepping stone to other drugs. Rather, a growing body of scientific literature signals cannabis is a “gateway to women’s orgasm” that could hold significant therapeutic potential in the treatment of female orgasmic disorder/difficulty (FOD), a new research paper says. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
Congressional Lawmakers Approve Youth Safety Bill That Could Complicate Marijuana Businesses’ Online Outreach A congressional committee has approved a bill aimed at protecting children online that could create complications for advertisers trying to promote legal marijuana and other regulated substances. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
The Best Rolling Papers on Earth, According to High Times Readers Rolling papers aren’t props. They’re the instrument that sets the pace and feel of a session. Whole towns learned to work with fiber, water and heat the way a luthier tunes a guitar. You can see it in the watermark, in how the seam seals, in how the ember travels without racing or stalling. Today’s factories use tools to keep every sheet the same thickness, the same airflow and the same clean cut. Small hand rooms still make special formats where a person’s eye and touch matter. Soldiers carried papers in field kits. Artists tucked giant sheets into record sleeves to make a point. The paper is part of the ritual, part of the memory of a room, and why a well-rolled joint feels like a small act of craft shared between friends. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
Adult-use laws may displace illicit cannabis markets Adopting recreational cannabis laws, beyond only medical cannabis laws, may help reduce the size of the illegal cannabis market in U.S. states, reports a new study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The study is among the first to comprehensively examine the dynamics of the illegal cannabis market using law enforcement seizure data. The findings are published in the International Journal of Drug Policy. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
New York Regulators Say Marijuana Sales Could Surpass California's New York's legal marijuana industry has started 2026 with strong momentum, following a year of rapid growth in 2025. State officials say sales during the opening weeks of the year suggest the market could reach new highs before the year ends. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
Cannabis company calls on Ottawa to postpone controversial medical cannabis cuts for veterans Aurora Cannabis is calling on the federal government to postpone upcoming changes to compensation rates for medical cannabis for veterans. Canada’s Budget 2025, released in November, included measures to adjust medical cannabis benefits for the RCMP and Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) from a maximum of $8.50 a gram to a new limit of $6.00 a gram. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
People raise treaty rights, medical access concerns over Nova Scotia's proposed cannabis law changes Speakers appearing before a Nova Scotia legislature committee urged the province to work with the Mi’kmaq and reconsider enforcement actions against unregulated cannabis stores as lawmakers look at amendments to the Cannabis Control Act. |
| Mar 10, 2026 |
Kentucky Cannabis Businesses Roll With the Punches, Limited Products in Medical Program’s Rollout Kentucky legalized medical cannabis on Jan. 1, 2025, but with the usual hiccups any new bureaucratic system endures, today’s roughly 20,000 patients and 19 businesses are in sync with one unified opinion: Open the door to as many formats as possible, especially in light of the program’s no-smoking law. |
| Mar 10, 2026 |
Canada's Organigram makes $268M move into German cannabis market Canada's largest cannabis producer is expanding its global reach with the acquisition of a major player in the world’s second-biggest market. |
| Mar 10, 2026 |
Cannabis Reshapes the Way We Recall the Truth Summary: Does cannabis just make you forgetful, or does it actually change what you "remember"? A new study reveals that THC doesn't just blur memories—it reshapes them. |
| Mar 10, 2026 |
Florida Supreme Court Won’t Review Cannabis Signatures; Adult-Use Legalization Dead for 2026 Florida's elected officials 2; citizen-initiated adult-use legalization campaigns, 0. The Florida Supreme Court, on March 9, declined a motion to rehear Smart & Safe Florida’s lawsuit against Secretary of State Cord Byrd, stemming from nearly 71,000 disqualified signatures for a petition to legalize adult-use cannabis in the November 2026 election. |
| Mar 10, 2026 |
Colorado Bill To Allow Medical Marijuana Use In Hospitals Heads To Governor’s Desk The Colorado House of Representatives has sent a bill to the governor that would allow terminally ill patients to use medical marijuana in healthcare facilities such as hospitals—with recently added provisions that advocates argue undermine the measure’s original intent. |