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Aug 12, 2026	Global Cannabis Use Up 40% Over Last Decade as Reform Spreads, but Overlap With Illicit Market Growing Use of cannabis across the globe has grown by 40% over the last decade, with 256m people now reported to have used cannabis over the past year in 2024. That growth, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime‘s World Drug Report 2026 (WDR26), follows a ‘continuum of gradual normalisation’ towards cannabis use, which in turn has helped drive a fragmented, but expanding wave of policy liberalisation.
Aug 12, 2026	Rwanda: A New License Revives the Country's Ambitions in Medical Cannabis Le 24 juillet 2026, le gouvernement rwandais a approuvé un accord de concession avec InipasvalleyRw Ltd pour le projet baptisé High-Value Therapeutic Crops. La décision a été prise lors d’une réunion du Conseil des ministres présidée par Paul Kagame.
Aug 12, 2026	Village Farms launches easy-pour cannabis pouches Village Farms International has introduced a new pouch design for its Super Toast cannabis brand, bringing an easy-pour format to Canada’s milled flower segment. The company described this as the first use of this type of packaging in the category in the Canadian market.
Aug 12, 2026	Curaleaf Launches Hostile Bid for Aurora Cannabis at 45% Premium U.S. cannabis operator Curaleaf Holdings (TSX:CURA) went public with an unsolicited takeover offer for Canadian rival Aurora Cannabis (TSX/NASDAQ:ACB) on Tuesday, proposing a deal that values Aurora at a 45% premium and would forge a global cannabis giant with operations across 17 countries and annual revenue exceeding $1.5 billion. Under the terms disclosed by Curaleaf, each Aurora share would be exchanged for 0.34 of a Curaleaf share plus $0.75 in cash, equating to $4 per share. Curaleaf added that if Aurora’s stock were to experience a “substantial rise” before acceptance, the total bid price would be capped at $5 per share. The company said the offer was taken directly to Aurora shareholders after multiple private attempts to engage Aurora’s management failed to spark discussions.
Aug 12, 2026	Federal government invests $24 million for cannabis and brain health research TORONTO — Federal Minister of Health Marjorie Michel has announced $24 million to create the Canadian Cannabis and Brain Health Consortium. Funded through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the group of 10 research teams from across Canada will work together to study how cannabis affects the brain in people of various ages.
Aug 11, 2026	AURORA CANNABIS INC. RESPONDS TO PRESS RELEASE OF CURALEAF HOLDINGS, INC. REGARDING INTENTION TO LAUNCH UNSOLICITED TAKE-OVER BID EDMONTON, AB, Aug. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Aurora Cannabis Inc. ("Aurora" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: ACB) (TSX: ACB), the Canadian-based leading global medical cannabis company, responded today to a press release issued by Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. ("Curaleaf") regarding its stated intention to launch an unsolicited take-over bid for all of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company (the "Aurora Shares") at a stated implied consideration of US$4.00 per Share, consisting of 0.3463 subordinate voting shares of Curaleaf plus US$0.75 in cash per Aurora Share (the "Proposal").
Aug 11, 2026	Alcohol Retailers And Wholesalers Support Bill To Keep Hemp THC Drinks Federally Legal Several major alcohol industry participants are backing a new bill in Congress that would exempt hemp beverages from a currently scheduled ban on THC products derived from the plant while enacting new provisions to tax and regulate the cannabis drinks like alcohol.
Aug 11, 2026	Curaleaf looks to buy Aurora Cannabis, takes bid directly to shareholders STAMFORD — Curaleaf Holdings Inc. says it intends to launch a takeover bid for Edmonton-based cannabis company Aurora Cannabis Inc. Curaleaf said in a news release on Tuesday it plans to make an offer to purchase all of Aurora’s issued and outstanding common shares. If successful, the move would create a combined cannabis company with a footprint in 17 countries across Europe, North America and other international markets, it said.
Aug 10, 2026	Morocco's Cannabis Reform: Why Small Farmers Are Left Behind \| Dw Documentary Morocco's legalization of cannabis for medicinal purposes was welcomed by growers in the country. The promise of a better future, however, has yet to materialize for many small-scale farmers. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BA1yL8RfbME?si=_0GgMK28iwmWqufh" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Aug 10, 2026	Why Is Cannabis Still Illegal in the UK? The History Behind Medical Cannabis Law The 2018 law change generated headlines suggesting cannabis had been legalised. It had not, and the confusion has persisted ever since because the actual change was narrow, technical and easy to misreport. Understanding what happened requires separating two systems that operate side by side and are frequently conflated.
Aug 10, 2026	Senate extends temporary lifeline for hemp THC – and sets up fight with cannabis industry Key points: The U.S. Senate voted early Saturday to extend a deadline for when hemp THC products become illegal until December. Supporters, including major lawmakers and the alcohol lobby, believe they can convince the House to also delay a ban and regulate the products Setting up a showdown between state-regulated cannabis and the hemp industry, cannabis industry forces pledged to lobby Congress to keep the hemp ban intact.
Aug 10, 2026	N.S. correctional officer sentenced to 3 years for bringing cannabis into facility In what a Supreme Court judge called an “egregious breach of…trust,” a Nova Scotia correctional officer brought contraband cannabis into his facility, receiving a three-year federal sentence in the process.
Aug 9, 2026	The CDC’s New CHS Report Has a Cannabis Problem: It Doesn’t Know What Patients Actually Used The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new report on August 6, 2026, examining emergency department visits involving cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, better known as CHS. Predictably, the findings are already ripe for another round of alarming cannabis headlines. There is just one enormous problem. The CDC does not actually know what cannabinoid products caused the cases it counted. That distinction matters.
Aug 9, 2026	New Law Opens More Doors for New York Cannabis Businesses New York is expanding opportunities for licensed cannabis microbusinesses to reach consumers through approved community events under legislation Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law. S.10113/A.11217 allows eligible microbusinesses to participate in Cannabis Showcase Events, including approved pop-ups, farmers markets and public market events.
Aug 8, 2026	Senate Passes Spending Bill With One-Month Delay to Federal Hemp Crackdown WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has passed a government funding bill that would give the nation’s embattled hemp industry roughly one more month before sweeping federal restrictions on hemp-derived THC products take effect.
Aug 8, 2026	After 2 Decades of Raids and Prison Stints, Liverpool's 'Cannabis Martyr' Is Still 'Fighting for Freedom' Gary Youds says his cannabis café is “what the future looks like the day after the drug war.”
Aug 7, 2026	California approves first cannabis self-checkout kiosk Cannabis dispensary Perfect Union Northside in Sacramento has introduced what its parent company describes as California's first regulator-approved cannabis self-checkout system, according to a New York Post report. MWG Holdings Group received clearance to deploy the RFID-based technology, which allows customers to purchase cannabis products through a process resembling self-checkout at supermarkets and convenience stores.
Aug 7, 2026	Why a Massachusetts town owes the cannabis industry $2 million A tony Boston suburb must return more than $2 million in fees collected from three legal cannabis business after failing to demonstrate it properly spent the money. The city of Newton’s bill to cannabis retailers, which court records show was imposed by a Middlesex Superior Court judge on Tuesday, is the latest example of Massachusetts cannabis businesses challenging localities over “community impact fees” – and winning.
Aug 7, 2026	Dr. Oz Asks Senators To Delay Hemp Product Ban So Seniors Can Get CBD Products Covered Through Medicare Dr. Mehmet Oz, who leads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is asking U.S. senators to reject an amendment that would keep a forthcoming ban on hemp products on track to take effect in November. “Passage of this amendment would undo significant gains that have been made to make clinically-appropriate full-spectrum hemp-derived CBD accessible to the senior citizens and individuals with disabilities that rely on the Medicare program for their healthcare,” Oz wrote in a letter to senators.
Aug 7, 2026	The Convenience Revolution Has Finally Reached Cannabis Most of what Americans buy now arrives without anyone leaving the house. Dinner comes in twenty minutes. Groceries are ordered on a phone and left at the door. Prescriptions refill automatically. Convenience has become the baseline expectation across nearly every retail category, and consumers notice immediately when a product fails to meet it. Cannabis was one of the last categories to catch up. For most of the legal era, buying THC meant driving to a dispensary, waiting in line, and paying in cash. That is changing, and platforms like Edibles.com are part of the reason why. Launched in March 2025 and based in Atlanta, the wellness-focused marketplace ships vetted, third-party-tested hemp-derived THC products directly to consumers across more than 30 states, including many where no dispensary exists.

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