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| Apr 21, 2026 |
The Extinction of the Real: How Traditional Hashish Vanished While the Modern Market Looked Away Traditional imported hashish—hand-rubbed Nepali charas, Lebanese blonde, Moroccan temple balls, Afghani black—has effectively vanished from North American markets. This is not a story about enforcement or interdiction. This is a story about market economics and how legalization ironically destroyed demand for the very craft products it claimed to celebrate. |
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| Apr 21, 2026 |
Cannabis Industry Council Releases Global Guide for Patients Travelling with Medical Cannabis The UK’s Cannabis Industry Council (CIC) has published a new comprehensive guide for patients travelling with prescribed medical cannabis in the wake of a series of reported incidents involving both airlines and border control authorities. The guide, Travelling with Medical Cannabis, published today and available free via the CIC’s website, covers domestic UK travel, international country-by-country frameworks across Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Australasia, and includes a practical pre-travel checklist. |
| Apr 20, 2026 |
Teen Marijuana Use Is Lower Now Than Before Legalization, Government Study From Minnesota Officials Shows Despite concerns from marijuana legalization opponents who claimed the policy would lead to skyrocketing use by teens, cannabis consumption by middle and high school students in Minnesota is lower now than it has ever been over the past decade, according to newly published state data. “There continues to be a steady decline in youth cannabis use since 2013, with 96% of students reporting not having used cannabis in the last month,” the state Department of Health said in a press release on Monday about the latest results of the Minnesota Student Survey, which is conducted every three years among students in grades 5, 8, 9 and 11. |
| Apr 20, 2026 |
Idaho MMJ Ballot Initiative Supporters Have 100k Signatures as Deadline Looms Backers of a proposed medical marijuana measure in Idaho say they have surpassed 100,000 collected signatures and are now racing to meet an April 30 deadline that would place the issue before voters in November. The campaign, led by the Natural Medicine Alliance of Idaho, aims to allow patients with serious illnesses to access cannabis for therapeutic use. Conditions listed by organizers include PTSD, cancer, epilepsy, AIDS, and Crohn’s disease. |
| Apr 20, 2026 |
New Report Reveals Massive Decline in Cannabis Arrests Following Legalization WASHINGTON, April 20, 2026 – The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), the nation’s leading cannabis policy organization, released a comprehensive new report detailing the landscape of cannabis arrests in the United States. Based on FBI Crime Explorer data, the report examines cannabis arrest data in all 50 states and highlights a wide gap between legalization and prohibition states. The full report, including a state-by-state breakdown of arrest data, is available here. Since 1995, law enforcement has made more than 21 million cannabis arrests in the U.S. However, MPP’s report shows that as states move toward legalization and sensible regulation, the era of mass arrests is beginning to wane, but not everywhere. |
| Apr 20, 2026 |
House passes bill removing limits on THC in cannabis products Connecticut - A bill revamping regulations around the cannabis market passed the House of Representatives Monday night after a debate over what some lawmakers saw as a loosening of important restrictions on cannabis sale, and what others saw as logical modifications to a system that was placing barriers in front of a growing market. |
| Apr 20, 2026 |
Retail cannabis prices still dropping, but unevenly across the country According to Statistics Canada’s Consumer Price Index (CPI), retail cannabis prices dropped 3.2% year-over-year in March 2026 compared to March 2025, and declined 0.3% from February to March. ....For cannabis, a baseline price of 100 was established in December 2018 following legalization. Since then, the index value has mostly declined, with only a few small and brief monthly or bi-monthly increases. While the first few years of legal cannabis saw prices drop by about 8-9% a year, prices since December 2023 have decreased at a more modest rate. |
| Apr 20, 2026 |
4/20 draws smaller crowds in Vancouver but advocates say cannabis issues remain
Clouds of smoke drifted above the Vancouver Art Gallery on Monday as cannabis users gathered to mark 4/20, a day long associated with cannabis culture, protest and advocacy. The annual event featured vendors, music and speakers sharing personal stories, including how they use cannabis medically and why they say stigma around the drug still lingers. Free joints were handed out and the crowd cheered as speakers took turns at the microphone. While the atmosphere was celebratory, many attendees said the event continues to serve a deeper purpose. |
| Apr 20, 2026 |
New Marijuana Report Shows Arrests Are Plummeting As Legalization Spreads, But Criminalized States Still Send Thousands To Jail Each Year As more states pass laws legalizing marijuana, arrests for cannabis are dropping considerably, a new report from an advocacy organization shows, not surprisingly. But it also makes the case that there is still work to be done as tens of thousands of people continue to be put in handcuffs every year in the U.S. over something that is now legal in nearly half the states. |
| Apr 20, 2026 |
This 4/20, Remember The Cannabis Prisoners Legalization Left Behind As legal cannabis becomes a multibillion-dollar industry, people are still serving decades, even life, in prison for the same plant. That is not progress. It is unfinished business. Every year on 4/20, millions of people celebrate cannabis culture. Legalization expands, new markets open, and the industry keeps growing. But while the legal cannabis economy thrives, there are still people sitting in prison cells serving decades, and in some cases life sentences, for cannabis offenses. |
| Apr 20, 2026 |
Cannabis Policy in 2026—Setbacks, Rollbacks, and Roadblocks For more than a decade, cannabis policy in the United States has steadily moved toward legalization. Since Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize adult-use cannabis in 2012, a growing number of states have adopted regulated cannabis markets. Today, 40 states have legalized medical and/or recreational cannabis. Approval of the legalization of cannabis, for either medical or recreational use, continues to be strong among Americans. |
| Apr 20, 2026 |
Is it legal to have weed in Texas? See latest on THC flower crackdown A crackdown on smokable hemp products in Texas has hit pause — at least for now — adding to confusion over what’s legal when it comes to cannabis and THC. For years, vape and smoke shops across the state have sold hemp-derived alternatives to traditional cannabis, which remains largely illegal in Texas. Those products include delta-8, delta-10 and THCA. (Delta-9 THC is the primary intoxicating compound in cannabis and is illegal above 0.3% under state law.) |
| Apr 20, 2026 |
The 420 Failure: Here's the Real Reason Tilray Brands Has Been a Horrible Investment Despite Operating in a Legal Marijuana Market Key Points Tilray has been struggling to generate much organic growth, and it remains deeply unprofitable. It and other cannabis companies have experienced significant declines in value over the past five years. While marijuana is legal in Canada, government regulation has been highly restrictive. |
| Apr 19, 2026 |
Can cannabis treat opioid addiction?
In July, a user on the popular social media forum Reddit posed a simple but charged question: “Does cannabis help?” Posted to r/OpiatesRecovery, a 56,000 member forum for people recovering from opioid addiction, the question drew mixed responses within minutes. Some said they found it helpful; others cited cannabis’ negative side effects. For cannabis and psychedelics researcher Philippe Lucas, the question is not hypothetical. |
| Apr 19, 2026 |
Teen cannabis use rose after California legalization, reversing years of decline Teen cannabis use in Northern California increased following the legalization of adult recreational cannabis and later declined during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research from Kaiser Permanente published in JAMA Network Open. |
| Apr 19, 2026 |
They tried everything, and nothing worked. Now, women are turning to cannabis for help
By Dr. Sanjay Gupta - When I started filming the first “Weed” documentary back in 2012, I could not have predicted where this journey would take me — or the stories that would keep unfolding long after that initial exploration into the world of cannabis. At the time, I thought I was making a single self-contained film about a controversial plant and its place in modern medicine. What I didn’t realize was that I was also beginning a long, evolving conversation about hope, healing and who gets to be taken seriously when talking about something as provocative as medical marijuana. |
| Apr 18, 2026 |
Trump Complains DOJ Is ‘Slow-Walking’ Marijuana Rescheduling, Four Months After He Issued An Order To Get It Done President Donald Trump on Saturday appeared to complain that federal officials are “slow-walking” following through on an executive order he issued to complete the process of federally rescheduling marijuana. |
| Apr 17, 2026 |
Forbes 2026 Cannabis 42.0 List Every April 20, the high holiday for marijuana lovers, is a reason to examine the state of the $30 billion cannabis industry. And this year, there is tremendous optimism that federal reform is finally coming. |
| Apr 17, 2026 |
Nebraska Medical Marijuana Regulations Now Await AG and Governor’s Approval
The Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission has approved a set of rules governing the state’s emerging cannabis supply system, almost a year after first adopting temporary guidelines. The framework has operated under short-term extensions lasting 90 days at a time. The measures, repeatedly renewed, outline how medical marijuana businesses must operate. They address licensing limits, security standards, approved product types, and the qualifications required for physicians who recommend cannabis to patients. |
| Apr 17, 2026 |
Mass. cannabis law could take effect before 4/20 — here’s what changes A new cannabis law in Massachusetts could take effect on the eve of April 20 — the informal “4/20” holiday widely celebrated by cannabis users — triggering immediate changes for dispensaries and consumers alike. The new statue, called "H.5350, An Act Modernizing the Commonwealth’s Cannabis Laws‚" was on Gov. Maura Healey’s desk for consideration to become law no later than April 19, after it was passed by the House and Senate on April 6. |