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Sep 23, 2026	CDC Data Shows High School Cannabis Use At Record Low New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that cannabis use among U.S. high schoolers is at the lowest level recorded since the agency started tracking the data in 1991. The data is from the 2025 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), which anonymously monitors high school health-risk behaviors, including drug use. According to the results, 12.9% of high schoolers said they currently use cannabis, while 25.5% said they have used cannabis at least once.
Sep 23, 2026	Thailand Cabinet approves bill to restrict cannabis to medical use Thailand's cabinet approved a draft bill on September 22 to tighten control over its cannabis industry, pushing forward the government's reversal of the decriminalisation policy that took effect in 2022. Public Health Minister Pattana Promphat announced the bill, which strengthens oversight of cannabis cultivation and processing and increases penalties for violations. It now goes to parliament for consideration.
Sep 23, 2026	American hemp sellers prepare for a looming ban on most of their products: ‘This is devastating’ Beginning in December, new federal restrictions will make many hemp products illegal. Businesses in the industry are getting ready to close down most or all of their operations, while advocates hope there's still time to change course before the ban begins.
Sep 22, 2026	CBD: Full-Spectrum Extracts Under Threat in Greece Greece is significantly tightening its regulations on CBD and hemp-derived products, requiring certain full-spectrum CBD oils and other natural extracts are set to disappear from the market. The new regulatory framework, outlined by the Greek Ministry of Health on September 15, significantly restricts the range of cannabinoids that can be sold legally and could transform the hemp industry in the country.
Sep 22, 2026	Alcohol sales falling as cannabis sales climb in Nova Scotia: report Nova Scotians are buying less alcohol and more cannabis, according to the Nova Scotia Liquor Corp. (NSLC). The provincial alcohol retailer released first-quarter financial results Tuesday, showing a slight dip in sales for drinks, but an uptick for cannabis when compared with the same period last year.
Sep 22, 2026	Cannabis plebiscite not happening in Steinbach The City states that the petition that was received was reviewed in accordance with the requirements of The Liquor, Gaming and Cannabis Control Act. It says that as of the date that the petition was submitted, the Steinbach voters list contained 13,445 names. According to The Act, the petition would need to be signed by at least 20 per cent of those persons, or 2,689 electors, to initiate a plebiscite respecting the sale of retail cannabis within the City of Steinbach.
Sep 22, 2026	A matter of latitude: Icelandic grower develops hemp for northern conditions At 66 degrees north in Iceland's Westfjords, day length does not fall below 12 hours until the 21st of September. This conventional photoperiod hemp plant starting to flower just as the first frosts arrive. High Latitude Hemp, a small family-owned company based in Bolungarvík, grows CBD-rich hemp in the far north-west of the country. Here, owner, scientist and grower Sigurður Halldór Árnasonis also developing cultivation knowledge and genetics suited to northern conditions. "The biggest challenge is the photoperiod. In Iceland you have 24 hours of daylight all summer, and it doesn't go below 12/12 until the 21st of September," says Sigurður. "Around September and October you get frost, so if you´re just starting to flower at this time, then you're in bad shape."
Sep 22, 2026	New Report Details Evolving Trends and Shift Toward Value in Canadian Cannabis Retail Cannabis retail chain Canna Cabana ranks first among Canadian cannabis retailers in brand awareness and several consumer shopping metrics, according to a new report. The report, compiled by Rebel & Thorn, a Toronto-based media agency and marketing consultancy, found that 36% of surveyed consumers recognized the Canna Cabana brand, which is owned by the Canadian cannabis company High Tide. This was the highest result among all retailers featured in the Q3 2026 report, up from 29% recognition in Q3 2025 and 11% in Q4 2021. Fire and Flower was the next highest-rated retail brand in Canada in the most recent report, with 25% of those polled saying they were familiar with the brand, followed by Value Buds at about 9% and Tokyo Smoke at about 7%.
Sep 22, 2026	One Out Of Ten Senior Citizens Used Marijuana Within The Past 24 Hours, Federally Funded Study Says More than a tenth of senior citizens used marijuana within the past day, according to the results of a new federally funded study. The research also shows that among those who do consume cannabis, many use it to simply get high—but that medical reasons are also common.
Sep 21, 2026	Medical Cannabis and Back Pain: Opioid Use Has Dropped by 90% in 10 Years A ten-year study in Israel suggests that treatment with medical cannabis could be associated with a substantial and lasting reduction in opioid use in patients suffering from chronic back pain. The researchers also observed significant improvements in pain intensity and functional disability, although the observational nature of the study did not allow for direct causation.
Sep 21, 2026	Poll: Majority in North Carolina Support Legalizing Adult-Use Cannabis An Elon University poll determined that most voters in North Carolina support legalizing cannabis for both medical and adult-use purposes, WRAL News reports. The poll found 75% support for medical cannabis reforms, including 89% of registered Democrats and 57% of Republicans, while support for adult-use cannabis was just over 50%, including 74% of Democrats and 33% of Republicans.
Sep 21, 2026	Token Tuesday Partners with Budtenders Association to Bring Event Intelligence and Research to Canada’s Cannabis Trade Show Circuit Token Tuesday, the cannabis retail networking event series known for selling out shows across Manitoba and Saskatchewan, has partnered with Budtenders Association (BTA), the industry’s leading retail intelligence and education platform for cannabis professionals and consumers. The partnership brings structured data, research, and event intelligence capabilities to Token Tuesday for the first time, and marks a new benchmark for how trade shows in the sector measure success.
Sep 21, 2026	Social Media Engagement Can Drive Real Business for Cannabis Brands and Dispensaries Cannabis companies spend a lot of time thinking about what to post. They plan product photos, educational carousels, staff videos, strain spotlights, promotional graphics, event recaps and short-form videos designed to capture attention. Then the content goes live, receives a few comments and sits there while the team moves on to the next post. That approach treats social media like a digital billboard. The bigger opportunity in social media is to treat engagement like a room full of people you can talk to. For dispensaries and cannabis brands, some of the most valuable social media activity happens after the content is published. It happens in the comments, direct messages, Story responses and conversations a company starts with other accounts.
Sep 21, 2026	People Harmed By Marijuana Criminalization Would Receive Direct Cash Payments From The Government Under New Illinois Bill Illinois would substantially expand its efforts to repair the harms of marijuana criminalization enforcement under a new bill that seeks to give cash payments directly to people impacted by prohibition laws. The legislation, filed on Thursday by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford (D), would create a new Illinois Freedom Program “for the purpose of issuing direct cash payments to eligible individuals who have been disproportionately impacted by historical cannabis enforcement.”
Sep 21, 2026	Cannabis Is Legal Across Much of America. States Without Adult-Use Legalization Still Reported 186,581 Arrests in 2025 America increasingly looks like a country that has moved beyond cannabis prohibition. Walk through parts of California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oregon or Washington and legal cannabis can seem thoroughly ordinary. Licensed stores operate in commercial districts. Products move through regulated supply chains. States collect taxes. Businesses employ thousands of people. Cannabis brands advertise, exhibit at trade shows and compete for shelf space like participants in any other regulated consumer market. Then cross a state line. The legal assumptions can change quickly.
Sep 21, 2026	Are US Cannabis Contracts Enforceable? A $32m Court Ruling Just Said No A Michigan breach-of-contract dispute between cultivator Hello Farms and Curaleaf Holdings has cracked open a fault line that runs beneath every cannabis contract in the US, opening the door to a ‘mutually assured destruction’ defence that cannot be closed. On September 10, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit overturned a $31.8m verdict against Curaleaf, ruling that its subsidiaries’ supply contract with the cultivator was unenforceable because cannabis remains illegal under federal law. The ruling has set a ‘dangerous precedent’ for the wider industry, founding partner of S Burns Legal PLLC Susan Burns told Business of Cannabis.
Sep 21, 2026	Without Ottawa’s support, cannabis companies warn Canada could lose its lead on global exports The cannabis industry is urging the Carney government to use surging marijuana exports as a means of diversifying Canadian trade with non-U.S. markets, warning Canada could soon lose its competitive advantage to rivals. Cannabis sales to foreign markets are already on track to surpass $1-billion this year, according to Statistics Canada, and the industry expects that to double in 2027. Not only is that happening without government support, but industry insiders have come to believe Ottawa is intentionally avoiding their calls for help.
Sep 20, 2026	New Data Demonstrates That German Legalization Is Succeeding Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) recently published an annual report detailing, among other things, data pertaining to cannabis-related offenses in the European country from the 2025 calendar year. The data demonstrates that cannabis-related offenses are decreasing. “According to the report, drug offenses excluding cannabis fell by 4.6 percent in 2025 compared to the previous year, to 122,082. The number of suspects rose by 3.7 percent to 90,832. The number of cannabis offenses, however, experienced a rapid decline. In 2023, there were 215,865 such offenses, in 2024 there were 101,345, and in 2025 there were 42,909.” wrote krautinvest in its original reporting (translated from German to English).
Sep 19, 2026	THE RECORD Turns Cannabis Justice Data Into a New Kind of New York Street Campaign New York’s legal cannabis market is built around storefronts, licensed products, compliance systems, brands, tax revenue, and an increasingly normalized relationship with a plant that spent generations on the other side of American criminal law. THE RECORD begins with the part of that transition that is easier to overlook. The arrests. The sentences. The criminal records. The families and communities that lived through prohibition long before legal cannabis became an industry. Created as a collaboration between New York cannabis brand Silly Nice and independent culture publication stupidDOPE, THE RECORD is an evolving editorial and public-information initiative built around a deceptively simple idea:
Sep 19, 2026	German Cannabis Association Debunks Opponent’s Propaganda For many decades, cannabis opponents have made numerous anti-cannabis claims that are based on half-truths, spin-doctoring, and in some cases, outright lies. Such claims have worked because, unfortunately, most members of society do not research the claims to determine whether they are factual. Thankfully, there are cannabis advocates who put in the necessary effort to fact-check claims made by cannabis opponents, with a recent example occurring in Germany, where the DHV – Deutscher Hanfverband eV fact-checked a claim made by Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt.

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