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| Apr 22, 2026 |
Canada’s cannabis export dominance remains despite global price compression, rising standards
The global medical cannabis market is growing quickly but inconsistently, with tightening regulatory environments and a competitive supply chain where margins are universally compressing, according to the newest market report from the Global Cannabis Exchange. |
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| Apr 22, 2026 |
US set to move to reclassify marijuana as early as Wednesday, Axios reports
WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - The United States administration is expected to move to ?reclassify marijuana as soon as Wednesday, Axios reported, ?citing an official familiar with the matter, sending U.S. stocks of cannabis-related companies higher. The decision to reclassify marijuana would represent one of the ?most significant federal changes to marijuana policy in ?decades, removing barriers to researching the drug's potential ?use cases. |
| Apr 22, 2026 |
Does the UK Media’s Cannabis Coverage Reflect Public Opinion? The Data Says No
This morning, the latest in a now-weekly series of stories in the British mainstream press was published in The Times, for the second week in a row taking aim at the advertising practices of some of the UK’s largest clinics. It comes just days after one of the country’s largest and most widely respected polling companies, YouGov, published the results of a representative survey examining the British public’s attitudes towards cannabis. |
| Apr 22, 2026 |
Six Out Of Ten Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana, New Poll Shows
Americans broadly favor legalizing marijuana for recreational or medical purposes, with support across party lines, according to a new poll. The YouGov survey from published on Monday found that 59 percent of U.S. adults want to legalize cannabis—including 75 percent of Democrats, 50 percent of Republicans and 54 percent of independents. |
| Apr 22, 2026 |
Rosin, Raids and Risk: Spain’s New Cannabis Frontier
On a cold night in late January 2025, a home lab in Espinardo (Murcia) ended in tragedy. Two young men were killed when a butane-based cannabis extraction attempt went catastrophically wrong. As the local press later reported, the pair had been attempting to produce highly concentrated hash oil — BHO, short for butane hash oil — by blasting cannabis with flammable gas. The blast leveled the walls, igniting a deadly fire. |
| Apr 22, 2026 |
Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club says about $100,000 in products seized in raid
Provincial authorities raided the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club on Tuesday, more than three years after the last raid on the unlicensed non-profit dispensary, which sells cannabis products to mostly low-income people with chronic illnesses. Club founder Ted Smith said officers with the province’s Community Safety Unit arrived Tuesday morning shortly after the shop opened and began seizing products. |
| Apr 21, 2026 |
Iowa Gubernatorial Candidate Plans to Legalize Adult-Use Cannabis, Regulate Hemp Products
Iowa’s 2026 governor’s race is now considered a toss-up, and the lone Democratic candidate pulled back the curtain on his plans to legalize adult-use cannabis and regulate cannabinoid hemp products. Rob Sand, who has served as Iowa’s state auditor since 2019 – he was the only Democrat to win a statewide election race in 2022 – released the details of his plan to legalize, tax and regulate adult-use cannabis similar to alcohol on April 20, an international cannabis holiday. |
| Apr 21, 2026 |
Bipartisan Congressional Bill to Let States Have Their Own Hemp THC Rules
A new bipartisan effort in Congress is offering states a way to sidestep an upcoming federal crackdown on hemp-derived THC products, instead of forcing an immediate nationwide ban. The proposal, introduced last week, would let individual states maintain their existing regulatory systems rather than adopt a stricter federal standard scheduled to begin in November. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
New Report Reveals Massive Decline in Cannabis Arrests Following Legalization
[PRESS RELEASE] – 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. https://www.mpp.org/issues/criminal-justice/the-state-of-enforcement-progress-and-shortcomings-in-cannabis-arrest-rates/ |
| 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 |
Happy 4/20 2026 From Cannabis Culture
Happy 4/20 2026 From Cannabis Culture! Join us on the Pot Block in Vancouver for a huge 4/20 celebration. Today is APRIL 20 and we are celebrating on the Pot Block in Vancouver with four floors of live music, contests, dab bars, tattoos, tarot readings, live painting, give-aways and tons more fun for stoners (19 years+). Passes give you access to the Cannabis Culture Lounge, High Score Lounge and The New Amsterdam Cafe (301 West Hastings Street in Vancouver). |
| Apr 20, 2026 |
Instead of competing on price, cannabis retailers win with community
Competing solely on price is becoming increasingly difficult for cannabis retailers as markets mature and prices decline, squeezing margins. But since advertising bans limit how operators can attract new customers, discounting remains a necessary tool for many retailers but not a sustainable long-term strategy. In response, some operators are shifting their focus toward community engagement. From yoga classes and educational workshops to movie nights and workforce development programs, cannabis retailers are investing in experiences that bring customers back for reasons beyond price. |
| 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. |