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Jun 21, 2026	Cannabis Doesn’t Distort Reality. It Shows You the Director’s Cut. David Lenson, in On Drugs, isolates with rare philosophical precision a feature of cannabis consciousness that transcends the usual cliches about intoxication. He writes: “The cannabis user wants to take control of his or her consciousness, and what it contains at any given moment. The 1965 phrase of dismissal ‘Get out of my movie!’ expresses this heightened stewardship of internal life. What offends must be avoided, and what pleases can be enjoyed instant by instant with contemplative exactitude.”
Jun 21, 2026	Cannabis in Oncology Nursing: Reducing Polypharmacy and Managing Symptoms At the OneOncology APP Symposium, Morvarid Rezaie, DO, HMDC, FACOI, a palliative care physician at The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, addressed a key challenge for oncology nurses: managing the complex symptom burden of cancer patients while minimizing polypharmacy. In an interview with Oncology Nursing News, Rezaie explained how medical cannabis serves as a multimodal tool that can simplify care plans and improve patient outcomes.
Jun 21, 2026	How to Buy Weed in Las Vegas: Dispensaries, Strip Rules, and What Every Tourist Needs to Know Getting Las Vegas cannabis rules wrong can mean fines, buying from fake “hemp shops,” or missing the city’s legal cannabis scene entirely. Nevada runs a substantial regulated market, and tourists can buy with nothing more than a valid ID. The smart move is not avoiding cannabis altogether. It is understanding exactly where, when, and how to buy and consume legally as a visitor.
Jun 20, 2026	Vermont Governor Signs Bill To Double Legal Marijuana Possession Limit And Allow Interstate Commerce Vermont’s governor has signed legislation that will allow adults over the age of 21 to legally possess twice as much marijuana as they could previously, enable interstate cannabis commerce and make other changes to rules for licensed businesses. Gov. Phil Scott (R) on Friday announced that he approved the large-scale cannabis regulatory reform bill, S. 278, which passed both chambers of the legislature last month.
Jun 20, 2026	Regulated, Untamed, and Built to Last: Inside Montana Cannabis How Montana built a legal cannabis market from a thin medical marijuana law, federal raids, ballot fights, and two decades of stubborn local pressure.
Jun 19, 2026	DEA Judge Issues Order Laying Out Process For Marijuana Rescheduling Hearing Starting This Month A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) judge has issued an initial order laying out basic rules for a hearing about the Trump administration’s cannabis rescheduling process that is set to start later this month.
Jun 19, 2026	Health officials warn visitors that cannabis in Washington can be stronger than in other parts of US WASHINGTON — The Washington Department of Health is warning FIFA visitors about the strength of cannabis in Washington. The state health agency says potency varies by product and recommends that users start with a low dose and go slow. The Washington DoH posted the recommendation on its Facebook page on Friday, along with a claim that it has seen an uptick in cannabis-related emergency room visits.
Jun 19, 2026	April 2026 Cannabis Sales Data: Regional Trends and National Growth Cannabis sales in Canada in April 2026 were $482.6 million, according to the latest figures from Statistics Canada. While cannabis sales have been showing signs of slowing, compared to exponential growth in the first few years of legalization, sales were still up 3% from April 2025 and up 5% from the previous month’s $466.8 million. Statistics Canada also updated its March 2026 sales figures, which were previously reported as $471.4 million. The country’s national statistical agency routinely adjusts these sales figures as new data comes in. Year-over-year and month-over-month increases were seen in every province except Newfoundland and Labrador, which showed a 2% decline compared to March, and Manitoba, which showed a decline of less than 1% MOM. Sales figures for the Northwest Territories and Nunavut were not available.
Jun 19, 2026	Cannabis Tax Revenue Hits $28 Billion Since First Legalization States that have legalized recreational cannabis have collected more than $28 billion in tax revenue over the past roughly 12 years, according to a new report from the cannabis policy reform group Marijuana Policy Project.
Jun 19, 2026	Health Canada Orders Ontario Cannabis Store to Remove Colourful Mural Health Canada has told a cannabis retailer about two hours north of Toronto that it must remove a large, colourful mural from the outside of its building. Treetz Cannabis, an independently run store in the community of Collingwood, had an artist paint a mural on the outside. The mural includes various characters painted in bright colours.
Jun 19, 2026	Fewer Colorado Teens Are Using Marijuana Now Than Before Legalization, State Study Shows, Refuting Opponents’ Core Argument Rates of marijuana use among Colorado teens continued to decline in 2025—and youth are also reporting significantly lower levels of access to cannabis—according to a biennial survey from state health officials.
Jun 19, 2026	The Power of Patient Stories: How Lived Experience is Shifting Medical Cannabis Stigma Despite medical cannabis being legal in the UK for almost eight years, many patients remain hesitant or unsure about whether it is right for them. While awareness of the legality and legitimacy of the medicinal use of cannabis has improved since 2018, misconceptions and stigma continue to shape public perceptions. Even though cannabis-based products for medicinal use are prescribed under a tightly regulated framework in the UK, many people still associate it primarily with recreational use.
Jun 19, 2026	How Cannabis Went Mainstream In Modern Culture Cannabis used to live on the edges of the culture. Now it sits near the center, in the music, the lifestyle content, and the everyday routines of millions of adults. The shift was gradual, then sudden. A generation that grew up online watched the old stigma quietly fall away. Part of that change is simply access. The rise of services that let someone find a Kush Delivery Near Me Now and order from the couch made cannabis feel ordinary, not illicit. Vancouver operators shipping across Canada helped set that pace. This piece looks at how cannabis went mainstream, and what that means for the people buying it.
Jun 19, 2026	DEA Names 7 Anti-Rescheduling Parties for Cannabis Hearing, Zero Pro Parties Those who thought the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) stacked the cannabis rescheduling deck in favor of prohibitionists under the Joe Biden administration may be in for more disappointment. Under a new administrative law judge hearing process that’s scheduled to begin June 29 – for the DEA to determine the merits of a proposed rule to reclassify cannabis as a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) – President Donald Trump’s administration will only entertain testimony from those who oppose the proposed rule.
Jun 19, 2026	In the cannabis industry, ‘culture’ is revealed in hard times Cannabis companies are eager - sometimes desperate - to show authentic "cannabis culture." But companies create and maintain culture through consistent actions, our columnist argues.
Jun 18, 2026	Nova Scotia Reports $138.8 Million in Cannabis Sales for Fiscal 2025/26 The Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation (NSLC) sold $138.8 million worth of cannabis in the fiscal year 2025/26, ending March 31, 2026, increasing 9.3% year over year. The NSLC reported total sales of $898.4 million, including $759.5 million in beverage alcohol sales. Total earnings for the agency for the year were $268.8 million, down 4.1% from the previous year. Cannabis transactions increased 4%, with the average basket value increasing 5% to $39.50. Nova Scotia cannabis sales increased 10.2% to $39.9 million. Nova Scotia cannabis accounts for 28.7% of all cannabis sales. The average price per gram for cannabis decreased by 0.3% to $5.70.
Jun 18, 2026	High Doses of CBD Superior to Placebo in Treating Neuropathic Pain Sydney, Australia: The daily use of CBD is safe and effective for treating chronic neuropathic pain, according to placebo-controlled clinical trial data published in the journal eClinical Medicine. Australian researchers assessed the consumption of oral THC versus a placebo among a cohort of 38 patients with spinal cord-related neuropathy. Study participants receiving the intervention used increasingly higher doses of oral CBD throughout the trial, with patients consuming 800 milligrams of CBD daily for the final four weeks of the study. Patients’ pain levels were assessed one week prior to the start of the trial and again at the conclusion of the study.
Jun 18, 2026	Study Shows Marijuana Extracts Notably Improve Symptoms of Cancer Patients A new clinical study indicates that cannabis-derived medicinal extracts may help reduce several symptoms associated with cancer, including difficulty sleeping and anxiety, though patient responses varied considerably depending on which cannabinoid profile worked best for each individual. The study team evaluated oil-based formulations with different proportions of cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) using a randomized, placebo-controlled trial that was triple-blinded to reduce bias. Overall results suggest that cannabis oil treatments produced meaningful relief in about half of participants, with improvements most often reported in sleep-related issues and closely connected symptoms. When outcomes were averaged across the study population, no single formulation consistently showed superior performance compared with the others.
Jun 18, 2026	Medical Cannabis in France: What the First Major Study Reveals About Its Actual Impact Four years after the launch of the national pilot program, a study commissioned by the ANSM finally provides concrete data on the effect of medical cannabis on treatments and the care pathways of French patients. The results, published in September 2025 by the AHeaD team at the Inserm Research Center at the University of Bordeaux and obtained by the Union of Industrialists for the Promotion of Hemp Extracts (UIVEC) following a CADA request, are encouraging.
Jun 18, 2026	Minnesota cannabis store owners lament testing backlog: "It's getting frustrating for everyone involved" One of five cannabis testing sites in Minnesota is shutting down, citing exorbitant costs as the reason. William Drexler is moving product he has around as he waits patiently for more. He says customers who come into Grey Area, on Grand Avenue in St. Paul, are looking for adult-use items, which he says are being held up by a backlog in testing.

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