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(2026) - Chronological (1568 items)

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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.
Sep 18, 2026	Poll: Majority of Americans Don’t Think Cannabis Use is Dangerous A majority of Americans don’t believe cannabis use is dangerous, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports poll which found 37% of adults surveyed believed cannabis is harmful. Just 13% of those polled said cannabis is “very dangerous,” while 55% of respondents said cannabis is “not dangerous” with 27% saying cannabis is “not at all dangerous.” Rasmussen asked 1,234 American adults “How dangerous is marijuana use?”
Sep 18, 2026	Cannabis Terpenes Explained: Complete Guide to Myrcene, Limonene, Pinene, Caryophyllene, Linalool and More Terpenes are among the most important, and most misunderstood, compounds in marijuana. They are responsible for much of the citrus, pine, floral, spicy, earthy and fruity aroma associated with different marijuana varieties. But terpenes are more than scent molecules. Many have biological activity of their own, and researchers are increasingly examining whether particular terpenes can influence the effects of THC, CBD and other cannabinoids.
Sep 18, 2026	US Lawmakers File Bill to Allow Cannabis Users Access to Federal Employment, Security Clearances Americans who use cannabis could soon be eligible for federal employment, including for jobs that involve U.S. security clearances, under new legislation in Washington. U.S. House Reps. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, introduced the Cannabis Users’ Restoration of Eligibility (CURE) Act on Sept. 17, legislation that aims to prevent current or prior cannabis use from becoming standalone grounds for denying certain work opportunities within the federal government.
Sep 18, 2026	Federal Court Denies Motion to Halt Marijuana Rescheduling Process A federal court has declined to temporarily suspend the Trump administration’s decision to move state-legal medical cannabis from Schedule 1 to 3, allowing the reclassification to remain in place while a broader legal challenge continues. A three-member bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit issued its ruling September 9, rejecting a request brought by MMJ International Holdings and the NDASA. The organizations had sought an emergency stay of an April 22 directive signed by Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Sep 18, 2026	How The Netherlands’ Cannabis Pilot Is Reshaping Coffeeshops’ Supply Chain A new study on the Netherlands' pilot to allow coffeeshops to sell cannabis through a legal supply chain has shed light on how the industry is reacting to this new way of selling cannabis. The study highlights that the stakeholders involved—including municipalities, coffeeshops, growers, consumers, and people living near coffeeshops—are responding positively to the pilot, with some shifts in consumer behavior and sales dynamics. However, the illicit market is far from disappearing.
Sep 18, 2026	Quebec’s Cannabis Industry Demands Apology from Premier Representatives from Quebec’s cannabis industry say they want an apology from Premier Christine Fréchette for comments she made in a recent debate. As reported by TVA Nouvelles and the CBC, during a debate for the riding of Trois-Rivières, Fréchette criticized a rival candidate, disparagingly saying the only company their party brought to the region was a cannabis company.
Sep 18, 2026	Argentina Opens Its Market to Hemp Flowers Containing 1% of THC The new regulatory framework, established by l’Regulatory Agency for the Hemp and Medicinal Cannabis Industry (ARICCAME) through the resolution 69/2026, expands rules that previously focused primarily on seeds, grains and fiber. It now covers the flowers of Cannabis sativa, biomass and any other harvested plant material intended for medical, nutritional, cosmetic, veterinary, industrial and research applications. This measure marks the final step in a regulatory process that Argentina has put in place since the legalization of industrial hemp and medical cannabis in 2022.
Sep 18, 2026	Legalizing Marijuana In Iowa Is A ‘No-Brainer’ Move To Help Raise Revenue, Democratic Candidate For Governor Says Legalizing marijuana is a “no-brainer” move to help ward off a “fiscal time bomb” in Iowa that could otherwise lead to cuts in funding for education and public safety in the state, the Democratic candidate for governor says. “I think we should treat it the way we treat alcohol. That seems like a no-brainer to me, right?” Rob Sand, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, said at a town hall event in Dallas County on Wednesday in response to a question from a voter who said Iowa is “losing money” to other states that have legalized cannabis.
Sep 18, 2026	People Couldn’t Be Denied Federal Jobs Or Security Clearances Due To Past Marijuana Use Under New Bipartisan Bill In Congress Bipartisan congressional lawmakers have introduced a bill to protect people from being denied federal employment or security clearances due to past marijuana use—and to provide relief for people who have already lost opportunities due to cannabis. Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Zachary Nunn (R-IA) introduced the legislation—titled the “Cannabis Users’ Restoration of Eligibility (CURE) Act”—on Thursday.

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