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| Mar 13, 2026 |
What Canada Owes Its Veterans: Getting Medical Cannabis Reimbursement Right “When they have been called to serve, Canadian Armed Forces members have always answered. As Canadians, we must fulfil our responsibility to them in turn.” Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke those words to mark Veterans’ Week last year. That responsibility includes ensuring that the healthcare programs Veterans rely on are grounded in sound clinical policy. One of those programs is Cannabis for Medical Purposes (CMP), which reimburses Veterans for cannabis prescribed to treat a wide range of health issues that often cannot be effectively treated otherwise. On April 1, Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) is set to change this reimbursement, benchmarking coverage against a recreational market average instead. This new pricing model raises legitimate concerns because it fails to accurately reflect the medical realities of the Veterans' program and, ultimately, risks undermining treatment continuity for tens of thousands of Veterans. |
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| Mar 12, 2026 |
CBSA seizes 1,066 kg of Cannabis in the Greater Toronto Area From January 1 to February 28, 2026, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), in conjunction with RCMP Toronto Airport Detachment (TAD), intercepted over 1,000 kg of illegal cannabis from travellers and commercial shipments leaving the country. |
| Mar 12, 2026 |
Consumers Show No Impairment in Their Next-Day Driving Performance Despite Residual THC Blood Levels Cannabis consumers exhibit no next-day driving impairment despite having trace levels of THC in their blood, according to driving simulator data published in the Journal of Cannabis Research. Canadian investigators assessed consumers’ psychomotor performance some 12 hours after they last inhaled cannabis. Their performance was compared to that of subjects with no history of marijuana use. |
| Mar 12, 2026 |
Virginia Lawmakers Advance to Governor’s Desk Bill Protecting Parents That Use Marijuana Legislators in Virginia have approved legislation to safeguard the parental rights of individuals who legally use cannabis under state law. The proposal, introduced by Delegate Nadarius Clark, received approval from both the House and the Senate after revisions were added. The measure now awaits a decision from Governor Abigail Spanberger. |
| Mar 12, 2026 |
New Hampshire: Senate Republicans Kill House-Backed Adult-Use Marijuana Legalization Bill Members of the New Hampshire Senate voted largely along party lines to defeat House-backed legislation that sought to legalize the possession, home-cultivation, and retail sale of cannabis for adults. |
| Mar 12, 2026 |
Growing to Wash: Why "Washers" Are Changing Cannabis When I first started writing this, I thought it would be a quick explainer of what people mean when they say they’re “growing to wash.” The more time I spent talking to hashmakers and growers who live in the ice water world, the more I realized this isn’t just a technique. It’s a different mindset. |
| Mar 12, 2026 |
Is the German Cannabis Boom Slowing Down, or Simply Normalising? Germany's cannabis imports, according to the latest figures from BfArM, nearly tripled in size in 2025, cementing it beyond any doubt as the engine behind Europe’s medical cannabis boom. Imports surpassed their already increased quota to hit 200 tonnes last year, up from just 72 tonnes in 2024, which was itself a record-breaking year. |
| Mar 12, 2026 |
US (RI): Slow rollout of new cannabis stores is about to get even slower The Cannabis Control Commission is contemplating slowing the already long-delayed awarding of 20 new retail cannabis dispensary licenses after local industry stakeholders raised concerns that new dispensaries will hurt their profit margins. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
Oklahoma cannabis operators notch win in federal court against state Oklahoma medical marijuana operators are escalating a legal fight against Gov. Kevin Stitt and other state authorities, whom they claim are waging a deliberate effort to shut them down. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
Hawaii Senate Passes Bill To Allow Medical Marijuana Use By Seriously Ill Patients In Health Facilities The Hawaii Senate has passed a bill to allow qualifying patients to access medical marijuana at health facilities. After receiving a favorable report in committee last week, the legislation from Sen. Joy San Buenaventura (D) advanced through the full chamber in a unanimous 25-0 vote on Tuesday as part of the consent calendar. A House companion version of the proposal has also been moving through the process this session. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
After a Decade of Growth, Legal Cannabis Declined in 2025 America's legal cannabis market, both medical and recreational, had been enjoying years of growth. But last year the streak ended. In 2025, total U.S. cannabis revenues were estimated to fall between $28.6 billion and $29.6 billion. That's down from about $30 billion in 2024. Moreover, it's the first time the country's cannabis market has failed to grow since 2014. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
Ontario cannabis stores forced to drop the word "dispensary", despite consumer preferences Some cannabis retailers in Ontario say they are being told to remove any use of the word "dispensary" from their websites and online storefronts. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
Marijuana May Be A 'Gateway To Women's Orgasm' In Sexual Health Treatment, Scientific Analysis Finds Marijuana may be a "gateway," but not in the stigmatized way it’s been portrayed by prohibitionists as a stepping stone to other drugs. Rather, a growing body of scientific literature signals cannabis is a “gateway to women’s orgasm” that could hold significant therapeutic potential in the treatment of female orgasmic disorder/difficulty (FOD), a new research paper says. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
Congressional Lawmakers Approve Youth Safety Bill That Could Complicate Marijuana Businesses’ Online Outreach A congressional committee has approved a bill aimed at protecting children online that could create complications for advertisers trying to promote legal marijuana and other regulated substances. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
The Best Rolling Papers on Earth, According to High Times Readers Rolling papers aren’t props. They’re the instrument that sets the pace and feel of a session. Whole towns learned to work with fiber, water and heat the way a luthier tunes a guitar. You can see it in the watermark, in how the seam seals, in how the ember travels without racing or stalling. Today’s factories use tools to keep every sheet the same thickness, the same airflow and the same clean cut. Small hand rooms still make special formats where a person’s eye and touch matter. Soldiers carried papers in field kits. Artists tucked giant sheets into record sleeves to make a point. The paper is part of the ritual, part of the memory of a room, and why a well-rolled joint feels like a small act of craft shared between friends. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
Adult-use laws may displace illicit cannabis markets Adopting recreational cannabis laws, beyond only medical cannabis laws, may help reduce the size of the illegal cannabis market in U.S. states, reports a new study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The study is among the first to comprehensively examine the dynamics of the illegal cannabis market using law enforcement seizure data. The findings are published in the International Journal of Drug Policy. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
New York Regulators Say Marijuana Sales Could Surpass California's New York's legal marijuana industry has started 2026 with strong momentum, following a year of rapid growth in 2025. State officials say sales during the opening weeks of the year suggest the market could reach new highs before the year ends. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
Cannabis company calls on Ottawa to postpone controversial medical cannabis cuts for veterans Aurora Cannabis is calling on the federal government to postpone upcoming changes to compensation rates for medical cannabis for veterans. Canada’s Budget 2025, released in November, included measures to adjust medical cannabis benefits for the RCMP and Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) from a maximum of $8.50 a gram to a new limit of $6.00 a gram. |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
People raise treaty rights, medical access concerns over Nova Scotia's proposed cannabis law changes Speakers appearing before a Nova Scotia legislature committee urged the province to work with the Mi’kmaq and reconsider enforcement actions against unregulated cannabis stores as lawmakers look at amendments to the Cannabis Control Act. |
| Mar 10, 2026 |
Kentucky Cannabis Businesses Roll With the Punches, Limited Products in Medical Program’s Rollout Kentucky legalized medical cannabis on Jan. 1, 2025, but with the usual hiccups any new bureaucratic system endures, today’s roughly 20,000 patients and 19 businesses are in sync with one unified opinion: Open the door to as many formats as possible, especially in light of the program’s no-smoking law. |