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| Sep 25, 2025 |
Ongoing cannabis worker strikes in two states are longest in industry history
Separate, ongoing strikes at cannabis businesses in two states are now the longest work stoppages in the history of the country’s $32 billion legal marijuana industry. |
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| Sep 22, 2025 |
Liquor and cannabis warehouses join BCGEU strike
The union representing thousands of provincial government workers is once again expanding its job action. |
| Sep 19, 2025 |
PoliticsTrump DOJ Asks Federal Court To Dismiss Lawsuit From D.C. Hemp Business Challenging Federal Ban On Local Cannabis Sales The Trump administration is asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit from a Washington, D.C. hemp business challenging the federal government over a congressional budget restriction that prevents local officials from establishing and regulating a retail marijuana market. |
| Sep 19, 2025 |
Cannabis Crossroads: Record US Demand Meets Federal Gridlock The US cannabis industry is booming at the state level, but stalled in Washington, leaving businesses caught between record consumer demand and federal barriers that stifle growth, financing and research. |
| Sep 18, 2025 |
The New War on Weed
Why are states with loose marijuana laws arresting people for selling the drug? |
| Sep 18, 2025 |
Germany: No new import permits for dried cannabis in 2025 Germany’s Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) tells B2B trade magazine Kraut Invest that the current demand estimate for cannabis for medical purposes in Germany, 122 tons, has already been exhausted. No new permits can be issued for dried cannabis. |
| Sep 16, 2025 |
Minnesota Dispensaries Launch Adult-Use Sales Under State Program
Several Minnesota cannabis retailers will commence adult-use sales Sept. 16 and 17, marking 840 days since Gov. Tim Walz signed legislation to legalize a commercial marketplace for those 21 years and older. |
| Sep 16, 2025 |
Calgary allows cannabis sales at all-ages events |
| Sep 16, 2025 |
Tokelahoma's Cautionary Tale: How Weed Legalization Went Wrong in a Deep Red State
Higher costs, tougher enforcement, cratering prices and rampant criminal activity have eviscerated the once-booming medical marijuana market. |
| Sep 16, 2025 |
'Got to go!': City councillor succeeds in fight to paint over cannabis shop billboard A London city councillor has succeeded in covering over a painted billboard he felt had "to go." Peter Cuddy said the sign for a cannabis shop will soon be replaced by a community mural. |
| Sep 16, 2025 |
Does federal marijuana prohibition mean cannabis workers can’t unionize? A Michigan cannabis company is attempting to thwart a unionization effort using a novel tactic: convincing the Trump administration that cannabis workers don’t enjoy federal labor law protections because cannabis is illegal under federal law. |
| Sep 16, 2025 |
Does Cannabis Use Reduce Alcohol Consumption? There have been conflicting results from studies examining this — some indicated cannabis co-use is associated with reductions in alcohol consumption, others an increase or no change at all. |
| Sep 15, 2025 |
Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill Deserves Lawmakers’ Support, Letter From ACLU And Other Groups Says A coalition of drug policy reform and civil rights organizations sent letter urging members of the U.S. House of Representatives to cosponsor a recently filed bill to federally legalize marijuana and promote equity. |
| Sep 15, 2025 |
How to Protect Your Outdoor Cannabis Crops From Pests
Mason Walker is stressed out. With the already intense pressures of running his cannabis farm in Oregon, he’s facing another challenge this season: more aphids threatening to chew up his plants at East Fork Cultivars. |
| Sep 13, 2025 |
Police seize more than 8,000 cannabis plants from area grow-op Police executed a search warrant at the Canal Road site earlier this week; plants, dried cannabis and packaging material were found |
| Sep 13, 2025 |
Cannabis generates $1 billion a year for New Brunswick GDP, chamber study says New report says the industry created more than 9,000 direct and indirect jobs in the province |
| Sep 11, 2025 |
House GOP Moves Forward on Blocking Trump Administration’s Power to Reschedule Cannabis A month after President Donald Trump confirmed that his administration is considering rescheduling cannabis to a less restrictive federal status, his GOP counterparts in the U.S. House are now attempting to strip those executive powers. |
| Sep 11, 2025 |
Frequent Cannabis Users Show No Driving Impairment After Two-Day Break Scientists from the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR) at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that, in the largest such study to date, frequent cannabis users did not display impairments in driving performance after at least 48 hours of abstinence. The new findings have implications for public health as well as the enforcement of laws related to cannabis and driving. |
| Sep 11, 2025 |
Huge legal cannabis farm told to cut smell or risk closure A massive legal cannabis farm in the Netherlands has been told to reduce the odor coming from its facility or risk closure after more than 2,000 complaints from hundreds of residents, according to a regional Dutch environmental agency. |
| Sep 9, 2025 |
Are cannabis consumers more loyal to brands, or products? In most consumer packaged goods industries, brands drive decisions. Shoppers walk into a store looking for Coca-Cola, Nike, or Tide, and if those brands aren’t available, many will leave without buying. Cannabis retail tells a different story. Here, product loyalty can often outweigh brand loyalty, and the distinction is shaping the way dispensaries and producers compete. |