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Boston goes into an August 5 cannabis hearing with a city-backed study showing resident demand supports about 65 retail licenses while 61 were already somewhere in the approval pipeline months earlier, tightening the room for additional stores before most approved sites have even opened.
Read moreIllinois medical cannabis cultivation centers now calculate the state’s 7 percent cultivation tax from the taxable receipts on their first sale, a shift that takes effect in the July 2026 return due August 20.
Read moreHealth Canada’s latest data shows licensed producers destroyed a record share of bulk dried cannabis in early 2026 even as Canadian retail sales stayed near C$482 million a month, underscoring a persistent mismatch between what is being grown and what the legal market will absorb.
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Boston is moving into a new phase of its cannabis market. The city’s revised 2026 retail saturation study says resident demand alone can support roughly 65 cannabis retail licenses citywide. As of November 2025, 61 retail...
Read moreIllinois has changed how it taxes medical cannabis cultivation. Since July 1, 2026, licensed medical cultivation centers owe the state’s 7 percent cultivation privilege tax on taxable receipts from the first sale of medical...
Read moreCanada’s legal cannabis market is still selling a lot of product. It is also still throwing a striking amount of flower away.
Read moreCzechia’s medical-cannabis channel is moving at a scale that matters. Pharmacies dispensed 126,935 grams in the first quarter of 2026, according to KOPAC’s extraction of official monthly dispensing data published by the Czech...
Read moreMassachusetts is at the last formal comment stage before making a major change to who can scale in its adult-use cannabis market. Chapter 65, the state law enacted in April, raises the retail ownership cap from three marijuana...
Read moreGermany has turned a spring proposal into a concrete market change. On 10 July, the Bundestag approved the GKV-Beitragssatzstabilisierungsgesetz, a law aimed at stabilising contribution rates in the statutory health insurance...
Read moreMinnesota’s first adult-use cannabis market is not taking shape around standalone stores. It is taking shape around small integrated operators.
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