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Illinois 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.
Read moreCzech pharmacies dispensed 126,935 grams of medical cannabis in the first quarter of 2026, a pace that suggests recent prescribing and reimbursement changes are turning into steady pharmacy demand.
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Illinois 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.
Read moreMissouri is in the final day of applications for the third and last cannabis microbusiness licensing round required by the state constitution. The Department of Health and Senior Services says the round will issue at least 77...
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