Weekly cannabis news
Regulation, medical markets, and the decisions shaping the sector.
Florida awarded 22 new medical cannabis licenses, but the first state update after the awards shows none operating yet, shifting attention from supply growth to financing, construction, and staged approval deadlines.
Read moreState regulators have begun drafting rules for medical dispensaries that could operate without owning cultivation and manufacturing, opening a new path into Massachusetts’ medical cannabis market.
Read moreThe milestone gives Minnesota its first solid measure of legal demand and shows a market moving from launch scarcity toward faster supply growth, tougher competition, and a clearer tax contribution.
Read moreOhio has switched on a new control point for cannabis sales. Since September 11, 2026, cultivators and processors in the state cannot sell cannabis in packaging meant for direct customer sale unless the Division of Cannabis...
Read moreAustralia’s medicinal-cannabis export trade moved into clearer commercial scale in 2025. The latest country-by-country tables from the Office of Drug Control show Australia exported 6,780 kilograms of cannabis in 2025, up from...
Read moreThailand has answered the question that mattered most once its tighter cannabis rules arrived: old-model flower shops are not being forced to close overnight, but they are being moved onto a timed exit path.
Read moreGreat Britain’s CBD food market has reached its first real decision point. In papers prepared for its September 2026 board meeting and updated on 14 September, the Food Standards Agency said it will recommend ministers authorise...
Read moreConnecticut has formally loosened one of the more rigid staffing rules in its medical cannabis system. In guidance updated on Sept. 3, the state said licensed pharmacists no longer have to be employed for at least 20 hours a week...
Read moreNew Jersey’s latest cannabis licensing update shows a simple change in where the state’s market is getting stuck. The problem is no longer issuing initial approvals. It is getting those provisional approvals over the line into...
Read moreThe Netherlands has put a hard date on the end of one of Europe’s oldest state-run medicinal-cannabis export channels. In a 3 July policy letter, the Dutch health minister said exports by the Bureau voor Medicinale Cannabis will...
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