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Snoop Dogg to Open Cannabis Social Club in Barcelona
LOS ANGELES – Snoop Dogg is expanding his European Cannabis ...
Grown Rogue Reports Q3 2026 Financial Results
MEDFORD – Grown Rogue International Inc. reported higher quarterly revenue ...
Planet 13 Reports Q3 2026 Financial Results
LAS VEGAS – Planet 13 Holdings Inc. reported substantially narrower ...
SNDL Secures EU-GMP Certification for Atholville Facility
EDMONTON – SNDL Inc. has received European Union Good Manufacturing Practice (EU-GMP) certification for its Atholville, New Brunswick, cultivation facility. The approval authorizes the site to produce and package medical Cannabis flower for regulated international ...
MariMed Reports Q3 2026 Financial Results
NORWOOD – MariMed Inc. reported a record revenue of $44.2 million for the third quarter, up 8.5% from a year earlier and 5.5% from the second quarter. The multustate Cannabis operator beat Wall Street consensus ...
HCN Live! CannaPitch Takes the Innovation Stage at MJBizCon 2026
Six women founders. Nine Sharks. HCN Live! CannaPitch brings live pitches, audience voting and a $10,000 business support prize package to MJBizCon 2026.
Four Ways to Raise Capital in Cannabis. Only One Comes With a Wedding Registry.
By Peter Ingersoll, CEO of Safe Harbor Equity Inc., for HCN Media Group SAN DIEGO- Raising capital will humble you. After more than four decades in finance, I can tell you it usually happens about ...
Loud Spectrum Introduces Flower Derived Terpenes
SANTA ANA – Loud Spectrum, a terpene formulator, announced the launch of Flower Derived Terpenes (FDT). The first product, named Alive, is made only from Cannabis flower and extracted within an hour of harvest. The ...
Curaleaf Clears Competition Law Reviews for Aurora Bid
STAMFORD – Curaleaf Holdings Inc. has received every competition law clearance required for its proposed acquisition of Aurora Cannabis Inc. Germany and Canada were the only jurisdictions that required one. On October 20, Germany's Federal ...
Compass Completes FDA Application for COMP360
LONDON / JERSEY CITY – Compass Pathways announced it has completed its New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for COMP360, a synthetic psilocybin formulation, for treatment-resistant depression (TRD). If ...
Compass Completes FDA Application for COMP360
LONDON / JERSEY CITY – Compass Pathways announced it has completed its New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for COMP360, a synthetic psilocybin formulation, for treatment-resistant depression (TRD). If ...
Vireo Growth Reports Q3 2026 Financial Results
MINNEAPOLIS – Vireo Growth Inc. reported third-quarter revenue of $253.7 million, up 177% from $91.7 million a year earlier. Acquisitions drove the increase. Cannabis sales reached $198.1 million, and an agricultural supply business the company ...
Vireo Completes FLUENT Acquisition
MINNEAPOLIS – Vireo Growth Inc. has closed its acquisition of FLUENT Corp., absorbing the vertically integrated multi-state Cannabis operator through a court-approved arrangement. Under the final terms, Vireo acquired all issued and outstanding common shares ...
Cannabis Buyers Are Price-Sensitive, Now The Federal Data Proves It
LOS ANGELES – The study, published this month in the peer-reviewed journal Addiction, was conducted by researchers at the University of California San Diego and received funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) ...
Argent BioPharma Licenses Proprietary Cannabis Genetics in Global Thai Phytomed Agreement
LONDON / PERTH – Argent BioPharma Ltd. has signed a decade-long exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with Thai Phytomed International (TPI), covering four proprietary Cannabis genotypes developed within the Argent group over several years. Under the ...
Jushi Reports Q3 2026 Financial Results
BOCA RATON – Jushi Holdings Inc. released its third-quarter 2026 financial results, reporting $70.5 million in revenue, a 7% YoY gain driven by record wholesale volume and retail growth across several key states, even as ...
Verano Reports Q3 2026 Financial Results
CHICAGO – Verano Holdings Corp. reported $212.4 million in third-quarter revenue, a 5% increase YoY. The figure came in modestly below analyst estimates of $216.4 million and trailed the $217.9 million posted last quarter, but ...
How to Survive MJBizCon: Parties, Meetings and Making It Worth the Trip
LAS VEGAS- An HCN guide to better connections, good parties and making the trip pay off long after Vegas Every year, sensible cannabis professionals travel to Las Vegas carrying three business objectives, two phone chargers ...
Could California Become Germany’s Next Recognizable Cannabis Origin?
LOS ANGELES- California’s products and ideas have been crossing the Atlantic for decades. Germans watch Hollywood films, listen to West Coast hip-hop, drink Californian wine and use technology developed in Silicon Valley. The cultural connection ...
Germany’s Medical Cannabis Market Is Becoming a Global Supply Opportunity
LOS ANGELES- Germany’s medical Cannabis market offers North American producers an opportunity that exists today: supplying prescription products through an established pharmaceutical channel. Its significance lies in the combination of rising imports, regulated distribution and ...
Curaleaf Refuses to Back Down
STAMFORD – One day after the Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) dismissed Curaleaf's application to shut down Aurora Cannabis's at-the-market (ATM) share issuance program, Curaleaf Holdings pushed back with a firm statement, insisting the ruling changes ...
Cannabis Users Trust Dispensary Staff Over Doctors, Federal Study Finds
LOS ANGELES – People who use Cannabis trust dispensary staff more than healthcare providers or government agencies for information about the substance, according to a study published in the journal Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy. ...
New York Cannabis Tops $4 Billion in Retail Sales
NEW YORK – Less than four years after the state welcomed its first licensed adult-use customer, New York's regulated market has crossed a major cumulative sales threshold, placing it among the top three recreational Cannabis ...
SNDL Reports Q3 2026 Financial and Operational Results
EDMONTON – SNDL Inc. released its third-quarter 2026 results, reporting record quarterly free cash flow of CA$20.0 million, up 19.5% YoY, and a return to positive adjusted operating income of $5.2 million, compared with a ...
Week in Review: Cannabis & Psychedelics Industry Highlights
LOS ANGELES – The Cannabis and Psychedelics industries closed out the past fortnight with a full plate of international boardrooms debates, M&A combat, a federal rescheduling docket moving toward a recommended decision, ballot momentum heading ...
Alberta Regulator Sides with Aurora, Dismisses Curaleaf’s ATM Challenge
EDMONTON – The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) dismissed Curaleaf Holdings' application to halt Aurora Cannabis's at-the-market (ATM) share-sale program, delivering a regulatory setback to the American Cannabis company's hostile takeover campaign. The ruling confirmed that ...
Safe Harbor and Opifex Media Set Terms for a Shared Nasdaq Future
DENVER — SHF Holdings, Inc., which operates as Safe Harbor Financial, has signed a non-binding term sheet with Opifex Media Inc. to combine the two companies under one publicly traded parent. Opifex, a Beverly Hills-based ...
New Mexico Pushes to Open Medical Psilocybin Program
SANTA FE – When Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed Senate Bill 219 into law in April 2025, New Mexico became the third U.S. state to authorize medical psilocybin, with a statutory deadline of December 31, ...
DEA Judge Admits GAO Report, Rejects Prohibitionists’ Attempt to Reopen Cannabis Rescheduling Hearings
WASHINGTON – Chief Administrative Law Judge Derek Julius admitted a Government Accountability Office report into the DEA's marijuana rescheduling record and turned down the other requests opponents had filed to slow the case. Opponents had ...
DEA Calls Cannabis Rehearing Bid a Prohibitionists’ “Fishing Expedition”
WASHINGTON – The Drug Enforcement Administration submitted a new brief, urging Chief Administrative Law Judge Derek C. Julius to reject a request to reopen the federal marijuana rescheduling hearing, calling the demand an "obvious fishing ...
November Midterms: Cannabis at the Ballot Box
LOS ANGELES – NuggMD conducted the survey, drawing on interviews with 654 Cannabis consumers across states with existing legal markets. Here’s what the numbers say: 78% of respondents surveyed stated that a candidate's position on ...
PROFILE: Jonathan Jacobsen: Building The Export Bridge To Europe
LOS ANGELES - Many cannabis businesses were created to grow more cannabis Jonathan Jacobsen is pursuing a more complicated objective: building the regulated infrastructure required to move medical cannabis between countries. After acquiring High Ground ...
North Carolina Voters Overwhelmingly Support Cannabis Legalization
RALEIGH – A SurveyUSA poll found that nearly three-quarters of North Carolina adults support legalizing medical Cannabis, while a clear majority backs adult-use reform as well. The survey covered 900 registered voters with a credibility ...
The Emerging ”Export Bridge” Between Canadian Cannabis and European Medicine
LOS ANGELES- Canada has no shortage of cannabis. Europe has no shortage of demand. The difficult part is connecting the two through a pharmaceutical supply chain that can satisfy regulators, protect product quality and deliver ...
Rubicon Secures Strategic Capital to Upgrade Pacifica Facility
VANCOUVER – Rubicon Organics Inc. has closed a non-brokered strategic private placement with Siwash Rock Investments, Inc. Under the terms of the transaction, Siwash Rock Investments acquired 6,666,667 common shares at $0.45 per share, yielding ...
Curaleaf Accuses Aurora of Locking Out Its Highest Bidder
STAMFORD – Curaleaf Holdings Inc. came out swinging Monday morning, publicly challenging Aurora Cannabis's latest recommendation that shareholders REJECT its enhanced takeover proposal. In a statement, outlined in the official press release, Curaleaf Chairman and ...
Seed Junky Partners with Trulieve to Bring Premium Genetics to Pennsylvania
LOS ANGELES – Seed Junky Genetics announced the expansion, confirming a new exclusive licensing agreement that covers Pennsylvania. The companies had already collaborated in Florida for several years. Under the updated terms, Trulieve Cannabis Corp. ...
Pre-Rolls and Multipacks Gain Momentum Across the US, BDSA Finds
LOUISVILLE – According to BDSA's latest retail tracking, U.S. pre-roll sales reached $4.4 billion over the 12 months ending July 2026, up 13% year over year, outpacing vape (up 6%) and flower by a wider ...
