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Rhode Island Moves to Restart Cannabis Retail Licensing
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island officials are taking steps to revive a stalled process for issuing new retail Cannabis licenses. A federal judge blocked the effort earlier this year over concerns about state residency rules. Lawmakers ...
Curaleaf Opens Free CPD Training Portal for UK Medical Cannabis Prescribers
LONDON – Medical Cannabis has been legally prescribable in the UK since 2018. The endocannabinoid system, the biological mechanism at the core of how cannabinoid therapies work, still gets barely a mention in most British ...
Germany Puts “GMP Washing” in Medical Cannabis on Notice
BERLIN – Germany's Hessian State Office for Health and Care (HLfGP) published a formal guidance document targeting the widespread practice of "GMP washing", i.e. importing Cannabis flowers from third-country cultivators under Good Agricultural and Collection ...
Rhode Island Moves to Restart Cannabis Retail Licensing
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island officials are taking steps to revive a stalled process for issuing new retail Cannabis licenses. A federal judge blocked the effort earlier this year over concerns about state residency rules. Lawmakers ...
Curaleaf Opens Free CPD Training Portal for UK Medical Cannabis Prescribers
LONDON – Medical Cannabis has been legally prescribable in the UK since 2018. The endocannabinoid system, the biological mechanism at the core of how cannabinoid therapies work, still gets barely a mention in most British ...
Germany Puts “GMP Washing” in Medical Cannabis on Notice
BERLIN – Germany's Hessian State Office for Health and Care (HLfGP) published a formal guidance document targeting the widespread practice of "GMP washing", i.e. importing Cannabis flowers from third-country cultivators under Good Agricultural and Collection ...
Week in Review: Cannabis & Psychedelics Industry Highlights
LOS ANGELES – The past fortnight delivered the most jam-packed period of meaningful news our sector has seen in 2026. Federal rescheduling hearings opened. Virginia finally locked in its retail framework. Definium posted the cleanest ...
Rhode Island Moves to Restart Cannabis Retail Licensing
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island officials are taking steps to revive a stalled process for issuing new retail Cannabis licenses. A federal judge blocked the effort earlier this year over concerns about state residency rules. Lawmakers ...
Curaleaf Opens Free CPD Training Portal for UK Medical Cannabis Prescribers
LONDON – Medical Cannabis has been legally prescribable in the UK since 2018. The endocannabinoid system, the biological mechanism at the core of how cannabinoid therapies work, still gets barely a mention in most British ...
Germany Puts “GMP Washing” in Medical Cannabis on Notice
BERLIN – Germany's Hessian State Office for Health and Care (HLfGP) published a formal guidance document targeting the widespread practice of "GMP washing", i.e. importing Cannabis flowers from third-country cultivators under Good Agricultural and Collection ...
Rhode Island Moves to Restart Cannabis Retail Licensing
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island officials are taking steps to revive a stalled process for issuing new retail Cannabis licenses. A federal judge blocked the effort earlier this year over concerns about state residency rules. Lawmakers ...
Curaleaf Opens Free CPD Training Portal for UK Medical Cannabis Prescribers
LONDON – Medical Cannabis has been legally prescribable in the UK since 2018. The endocannabinoid system, the biological mechanism at the core of how cannabinoid therapies work, still gets barely a mention in most British ...
Germany Puts “GMP Washing” in Medical Cannabis on Notice
BERLIN – Germany's Hessian State Office for Health and Care (HLfGP) published a formal guidance document targeting the widespread practice of "GMP washing", i.e. importing Cannabis flowers from third-country cultivators under Good Agricultural and Collection ...
Week in Review: Cannabis & Psychedelics Industry Highlights
LOS ANGELES – The past fortnight delivered the most jam-packed period of meaningful news our sector has seen in 2026. Federal rescheduling hearings opened. Virginia finally locked in its retail framework. Definium posted the cleanest ...
Lazear Advises Medical Cannabis Company Organic Remedies on ESOP Transaction
COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 6, 2026 – Organic Remedies, one of Pennsylvania's leading medical cannabis companies, has completed its transition to 100% employee ownership through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), marking another milestone in the ...
Q2 2026: The Quarter That Counted For Psychedelics
LOS ANGELES – Q2 2026 gave the psychedelic medicine sector the quarter that practitioners, investors, and regulators had been building up for years. Clinical programs delivered Phase 3 results, the White House signed an executive ...
California’s Legal Cannabis Market Holds Steady at Midyear
LOS ANGELES – California's licensed retailers generated $323.1 million in Cannabis sales in June, pushing the state's first-half total to nearly $1.95 billion. The June figure landed almost exactly in line with the roughly $322 ...
High Tide Tightens Ownership Guardrails with New Two-Part Rights Plan
CALGARY – High Tide Inc. announced that its board of directors approved a Temporary Shareholder Rights Plan and an Amended and Restated Shareholder Rights Plan, both executed with Olympia Trust Company as Rights Agent, dated ...
Splash Beverage Group Takes Global License on CannEpil, Targeting Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
FORT LAUDERDALE – Splash Beverage Group Inc. announced it has secured an exclusive worldwide license to CannEpil®, a cannabinoid-based investigational treatment for drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE), through an agreement with Argent BioPharma Limited, the Australian-listed clinical-stage ...
Legal Cannabis Generates Billions, Reaches New Highs Across Key States
LOS ANGELES - When Colorado and Washington launched the first legal adult-use Cannabis markets in January 2014, the debate was primarily about public safety and social policy. Twelve years later, the fiscal argument has taken ...
Cannabis Retailers Face Engagement Gap in Loyalty Programs
LOS ANGELES – A new report published by Sweed, a tech company that provides an all-in-one software ecosystem for Cannabis dispensaries, draws on Q1 2026 data from 2.1 million shoppers and $452.5 million in retail ...
Virginia Lawmakers Enact Plan for Legal Cannabis Sales
RICHMOND – The Virginia Senate and House of Delegates gave final approval Monday to a budget bill that legalizes recreational Cannabis sales. Lawmakers adopted Gov. Abigail Spanberger's proposed amendments in full, meaning the measure is ...
Tilray Acquires HelloMD to Build Out Canadian Medical Cannabis Network
NEW YORK – Tilray Brands Inc. has agreed to acquire HelloMD Corporation’s Canadian medical Cannabis assets, in a deal the companies say will build a fully vertically integrated medical Cannabis structure in Canada and add ...
DEA Opens Hearing on Adult-Use Cannabis Federal Schedule III Status
ARLINGTON – The Drug Enforcement Administration began hearings Monday on a proposal to reclassify Cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), a proceeding officials and advocates on both sides ...
Helus Pharma Advances Phase 3 Trial for Novel Therapy in MDD
NEW YORK – Helus Pharma, the business name now used by Cybin Inc., announced that enrollment in its APPROACH Phase 3 trial has passed the 86% mark. The trial is testing HLP003, the company's lead ...
