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State data show Minnesota has licensed 1,837 lower-potency hemp edible retailers but only 13 cannabis retailers, leaving most near-term legal access in the hemp channel while adult-use storefront growth stays constrained.
Minnesota’s legal retail buildout is not being carried, for now, by adult-use cannabis stores. It is being carried by hemp sellers.
Read articleAustralia’s medicines regulator has sued Better Leaf, Better Life Aussie and their sole director over alleged medicinal-cannabis advertising, turning a long-running compliance warning into a court test that could reshape how clinics and telehealth operators find patients.
Australia’s medicines regulator escalated its campaign against medicinal-cannabis promotion on 4 August, announcing that it has started Federal Court proceedings against Better Leaf Pty Ltd, Better Life Aussie Pty Ltd and the companies’ sole director. The agency says the...
Read articleBoston 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.
Boston’s August 5 hearing arrives with a city study that puts resident-only retail demand at about 65 stores
Read articleIllinois 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.
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 cannabis, not on the sales price per ounce.
Read articleHealth 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.
Canada’s legal cannabis market is still selling a lot of product. It is also still throwing a striking amount of flower away.
Read articleCzech 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.
Czechia’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 medicines regulator, SÚKL.
Read articleA final comment hearing on July 30 could lock in Massachusetts rules that let cannabis operators grow from three stores to six, with the sixth store reserved for social-equity businesses during the first year after applications reopen.
Massachusetts 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 retailer licenses to six. The Cannabis Control...
Read articleA health-insurance reform approved in Berlin removes dried medical cannabis flower from public reimbursement while leaving extracts and certain cannabinoid medicines covered, forcing a rapid shift in Germany’s biggest medical-cannabis sales channel.
Germany 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 system, and the Federal Health Ministry said the...
Read articleMinnesota’s latest license data show the state’s first adult-use cannabis market is being shaped mainly by microbusinesses that can grow, make, and sell under one license, not by standalone stores.
Minnesota’s first adult-use cannabis market is not taking shape around standalone stores. It is taking shape around small integrated operators.
Read articleMissouri is closing applications for the third and last constitutionally required cannabis microbusiness round, with at least 77 licenses planned and a temporary rule change that cuts one upfront step for applicants.
Missouri 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 microbusiness licenses, the largest tranche yet, and...
Read articleNew York said 49 approved cultivation expansions could add about 97,700 pounds of dry cannabis, giving the market its clearest official sign yet that supply may be catching up as more legal stores open.
New York has finally published a supply-side number the market can use. At the July 2 meeting of the Cannabis Control Board, the state said 49 canopy-expansion amendments had been fully approved since March. In the state’s own estimate, those approvals represent about 1.51...
Read articleState data show New Jersey cannabis flower prices fell sharply in June even as legal recreational sales stayed above $115 million, increasing pressure on retailers and growers in a market that is still adding stores.
New Jersey’s latest official market deck shows that adult-use cannabis flower is still getting cheaper at a notable pace. The average price for bud and flower reached $6.51 per gram in June 2026, down 21.8 percent from $8.33 a year earlier, according to slides presented for the...
Read articleMassachusetts says 13 municipalities have already won waivers to block adult-use cannabis delivery, giving delivery businesses and customers their first clear view of where the state’s new default-on system still stops at the town line.
Thirteen Massachusetts municipalities have already blocked adult-use delivery under the new statewide rule
Read articleNew Australian data show far more medicinal-cannabis licence changes than new licence applications, suggesting the market’s upstream growth is now being shaped more by existing operators reworking approvals than by fresh entrants joining the system.
Australia’s medicinal-cannabis licensing data has shifted from a story about market entry to a story about market adjustment.
Read articleAustralia’s veteran medicines payer says funded medicinal-cannabis use rose to 12,000 patients last financial year, just as older prescriptions must be moved onto a tighter reimbursement framework by 31 August 2026.
Australia’s Department of Veterans’ Affairs has disclosed that 12,000 Veteran Card holders accessed medicinal cannabis through its medicines program in fiscal year 2024-25, up 50% from 8,000 a year earlier. That is a large jump in a publicly funded patient pool, and it turns...
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