Late last month lawmakers in Spain considered a cannabis reform measure, and while the measure did not pass, Spain’s emerging legal cannabis industry will undergo a fairly substantial expansion this year regardless. The Spanish Medicines Agency recently notified the International Narcotics Control Board that it plans to (roughly) quadruple the amount of legal medical cannabis […]
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The push to legalize adult-use cannabis in Germany received a significant boost today, with reports surfacing that the nation’s health minister has received “very good feedback” from the European Commission regarding his plan to legalize cannabis for adult use in Germany and launch regulated adult-use sales. Minister Karl Lauterbach reportedly stated that “in the next few weeks” […]
Missouri’s recreational market just launched in February and it’s booming. Statewide cannabis sales in February alone surpassed $100 million. This is over twice what was brought in after the initial month of sales in Illinois, a state with double the population of Missouri. Knowing this, it seems as though the “Show Me State” is showing […]
Last week the United Nations’ International Narcotics Control Board issued a press release in which the international body expressed, “concern over the trend to legalize non-medical use of cannabis, which contravenes the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.” In its 2022 Annual Report, the International Narcotics Control Board outlined the following, as also mentioned in last week’s press […]