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  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    European cannabis companies start IPO planning as US considers looser rules

    Federal authorities are proposing to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug

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  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Lex
    Cannabis stocks have failed to produce an investment high Premium content

    A market glut and a thriving illicit market have combined to undercut billions of dollars in revenue projections

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  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
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    Weed after beer, and nothing’s clear

    “How big a threat is cannabis legalisation to alcohol sales?” — not answered here

  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Biden administration plans to loosen marijuana rules

    New classification of drug comes as president tries to shore up vote among younger Americans

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  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    Interview
    Cannabis grower Curaleaf weighs Europe listing after German legalisation

    Sector’s biggest company says it is talking to exchanges in London and Frankfurt

    A customer shows purchased marijuana products at Curaleaf
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Germany legalises cannabis for personal use

    Controversial law falls short of allowing wholesale cultivation and retail of the drug

    People wearing shirts calling for the legalisation of cannabis watch German legislators debating the bill
  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    News in-depthUS society
    Cannabis redraws US’s 2024 electoral map

    Republicans and Democrats face an electorate that increasingly favours looser marijuana laws

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  • Saturday, 19 August, 2023
    Cannabis group Curaleaf targets German windfall

    Company expects to be selling the drug for recreational use by end of next year after government legislation

  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
    Germany
    Germany’s cabinet approves plan for ‘controlled legalisation’ of cannabis

    Compromise would allow ‘cannabis clubs’ to grow and distribute marijuana to their members

    Protesters march with a giant mock joint that bears the words ‘Legalisation’ in Berlin
  • Friday, 2 June, 2023
    UK medical cannabis group woos patients to buy into the business

    Isle of Man’s GLO wants to sell 25 per cent to clients, letting them influence production

  • Friday, 28 April, 2023
    Cannabis companies proliferate on list of fastest-growing American businesses

    Spread of legal marijuana lifts 11 companies into FT/Statista ranking, with some recording $1bn in annual revenue

    Kristen Aiesi, dispensary manager in Ware, fills a container with the Gorilla Grape Gush
  • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
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    Ukraine pleads for air defence missiles

    EU gas usage falls 18% after price shock caused by Russian supply cuts

  • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
    Germany
    Germany set to legalise personal use of cannabis

    Bill less ambitious than original plan, which envisaged free sale of drug in Dutch-styled coffee shops

    A pro-cannabis march in Berlin in 2019
  • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
    Recreational drugs
    Zurich to legalise consumption and sale of cannabis in trial scheme

    Experiment in Switzerland’s biggest city will assess benefits of regulating supply of the recreational drug

    The cultivation of legal cannabis plants in Switzerland
  • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
    Celadon becomes first UK medical cannabis group to win right to sell in Britain

    Update to Home Office licence will allow London-listed pharmaceuticals group to pursue supply deals

    Celadon’s manufacturing plant, can currently cultivate about 3 tonnes of cannabis flower a year, but once manufacturing is ramped up it  will be able to process closer to 10 tonnes
  • Saturday, 7 January, 2023
    Retail & Consumer industry
    New York’s legal cannabis market tries to avoid a bad comedown

    Can the city solve the problems that have plagued regulated sales of the drug in other states?

    A customer makes one of the first purchases during day one of regulated adult-use cannabis sales in New York City on December 29
  • Saturday, 29 October, 2022
    Lex
    Germany/cannabis: spliff what-ifs will temper weed need Premium content

    If the US and Canada are any guide, the lesson of legalisation is to avoid oversupply and overregulation

    A person holds a joint in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin
  • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
    German politics
    Germany unveils plans to legalise cannabis

    Move would create the world’s largest regulated national market for the drug

    Pro-legalisation campaigners in Berlin
  • Friday, 14 October, 2022
    Lex
    Cannabis stocks: after years of hype it’s high time for profits  Premium content

    Legalisation is not the cure-all the sector hoped for

    Different strains of cannabis are displayed for sale at the Harborside dispensary in Oakland, California
  • Thursday, 6 October, 2022
    US politics & policy
    Biden to pardon thousands for ‘simple’ marijuana possession

    US president calls for review of drug’s classification under federal law

    US president Joe Biden speaks at an event
  • Saturday, 20 August, 2022
    FT Magazine
    How legal weed is changing New York City’s vibe (and smell)

    What newly liberalised marijuana culture says about the city post-pandemic

    People picnicking in a park under a bridge in New York
  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    InterviewOffice of National Drug Control Policy
    US pivots to ‘harm reduction’ after 107,000 overdose deaths last year

    White House drug tsar says marijuana legalisation and safe injection sites will also be reviewed

    Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy Rahul Gupta speaks to the media before the offload of approximately $1.06bn in cocaine and marijuana at the Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on February 17 2022
  • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
    UK group moves to Jersey after rules relaxed on cannabis-related products

    Consumer goods company Tenacious Labs shifts HQ to Channel Island to help expansion

  • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
    Drugs research
    Indivior sees ‘huge opportunity’ for drug targeting cannabis misuse

    Biotech company hopes to win first US approval for medicine aimed at people addicted to marijuana

    Dried hemp plants are sorted and trimmed at Hepworth Farms in Milton, New York, Monday, April 12 2021
  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    UK economy
    UK taxpayer takes stake in cannabis products firm through Future Fund

    Covid support scheme launched by Rishi Sunak in 2020 now holds shares in 337 companies

    Grass & Co makes cannabidiol-based health products
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