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- Industry Trends
New Report: UK and Germany Medical Cannabis Markets Both Double in 2025
The UK and Germany’s medical cannabis markets both more than doubled in size throughout 2025, once again cementing the countries as the engine behind European market growth.
- Public Markets
US Cannabis Companies Could Finally Get Access to NASDAQ and Financial Services Under New Bill
Bipartisan lawmakers have reintroduced a bill to the House of Representatives that would provide a pathway for cannabis businesses to list on the US stock exchange, accessing the institutional capital they sorely need.
- Cultivation
India Issues First Cannabis Research Grant That Could Help Open Up Market
For the first time in over 5 decades, the Indian government has granted public funding to a cannabis research project, with ramifications which will determine ‘whether India can build a credible pharmaceutical industry’ around cannabis.
- Cultivation
New Zealand’s Medical Cannabis Market Growth Slows as Major Operator Calls in Administrators
New Zealand’s medical cannabis market grew a further 25% in 2025, according to the latest official figures, seeing the country cement its position as one of the lesser-discussed but most exciting markets on the planet.
- Cultivation
De-Risking the Future: What’s Holding Traditional Industry Back from Cannabis Investment?
Nearly a decade after the inception of what we would now consider the ‘global cannabis industry’, Prohibition Partners forecasts its total worth to be around $40bn in 2025, already larger than the entire global recorded music industry.
- Clinical Research
Beyond the Abstract: What the Landmark Lancet Psychiatry Cannabinoid Review Shows
A major new systematic review has concluded that the available evidence rarely justifies the routine prescribing of cannabinoids for mental health conditions and substance use disorders.
- Data & Analysis
Diverging Cannabis Usage Trends Highlight Uneven Impact Of Europe’s Policy Landscape
Cannabis remained Europe’s most commonly used drug in 2025, according to new wastewater analysis from the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA), suggesting around 8.4% of European adults have consumed cannabis within the last year.
- Industry Trends
Germany’s Medical Cannabis Product Range Quadruples as Prices Fall 30%
Business of Cannabis is excited to announce the launch of German Cannabis Intel: Insights & Market Data, the inaugural report in our new quarterly series in partnership with Grünhorn.
- Industry Trends
Deals, Courts and Coalition Splits: Germany’s Cannabis Market Braces for Change
It’s now five months since the German Federal Cabinet adopted draft amendments to its pivotal Medizinal-Cannabisgesetzes (MedCanG) bill, and its finalisation is expected in the coming weeks.
- Hemp Industry
UK Hemp Industry Has Everything It Needs Except the Law
The UK’s industrial hemp sector, and its potential, have been raised in Parliament nearly as many times in the first three months of 2026 as the entirety of 2025.
- Industry Trends
Rescheduling Stalemate Leaves MSOs Facing a Billion Dollar Tax Reckoning
The Trump administration’s continued inaction on its promise to push ahead with the highly anticipated cannabis rescheduling project is now presenting some real-world issues for many of the sector’s largest players.
- Industry Trends
Is a Cannabis M&A Tidal Wave on the Way?
At the end of the month (March 30, 2026), shareholders of one of the fastest growing Canadian licenced producers, Organigram Global, will convene to decide the fate of its proposed €250m acquisition of Sanity Group.
