Country-by-country insight on legalisation models, trade rules, and compliance trends.
The Global Cannabis Regulatory Summit (GCRS) has published a 100-page white paper that diagnoses a fragmented global regulatory landscape and sets out a working architecture to address it.
Authorities from the German state of Hesse have taken aim at the practice of ‘GMP washing’ in its thriving medical cannabis market, an intervention that could have significant implications for the industry at large.
Cultivation is perhaps the most complex, highly regulated, and expensive part of the cannabis supply chain.
Thirteen years ago, Uruguay became the first country on the planet to officially legalise cannabis for recreational (adult-use) purposes.
South Africa’s long-suffering cannabis operators have demanded that the government make good on its extensive plans for a regulated framework, as frustration with its lack of meaningful action reaches a boiling point.
Australia’s New South Wales has moved to end the automatic penalisation of medicinal cannabis patients caught driving with THC in their system, introducing a registration and threshold-based framework that leaves most of Australia’s one million cannabis patients still without equivalent protection.
In April 2025, the Italian government used emergency constitutional powers to bypass parliament and reclassify non-intoxicating hemp as a narcotic, regardless of THC content, following multiple failed attempts to decimate the industry.
For many, last week’s rescheduling announcement threw a spanner in the works.
The UK’s Cannabis Industry Council (CIC) has published a new comprehensive guide for patients travelling with prescribed medical cannabis in the wake of a series of reported incidents involving both airlines and border control authorities.
