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Thailand: Mass Cannabis Retail Closure as Model Shifts to ‘Medical Only’
Thailand’s move away from general adult-use towards a ‘medical only’ model has led to the decimation of that country’s ‘Grey Zone’. Of the 18 000 cannabis outlets facing closure, fewer than 15% are likely to continue under new regulations which specify that cannabis sales are for medical use only.
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Trump Opens the Door for Psychedelic Drugs to Treat Serious Mental Illness
President Donald Trump has opened the door for psychedelic drugs to be used as a potential treatment for serious mental illness. He signed an executive order on 18 April 2026 that empowers the FDA to do this and put aside US$50 million for psychedelics research.
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The Big Cannabis Issue Facing the World: Who Benefits from Legalization and Who Gets Left Behind?
  • Tebogo Tia Ramfate, founder AfuRaka & Soweto Cannabis Association
International collaboration is one of the pathways for marginalized cannabis communities to have their voices heard. Soweto Cannabis Association founder Tia Ramfate (pictured here) is to visit Canada to strengthen international ties for the AfuRaka Foundation she has launched.
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Ninth Wave’s Campher: Cannabis ‘Grey Zone Regulation will Lead to Demand for Marketing and Sales Jobs
  • Brett Hilton-Barber Q&A with Loerie Campher, Ninth Wave Cannabis Recruitment
As the cannabis retail ‘Grey Zone’ becomes regulated there will be a growing demand for sales and marketing skills sets within the sector. Ninth Wave recruitment specialist Lourie Campher (pictured here) says cultivation and pharmaceutical specialists are currently in demand, but the job pool is steadily expanding into other disciplines.
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Lesotho Rising: New Markets Await as MG Health and LuCan Labs Awarded EU GMP Certification
Lesotho’s cannabis revival has been given a huge boost with independent EU-GMPCertification awarded to MG Health and LuCan Labs late last year. MG Health founder Andre Bothma, says the recognition is a major step forward in the company’s global cannabis strategy that will benefit the country as a whole.
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Traditional Healer Turns to Public Protector to Recover R35 m Cannabis IP Assets Allegedly Destroyed by SAPS
Anthony Karoly Smida says cannabis saved his life and now the police are ruining it. The Vaal Triangle medicinal cannabis researcher and healer has registered a complaint with the Public Protector alleging ongoing SAPS harassment and the destruction of valuable cannabis research assets to the tune of R34 million.
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Trending USA: Prerolls Replace Flower as the Most-Sold Cannabis Product Category
The cannabis industry has a new center of gravity. In 2025, pre-rolls became the most-sold product category in the United States by unit volume, closing the chapter on flower's long-standing dominance and opening a new era shaped by speed, scale and brand execution.
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State Lawyers Not Yet Ready to Take on Prince Challenge, Matter Now Set for 8 June 2026
The Western Cape High Court has denied a state request to remove the urgency status from Gareth Prince’s application calling for a halt to cannabis arrests and other changes to the law. Instead it’s given the State a deadline to respond and the matter will be heard again on Monday, 8 June 2026.
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CAB’s Legal Hackles Rise as Botswana Govt Gives Civil Society the Cannabis Cold Shoulder
The Cannabis Association of Botswana is embarking on the lawfare route to force Government to recognize that civil society has a place in the development of a local cannabis economy. CAB has been waiting for a year to be registration and has decided to go to court to force the authorities to come clean on the delay.
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Cannabis Act May Never See the Light of Day As Prince Throws a Legal Spanner in the Works
Critics have long-warned that the Cannabis Act is fundamentally flawed – from a constitutional and policy perspective. Although Gareth Prince’s Western Cape High Court challenge is not targeting the Act specifically, if it succeeds, South Africa’s first pass at a cannabis law will either have to be rewritten or replaced.
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