Cited in boardrooms, legal proceedings & government briefings since 2017
About Prohibition Partners
When the decision is expensive — market entry, capital allocation, policy — Prohibition Partners is the number the board will accept. Decision-grade reports, data and bespoke analysis, since 2017.
Cited in boardrooms, legal proceedings and government briefings.
Trusted by teams at
Anyone can publish a cannabis market number. What makes one decision-grade is method, independence and evidence — the things that are slow to build and hard to copy.
Independent
We take no operator money that could shape a finding. We measure the industry; we're not in it.
A decade of method
Our sizing and forecast methodology has been built and refined since 2017 — the moat that makes the numbers defensible.
Sourced & numbered
Every significant claim carries a source, date and geography. If it can't be evidenced, it doesn't ship.
International, European-deep
Global in scope with genuine depth in the European markets everyone else covers from abroad.
A small team that has sized, tracked and argued the cannabis market since 2017 — the same people you meet on stage at Cannabis Europa and on the other end of a bespoke brief.
Stephen Murphy
Chief Executive
Matt Freemantle
Managing Director
Alex Khourdaji
Senior Analyst
Bethany Appleby
Head of Sales
Michael Hoban
Head of Marketing & Communications
Reports & Data
Flagship reports, market reviews and market-sizing data packs — sold individually and licensed for internal use.
Bespoke analysis
Commissioned research scoped to your exact decision and timeline.
The research library
The published editions behind the platform — flagship reports, datasets and white papers.
The group
Prohibition Partners sits at the centre of a group that serves one senior audience five ways — the news it reads, the newsletters it trusts, the rooms it meets in, the intelligence it decides with, and the growth partner it hires. Every brand carries the Prohibition Partners mark, and every one of them hands the audience on to the next.
81%
of our research readers are also in the Cannabis Europa room.
First-party CRM, July 2026: 50,248 of 62,335 contacts.
Line weight: share of the audience each brand has in common with Prohibition Partners (first-party CRM). PPX is new, so its cord is still dashed.
How one audience moves through the group
01Discover
The news and the patient story
Business of Cannabis · Cannabis Health
02Trust
The newsletters the relationship lives in
International Cannabis Weekly · BoC Briefing · Cannabis Health weekly
03Meet
The rooms where the market decides
Cannabis Europa · Mind Forward · Cannabis Health Symposium
04Decide
The number the board will accept
Prohibition Partners reports, data & briefs
05Grow
Growth built on all of the above
PPX advisory & media
The industry's wire
Business of Cannabis
If it moves the legal cannabis industry — a ruling, a raise, a collapse, a ban — you read it here first, with the number that matters and what it means for your business.
Daily
With PP: News hooks hand off to PP depth: market explainers carry a Prohibition Partners report block.
businessofcannabis.com
The room
Cannabis Europa
Where everyone who moves European cannabis — operators, capital, government and now patients — meets in one curated room.
London each May · a second summit that rotates (Paris 2026)
With PP: Panels built on PP frameworks; the room where most bespoke briefs begin.
cannabis-europa.com
The patient title
Cannabis Health
Patients get access made plain. Clinicians get evidence made usable. Both get journalism they can trust.
Weekly · Cannabis Health Symposium each autumn
With PP: The demand-side signal behind PP's medical-market sizing.
cannabishealthnews.co.uk
Brain science, convened
Mind Forward
The science-credible symposium spanning depression biotech, psychedelics and CNS, brain longevity, digital therapeutics and AI in mental health.
Annual London symposium
With PP: Where the group's psychedelics and CNS coverage now lives.
mindforward.health
The growth partner
PPX
Growth and advisory for companies competing in regulated markets — media reach, advisory muscle and market intelligence from inside the industry, not an agency learning it on your budget.
Engagement-led
With PP: Runs client work on PP intelligence and the group's reach — it never resells the research.
ppx.global