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May 22, 2026

🏦 Maryland's side door

A bankruptcy court hands Maryland a permit transfer the state was not planning to allow. Federal labor law settles against cannabis exceptionalism. Colorado cultivators sue over the excise tax math. Minnesota loses a lab.

May 21, 2026

⚖️ The Towns owed a paper trail

A Worcester Superior Court judge says Massachusetts municipalities had to document Community Impact Fees costs under the prior statute too. Curaleaf can sue to find out if they did.

May 20, 2026

🏛️ Healey owns it now.

DeLobato, Wilson, and Harding take the rebuilt Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, and the executive director now reports to the chair. DOJ moves to claw back TerrAscend's $8 million refund. California writes a Schedule III workaround. Vermont keeps the 30% cap. Spanberger vetoes Virginia retail.

May 19, 2026

🏛️ Congress Built This Middle

Forty-one groups tell Congress Schedule III doesn't finish the job. Plus: Connecticut's mold files show what oversight actually costs, Minnesota merges its supply chains, and Colorado still can't open a door past retail.

May 18, 2026

🩺 95%, including the kids

A Fort Lee doctor wrote cannabis authorizations for 95% of his patients, kids included, and prohibitionists now have their rescheduling exhibit. Plus Barr names who really doesn't want a hemp lane, House of Saka's Chapter 7, and Colorado can't measure its own inversion problem.

May 17, 2026

🌿 They Want You to Vote No on Weed

The most sophisticated repeal campaign prohibition has run, the money behind it, and what its own evidence actually argues for.

May 15, 2026

🧪 NJ comes for the labs

The Cannabis Regulatory Commission is using public commission discussion to do enforcement statute alone could not. Collins pulls Patel onto Maine grow houses. The House sends Veterans back to a conference room that has stripped it every year since 2015. Healey will post the deadbeats. Good Day Farm faces a second antitrust suit. The hemp clock keeps ticking.

May 14, 2026

🗳️ Stop counting bills. Count votes.

The 2026 midterms will matter more for cannabis than the next bill filed in Congress, because bills only move when the political environment supplies a path. Plus: Cannabis Caucus co-chairs speak past a Republican wall, Nevada quantifies its $80 million gaming barrier, five MSOs file DEA registrations, Stitt holds an ibogaine trials bill, and Bonta files 66 felony counts against an $80 million unlicensed operation.

May 13, 2026

🌿 Schedule III does not touch hemp

DOJ's Schedule III order leaves hemp's November cliff fully intact, and Congress just told DEA to start enforcing. A Florida ALJ reopened the MMTC scoring. Ohio puts $20M into messaging while its regulator runs on a $9M budget. Inside today.