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Ninety-nine days ago, President Trump told DOJ to reschedule marijuana as fast as possible. The agency lost its judge, missed a research deadline, and went quiet. That silence sets the tone for the rest of today's edition. Ohio killed its hemp beverage lane and started watching breweries pack up for other states. Minnesota's rescue effort is hostage to a political fight that has nothing to do with hemp. Indiana's governor said the quiet part out loud while his Legislature ran out the clock. And Mississippi vetoed medical cannabis for terminal patients in the same sweep it greenlighted psychedelic research. Nobody is waiting for permission anymore. The people who should be governing are the only ones still standing still.
🔥 DOJ stalls on Schedule III
🍺 Ohio exports its hemp economy
💀 Mississippi vetoes the dying
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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