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The federal government is showing signs of life on CBD while states keep rewriting the rules around hemp beverages, cannabis taxes, and market access in real time. Colorado wants into the low-dose beverage lane it helped inspire. New Jersey is pulling hemp drinks out of convenience stores and into licensed channels before the federal sunset hits in November. Michigan operators are watching a 40 percent tax burden become a campaign prop. And Minnesota is learning that supply problems and sequencing problems do not always respond to the same fix. Across every story today, the same question keeps surfacing: who gets to set the pace of this market, and whether the people building businesses inside it will have enough stable ground to plan on.
🏛️ CBD meetings land on the White House calendar
🥤 Two states, two beverage strategies
⚖️ Workplace law meets cannabis legitimacy
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