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Before we get into today, one small correction. Yesterday's edition gave Ohio's Judge Jeffrey Helmick the first name James. He remains Jeffrey. And with that, to today.
The hemp fight in Washington now looks less like a policy dispute and more like a family argument, the kind that gets loud right around the holidays. Sen. Ted Budd took the Senate floor to defend his amendment, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand crossed the aisle to join him, Vice President JD Vance sat down with Senate Republicans to broker a peace, and Majority Leader John Thune warned the whole thing could take the funding bill down with it. Closer to home, Newton is writing a $2.4 million check back to three dispensaries, and the Cannabis Control Commission is reopening a testing file it already knows by heart. Germany, meanwhile, is discovering that passing two cannabis systems is easier than running either one.
🐑 Budd, unmoved
💸 Newton writes the check
🌍 Germany stalls twice
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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