🏦 Maryland's side door

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A note before we get into today. The Sunday Read-In is on pause this week for Memorial Day weekend. The publication will be back in inboxes on Tuesday with the regular daily. Whatever your plans look like, I hope the long weekend gives you some space to rest, eat well, and spend time with the people you care about. And while the weekend has come to mean cookouts and the unofficial start of summer, the holiday itself is for the Americans who died in service to the country. They are why the rest of it is possible. Take a minute somewhere in the weekend to remember that.

The week ends inside the machinery. A Delaware bankruptcy court has handed Maryland regulators a permit transfer they were not planning to allow for three more years. The NLRB has finally settled the agricultural-worker question cannabis employers have been running since 2023. Colorado's cultivators have sued the state over the AMR math. Minnesota lost a quarter of its lab capacity overnight. Connecticut is writing low-dose THC into the alcohol channel. The headline fights make the press releases. The implementation fights make the markets.

⚖️ The agricultural-worker argument, done
💰 Colorado's AMR math
🧪 A lab goes dark