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The federal government counted, and 21.4 million Americans now use cannabis daily or nearly so, more than smoke cigarettes every day and more than drink every day. In Washington, Rep. James Comer is circulating a hemp delay that waits on an FDA already five months late on its own homework. In Bethesda, Total Wine is organizing alcohol retail around keeping THC beverages on its shelves. And in St. Louis, an Iowa man named Keshon Baxter is asking the Eighth Circuit how much the Supreme Court's gun ruling actually protects. The day's stories share a starting point: Americans have already decided to use this product, and the institutions around them are still deciding what to do about it.
📊 Daily use passes cigarettes
🏛 Comer waits on the FDA
🍷 Total Wine wants the shelf
🔫 Baxter tests Hemani
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