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If you missed it, the latest episode of The Hybrid is worth the long weekend. Erik and I sat down with Christina Dempsey of California's Department of Cannabis Control, and it holds up as the inbox goes quiet.
The federal fight has a calendar today, and it runs in two rooms at once. In Arlington, the DEA's rescheduling hearing gives its floor to the National Drug and Alcohol Screening Association before the whole thing breaks for the holiday. A few blocks of jurisdiction away, the Justice Department owes the D.C. Circuit its answer on whether to freeze the medical order that started all of this. In the states the work is quieter and more permanent: Jim Pillen signed Nebraska's medical rules into being, Delaware's legislature took the zoning veto away from its own governor, and a Cincinnati brewery bought itself eleven more days of legal THC soda. The alcohol industry, watching hemp drinks eat into its worst quarter in years, is doing something about it in the only room that has ever mattered to it.
🧪 The government defends its record, twice in one day
🌽 Pillen signs what his AG is still fighting
🍺 Beer money finds the hemp bill
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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