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The rescheduling hearing opens this morning in Arlington with DEA defending a reform it spent decades fighting, and a room of opponents lined up to cross-examine the government's case. None of it gets decided in that room. The hearing builds a record, and the record is what the D.C. Circuit weighs on appeal, which is why the witnesses, the fenced FDA testimony, and the judge's refusal to livestream all matter more than they look. The rest of the day is the field moving underneath the federal fight. The White House is leaning on Congress for a hemp fix and possibly handed a cornered category an off-ramp, a federal judge ran Ohio's hemp ban into the Commerce Clause, and RAND priced Indiana's market at a number well short of the campaign math.
🏛️ The government argues its own reversal
🎥 LEVIA kicks back with Ethan Zohn
💵 Indiana's sober number
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