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Built by a former cannabis regulator, Policy, Decoded helps operators read the policy terrain before it shifts beneath their feet.
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The day's stories cluster around one observation that keeps reasserting itself: cannabis policy remains a political free agent. The Trump administration is pushing rescheduling forward through the executive branch. House Republican appropriators voted yesterday to block it. The same administration that just moved cannabis to Schedule III is the one whose third surgeon general nominee has a written paper trail of cannabis skepticism. The Farm Bill that passed the House this week did not move the November hemp deadline, but Trump-aligned pollsters are putting Texas medical cannabis numbers in front of vulnerable Republicans. Operators trying to read this terrain are not getting one signal. They are getting several at once, on different clocks, from sources that do not coordinate.
🥤 C-stores keep advocating for what their customers buy
🧾 The DEA registration trade gets sharper
🩺 A third surgeon general pick with a paper trail
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