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I'm still in Austin for day two of the Hemp Beverage Expo, fresh off IgniteIt in Chicago. If you're here, come find me. I would rather hear what you're seeing than guess at it.
The federal picture is a holding pattern that everyone is trying to game. A drug developer is loading the June 29th rescheduling hearing with former DEA voices, the restaurant industry is asking Congress to spare hemp beverages before November, and the courts are filling the vacuum, with a tribal raid case headed to the Ninth Circuit and Rhode Island unwinding a residency rule that federal suits already froze. Underneath it, the states keep deciding anyway: Virginia puts hemp through the wringer before retail opens, Massachusetts loosens its caps, and Michigan leans on licenses to discipline a market its own taxes helped wobble. The cost of guessing wrong keeps climbing.
⚖️ Opponents bring DEA alumni to the hearing
🍹 Restaurants go to bat for hemp drinks
🏞️ A tribal raid heads to the Ninth Circuit
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