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It is 4/20, and the day arrives with the industry's regulatory architecture openly in motion. Gov. Maura Healey signed the Massachusetts cannabis overhaul yesterday afternoon, dissolving the Cannabis Control Commission hours before the movement's biggest marketing day. Colorado lawmakers are moving SB26-164 to pull low-dose hemp beverages into the alcohol lane while Ohio's governor just pulled them out of it. A Travis County judge has frozen half of Texas's new hemp rules with a hearing set for Thursday. The Senate is drafting a federalism exit ramp around a federal hemp crackdown that has not happened yet. Florida's dream market is running into its own math. And Whitney Economics has refreshed what 280E is still costing compliant operators: $2.24 billion last year, $15 billion since 2018, while the illicit market pays none of it. Celebration and structural stress on the same calendar.
🏛️ A new CCC in 30 days
🥤 Hemp beverages get two state answers in one week
⚖️ Texas hemp back in court Thursday
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