🍹 Logan's puts THC on the menu

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The Schedule III order the Justice Department signed in April was an abstraction, a paragraph in the Federal Register. It is turning into things people can order, file, and claim. Logan's Roadhouse put hemp THC on a casual-dining menu in Texas. A cannabis-derived pain drug picked up FDA breakthrough status and a clearer path to approval. Illinois sent Pritzker a bill that hands adult-use operators a medical license and, with it, a route to DEA registration. The 280E refund clock is running for medical operators who kept clean books, and Wyoming's attorney general is arguing the state's own statutes never agreed to any of it. The plant keeps becoming ordinary in some rooms and contested in others, with the June 29th hearing sitting over all of it.

🍹 THC, table for one
🧪 The FDA opens a lane
⚖️ Wyoming says not so fast