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The most consequential administrative hearing in the history of federal cannabis policy closes today in Arlington, and its strangest feature is sitting in plain sight: the DEA spent three weeks defending its own rule while its own pharmacologist testified against it from the opposition's witness list. A viral claim that the opposition's Harvard expert conceded the Schedule III test under cross is circulating on far thinner sourcing, and we will treat it accordingly below. The rest of the day runs on the same current of institutions deciding who holds the pen: Congress receives a menu for rewriting the gun ban the Supreme Court just dismantled, Albany sends Governor Hochul a cannabis wage board wrapped around a labor peace repeal, Michigan's Supreme Court tells trial judges that federal prohibition is not a probation condition, and Maryland's equity licensees finally get to unlock a front door.
🏁 The rescheduling record closes, built for a different courtroom
👷 Albany trades labor peace for a wage board
🏪 Maryland's equity licenses reach the storefront
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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