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This is an edition about institutional design and what happens when markets start to grow up. Massachusetts is restructuring a regulatory agency that became its own worst enemy, with the same internal politics I walked away from still on display years later. New York is finally posting per-store numbers that suggest its operators are building businesses rather than just holding licenses. Maine is debating whether its medical program can keep operating without the basic testing infrastructure every other state requires. Ohio is watching its hemp litigation narrow after the state Supreme Court declined to intervene. And Nebraska is fighting the same policy battle across three branches of government at once. The thread connecting all of it: cannabis policy has moved past the question of whether to regulate and into the harder question of how to build systems that actually work.
🏛️ Mass. cleans house and rewrites the rulebook
📈 NY retailers are averaging $4M a store, finally
⚖️ Ohio's hemp fight lands in a county courthouse after the Supreme Court walks
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