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November 10, 2025
Built by a former cannabis regulator, Policy, Decoded helps operators see the policy terrain before it shifts beneath their feet.
Congress ended a forty-day shutdown by trading paychecks for prohibition. Hemp became the bargaining chip in a deal Mitch McConnell engineered to rewrite his legacy, and Rand Paul is the last one trying to slow it down. The clause looks technical - a redefinition of âhempâ and a 0.4 milligram limit - but it criminalizes an entire national market that did everything lawmakers claimed they wanted: lab-tested, age-gated, tax-paying products sold through licensed channels. Crisis politics always picks easy targets, and this time it picked an industry too young to have lobbyists with seniority.
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đ„€ Congress bets against hemp in an election year
âïž State preemption fights move to the courtroom
đ± Equity programs face reality checks
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