🧪 NJ comes for the labs

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In Trenton, the Cannabis Regulatory Commission is using public commission discussion of outlier labs to do the enforcement that statute alone could not. On the Hill, a Republican appropriator in a competitive reelection is reframing illegal grows as a financial-crimes and national-security file, and the House is sending the Veterans Equal Access amendment back to a conference room that has stripped it every year since 2015. In Massachusetts, a brand-new statute is about to convert cannabis B2B delinquency into a public posting, with all the side effects that come with that kind of instrument. In Richmond, Missouri, and Connecticut, governors and courts and consumer plaintiffs are choosing whether to let market structure speak through contracts or through law. Underneath it all, the federal hemp clock keeps ticking toward November 12th.

🎖️ Veterans goes to conference, again
🏚️ Collins (no relation) on the Hill
🌾 November keeps coming