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I will be in Chicago this weekend for the IgniteIt Cannabis Capital Conference, June 14-16. I am joining Massachusetts Rep. Dan Donahue (D-Worcester) and others for a panel on the state's repeal ballot question, which ties straight into today's closing item on the SAM-funded effort to end adult-use sales. If you will be there, come say hello. Subscribers save 20 percent on registration with the code POLICYDECODED20.
The through-line today is the machinery of cannabis and hemp governance: who gets to build it, who runs it, who can afford to comply with it, and how much power it can bring to bear. North Carolina, unable to agree on a full hemp framework, fell back to the one piece everyone can pass, an age limit. Pennsylvania's board bill collapsed over who should hold the architecture. A New York appellate court, by one account, just handed regulators back the search power a lower court had stripped. Rhode Island finally staffed its commission while a federal court keeps its licensing program frozen, and Tennessee's new fee schedule quietly decides which small operators can afford to stay legal. The fights look local. The question underneath is the same everywhere.
🧃 The age-gate fallback
⚖️ OCM gets its searches back
🗳️ SAM's repeal, caught but not done
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