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A federal judge in Toledo just gave the hemp beverage fight its clearest ruling yet, and he wrote it broad enough to protect not only the companies that sued but anyone selling or drinking their products. That is the kind of order that travels. The rest of the day runs downstream of the same tension between what a state wants to ban and what the Constitution lets it reach: one operator pitches Congress a framework to replace November's federal cliff, Pennsylvania's budget closes without legalization for another year, Massachusetts opens a narrow clinical door to psychedelics, and Curaleaf quietly takes Spain's first two registration numbers. Federal courts, state legislatures, and one European regulator, all sorting the same question of who gets to decide.

⚖️ A federal judge freezes Ohio's hemp ban statewide
🤝 One operator pitches Congress a hemp framework
🚧 Pennsylvania's budget closes without legalization again

The law does not content itself with classifying and punishing crime. It plays its part in the life of a nation.

Learned Hand, address to the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (1929)

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