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The White House spent this week leaning on Senate Republicans over four weeks of hemp. Yesterday The New York Times reported who else had been leaning, and the answer was the chief of staff's new son-in-law, who runs a cannabinoid supply company. Nothing in the policy changed, yet. What changed is that every member now weighing the extension has a second question to answer, and some of them are asking it out loud to their own leadership. Below that, the day runs through the people who build the structures the rules are supposed to catch: an Oklahoma attorney whose co-defendant has started talking, a Michigan retailer surrendering its license rather than contest what the data showed, and a California tax agency counting what it seized.
🏛️ The delay acquires a last name
⚖️ Oklahoma's ghost licensing reaches the lawyer
🚪 Michigan closes another one
🌙 Dronabinol and the nightmares
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
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