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Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Patty Murray (D-Washington) put four more weeks on the calendar for most of the hemp market, and the chamber that wrote the ban is the one handing them out. In Galveston, three hemp businesses went to federal court with the preemption argument the Texas Supreme Court never reached. In Rochester, police walked reporters through twenty thousand pounds of concentrate and candy bars labeled at a hundred times the state limit. And in Springfield, dispensary workers ratified a contract that took three years and a federal labor ruling to produce.

⏳ Twenty-nine days, pegged to a funding cliff
⚖️ Texas hemp finds a federal forum
📦 The largest bust New York's regulator has joined

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, 1792

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