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The Senate spent the weekend deciding when a law takes effect. Nearly everyone else in this edition is already living with the consequences of laws that have. Square told its merchants to clear their shelves without waiting for Congress, Vermont's CBD makers heard their own attorney general argue for the deadline that would cut them off from most of their customers, and Ohio's candidates for governor were asked to put cannabis positions on paper. Two of the three did. Rhode Island, meanwhile, reopened a licensing process that a federal judge said failed the first time by the state's own hand.
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