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Today is Juneteenth. It is an easy holiday to wave past in a policy briefing, but it belongs close to this one. The drug war fell unevenly along racial lines for decades, and the expungement and equity provisions built into cannabis legalization are part of how states have tried to reckon with that.
The Supreme Court handed marijuana users a Second Amendment win this week, ruling 9-0 that the government cannot strip someone of gun rights over marijuana use alone, with Justice Neil Gorsuch leaning on the government's own Schedule III reclassification to get there. That carveout, an April Justice Department order, now comes with a registration fee, a June 26th deadline, and DEA agents already visiting the Mississippi dispensaries that signed up. Ohio regulators still cannot get a straight answer from Washington on how a dual-use business runs, a gap that probably reflects a federal government building this rule as it goes, with Ohio no further behind than anyone else.
⚖️ Unanimous, and deliberately narrow
🏛️ The DEA picks its critics
🎰 Cannabis meets the casino
Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.
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