Signature drives, ballot language fights, and the campaigns trying to legalize by referendum.
Nov 4, 2026
AP called Question 8 for No, so licensed adult-use sales continue in Massachusetts. Plus, Aurora's board backs Organigram's $401 million offer.
Nov 3, 2026
Massachusetts votes on Question 8 today, and the people who set cannabis policy next year are on ballots everywhere. Plus: DEA’s dual-license states, Oregon’s record crop, Michigan’s tax pause.
Nov 2, 2026
DEA registered its first 900-plus medical dispensaries, all in seven states without adult-use sales. Plus: Question 8 and Idaho vote, New York’s equity fund, beer lobbyists and the hemp date.
Oct 22, 2026
DEA calls the bid to reopen rescheduling a fishing expedition. Plus Adria Berry steps down, a VA path for Massachusetts veterans, Worcester’s abstainers and Medicare’s CBD clock.
Oct 21, 2026
Delaware opens its THC drink market today, seven weeks before the federal hemp line. Plus a 71-21 Question 8 poll, SAM’s lobbying, UPS’s hemp terms and Missouri’s ownership gap.
Oct 19, 2026
Seven Nevada labs say an unmixed 20 grams can’t speak for a 15-pound lot. Plus 63 legislators on Question 8, Colorado’s audit, Total Wine’s $510,000 and expiring FDA agreements.
Oct 13, 2026
Question 8 has raised $3.5 million, and $1,625 came from Massachusetts residents. Plus North Carolina’s hemp shelves, Katyal for Hello Farms, Crowley and Minnesota’s farmers.
Oct 8, 2026
Question 8's first TV ads cite a 42% crash figure that matches one Ohio county. Plus DEA's silence with state regulators, Rhode Island hemp, a California destruction order and Maryland.
Oct 6, 2026
DEA's new registration form asks medical licensees whether they also handle adult-use product, a question Treasury hasn't answered. Plus Healey's no on Question 8, a New Jersey grower's untagged plants, and Georgia's October 28th delivery date.
Oct 5, 2026
Treasury calls 280E guidance a priority, and the entry has no scope and no date. Plus Scutari's moving hemp deadline, Idaho's initiative vote, Connecticut's patient-first shipments and New York's $4.1 billion.
Sep 9, 2026
Washington finally counted who will take cannabis money, and the barrier turned out to be the paperwork. Plus $600 from Massachusetts, and a commissioner who wants to stop regulating by the square foot.
Aug 21, 2026
The first general-electorate number on Question 8 lands the day the repeal's funder makes his case on GBH. Plus Booker and Trump's two federal tracks, Texas hemp's third lawsuit, and Tennessee's $54 million hemp tax hole.
Aug 19, 2026
Justice restores gun rights to cannabis consumers, Connecticut closes a store for good and follows the money, and 79 percent of Massachusetts Democrats say keep the law.
Aug 18, 2026
The state's medical commission votes September 30th on USPS and FedEx delivery to patients. Plus Yale's $111 billion estimate, DEA's seventeen-hour turnaround, and Virginia's special session push.
Aug 17, 2026
Judge Robert Ballou lets the two-milligram line land at midnight. Plus the CCC potency audit's harder questions, kratom goes Schedule I, and Stop the Repeal's chair joins The Hybrid.
Aug 11, 2026
Van Duyne and Landsman give hemp THC drinks an alcohol-style framework. Plus Houston counts signatures, Texas keeps enforcing, and Michigan's tax closes five stores.
Aug 6, 2026
Nine cosponsors on the amendment, Cotton calling it gas-station candy, and a White House liaison promising no more delays. Plus Oklahoma's ghost-licensing case reaches the attorney who drew up the paperwork, Michigan pulls a fourth license in three weeks, and Beacon Hill mostly hasn't answered.
Aug 5, 2026
Budd moves to strip the hemp delay, 35 attorneys general back the November date, and marijuana's top trade group amplifies them. Plus North Carolina punts its hemp vote, and 280E goes to Tax Court.
Jul 30, 2026
The 2025 federal survey counts 21.4 million daily cannabis consumers. Plus Comer's conditional delay, Total Wine's shelf fight, and the Eighth Circuit tests Hemani.
Jul 27, 2026
Marion County heard testimony on unlawful cannabis lobbying at the Statehouse. Plus Massachusetts clears $1B as a repeal vote looms, and Iowa makes its case at a recovery center.
Jul 22, 2026
The State Ballot Law Commission puts repeal on the November ballot. Plus Blanche commits to medical only, in writing, and the hemp cliff reaches the bar.
Jul 16, 2026
Sheehy's draft trades the November ban for a 1% crop line, age limits, and a nickel-per-milligram tax. Plus the War Department's rescheduling memo, and thirteen Massachusetts delivery pauses.
Jul 13, 2026
Chad Wolf reframes the November hemp restriction as national security. Plus: Massachusetts repeal makes the ballot by 122 signatures, and DOJ builds a False Claims Act case from PPP paperwork.
Jul 1, 2026
Day two turned on the two-part test the government swapped mid-analysis. Plus Pennsylvania's one-man gate, Nebraska approving rules it's still fighting in court, and a Minnesota city that did the math.
Jun 30, 2026
Day one put cannabis's safety on the record the D.C. Circuit will weigh. Plus two House Republicans bet against their own rescheduling block, Virginia's market becomes law, and Massachusetts braces for a repeat repeal cycle.
