SAFE Banking, institutional access, and the cash problem federal illegality created and never fixed.
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 10, 2026
Sixty-one votes moved the federal hemp ban to December 11, and the House inherits the date. Square tells merchants to clear hemp by October 15 anyway, Rhode Island reopens retail licensing with the sunk costs unpaid, and a THC test can now open a child-welfare file.
Jul 31, 2026
California's treasurer wants Prop 64 replaced outright. Plus Virginia stands up an intoxicants unit, North Carolina nears its unamendable hemp vote, and Texas's line lands today.
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 24, 2026
An accredited lab pulled Virginia shelf flower and found illegal THC, microbials, and a pesticide that becomes cyanide when smoked. Plus the White House backing Barr describes, Minnesota's plan to regulate a Schedule I product, and 89 percent.
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 26, 2026
Sen. Merkley refiled SAFE Banking with a bipartisan four, days before the DEA's hearing. Plus California's $227M enforcement bet, why Stop the Repeal is every legal state's fight, and Ohio's beverage ban now running brand by brand.
Jun 25, 2026
A hemp fix is riding $87.6B in war funding to Speaker Johnson's desk. Plus the DEA won't defend its own harms witness, banks back away from hemp, and Michigan's medical market nearly vanishes.
Jun 17, 2026
An industry-side analysis says the D.C. Circuit could stay and reverse rescheduling if standing clears. Plus the FDA's missing hemp lines, Virginia's market caught in a data-center budget fight, and what rescheduling still hasn't done for banking.
Jun 9, 2026
Idaho's legislature put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot asking voters to give up their own power to legalize cannabis, while Massachusetts fights a push to repeal the market its voters passed. Plus Cresco's $50M bank line and who it leaves out, federal marijuana cases at a record low, and Vireo buying up the supply chain.
May 29, 2026
Surovell and Lucas float folding cannabis sales into the July 1 budget to box the governor in. Plus: Congress leans on the IRS over 280E, ATACH lawyers up for the DEA hearing, and Tennessee's THCA ban hits July 1.
May 13, 2026
DOJ's Schedule III order leaves hemp's November cliff fully intact, and Congress just told DEA to start enforcing. A Florida ALJ reopened the MMTC scoring. Ohio puts $20M into messaging while its regulator runs on a $9M budget. Inside today.
May 6, 2026
The White House targets delta-8, delta-10, THC-O, and THCP while protecting full-spectrum CBD | SAM and NDASA take Schedule III to the D.C. Circuit | Tim Scott reconsiders cannabis banking
Apr 24, 2026
Washington reopened every major cannabis and hemp question today and answered none of them | DOJ moves state-licensed medical marijuana to Schedule III while routing adult-use to a June 29th hearing | The 3 mg CMS Medicare standard is the clearest signal yet about where a revised federal hemp floor might land
Mar 24, 2026
Michigan’s tax fight, Virginia’s market design, and a hemp industry being sorted in real time
Mar 12, 2026
Colorado and Massachusetts show what oversupply looks like, while Congress, banks, and states wrestle with the next phase of cannabis policy.
Mar 6, 2026
Congress advances the Farm Bill without a hemp runway, SAFE Banking loses a key Republican vote, and states keep reshaping cannabis policy from Oklahoma to Michigan.
Feb 23, 2026
Supreme Court gun exposure, tighter oversight in Missouri and Rhode Island, Ohio testing shifts, and Michigan’s tax squeeze redraw the operating map.
Feb 12, 2026
A coordinated health backlash, a Colorado testing reset, banking gaps that still punish growth, and states feeling border pressure fast.
Feb 4, 2026
Oklahoma’s repeal rhetoric collides with years of cleanup work, rescheduling starts showing up in insurance math, and Pennsylvania tries to legalize through the budget lane with a steep entry fee.
Jan 20, 2026
West Virginia collects cannabis revenue and never spends it. Florida’s Medicaid dollars collide with marijuana politics. Hemp faces a hard calendar.
Jan 12, 2026
GOP AGs tee up litigation, banks stay on the sidelines, Texas tests regulation-by-fee, Minnesota counts down to November, and California’s top regulator exits.
Jan 8, 2026
Florida’s 2026 adult-use fight turns on court language and a signature clock. Ohio’s market posts $836M. Banks start lending. Federal hemp limits pull retail into a decision year.
Jan 2, 2026
New York’s legal market is scaling fast. The next win is boring competence, tight enforcement, and a Schedule III court fight waiting in the wings.
