The oldest adult-use market in the country, and what maturity looks like once growth stops.
Oct 29, 2026
DEA briefly posted the page where it will name who applied for federal registration, then pulled it. Plus state hemp raids, Minogue on Question 8, Pennsylvania’s six chains and Halloween.
Oct 20, 2026
Colorado’s auditor finds a quarter of 2025 harvest batches never tested for contaminants. Plus Nebraska’s two-year wait, a 16% Question 8 poll, Alabama’s disputed retirement and Illinois infusers.
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 16, 2026
Illinois enforces its 0.4 mg hemp line November 12th, a month before Washington. Plus New Jersey’s two bills, Colorado’s pesticide vapes and a dark-money ad against Sheehy.
Sep 25, 2026
A Denver lab found the solvent in August. Colorado's test for it still hasn't started. Plus: Montana puts residency on the payroll, Hilgers subpoenas a Colorado dispensary, and Massachusetts funds the CCC.
Sep 7, 2026
Nebraska's high court rejects the last challenge to the 2024 medical cannabis petitions. Plus a federal judge enjoins Ohio's hemp ban, a Colorado liver-injury story that was never about cannabis, and Texas gets an October date.
Sep 1, 2026
The hemp delay is on suspension tonight, so Andy Harris is voting no on the rule that carries the rest of the week. Plus DEA's 26 questions for Colorado dispensaries, the Sand Springs affidavit, and Perullo on cross.
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 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.
Aug 3, 2026
Senate appropriators move the cliff to December 11th, and the House bill is silent. Plus Verano sues New Jersey, Virginia counts its inventory, and Trulieve's neighbors go to the county.
Jul 29, 2026
A federal suit says Charlotte police were warned in 2021 that odor alone wasn't probable cause. Plus SNDL forecloses into the world's largest store count, and hemp's wholesale map fractures.
Jul 23, 2026
Their bill repeals the November ban outright instead of delaying it, and the White House is behind it. Plus North Carolina writes the ban into its own code, and Tennessee farmers stop waiting.
Jul 21, 2026
Cannabist's five-state liquidation becomes Vireo's 230-store map. Plus Oklahoma's reference lab races its own market, Nebraska prices entry before patients exist, and Menominee's ninth license turns scarce.
Jul 2, 2026
The DEA hands opponents the floor as DOJ's stay answer comes due, then breaks for the holiday. Plus Pillen signs Nebraska's rules, Delaware overrides its own governor on zoning, and the alcohol lobby moves on hemp drinks.
Jun 22, 2026
Inside the Hemani decision and the two ATF rules it now reshapes. Plus Vermont's interstate runway, Missouri moving $71.9M while $95M sits idle, and Colorado teen use at a fresh low.
Jun 11, 2026
Laughlin's Cannabis Control Board died 27-23 when co-sponsors crossed, then revived on a reconsider. Plus a rescheduling freeze bid, three New York wins, and a study on personalized cannabis dosing.
Jun 5, 2026
The White House asked Congress to update the hemp definition and left the key line undefined, reopening the fight before November. Plus New York's anti-inversion law, Michigan's tax shortfall, and the 280E fight.
May 22, 2026
A bankruptcy court hands Maryland a permit transfer the state was not planning to allow. Federal labor law settles against cannabis exceptionalism. Colorado cultivators sue over the excise tax math. Minnesota loses a lab.
May 19, 2026
Forty-one groups tell Congress Schedule III doesn't finish the job. Plus: Connecticut's mold files show what oversight actually costs, Minnesota merges its supply chains, and Colorado still can't open a door past retail.
May 18, 2026
A Fort Lee doctor wrote cannabis authorizations for 95% of his patients, kids included, and prohibitionists now have their rescheduling exhibit. Plus Barr names who really doesn't want a hemp lane, House of Saka's Chapter 7, and Colorado can't measure its own inversion problem.
May 11, 2026
Oklahoma becomes the first state to translate rescheduling into a hard compliance directive, with a January 2027 enforcement clock | The drug czar pulls the federal framing back to "still illegal" | SAM v. Kennedy heads to the bench on the CMS cannabinoid pilot | Susan Burns surfaces the $14.3B luxury spa segment hidden inside the hemp debate
Apr 30, 2026
Oklahoma sets a 60-day clock and Trulieve files first | South Carolina could stumble into a medical program | Indiana's $2 billion border problem travels
Apr 27, 2026
Treasury signals 280E relief and an apportionment fight for mixed cannabis operators | Trump asks Congress to carve CBD out of the November hemp ban | MMJ's CMS suit previews the agency collision Schedule III created
Apr 22, 2026
Virginia's sponsors may kill the bill rather than accept Spanberger's rewrite | Delaware catches an Arizona licensing scheme | Pritzker and Beshear spend 4/20 building their cannabis records
Apr 21, 2026
Todd Blanche replaces Bondi with direct incentives to deliver on rescheduling. Colorado considers hemp beverages in bars while MPP's new data shows the arrest gap at 8-to-1.
