Connecticut

A compact market, an equity joint-venture licensing structure of its own design, and enforcement that keeps turning up fraud.

Oct 12, 2026

⏳ “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

DOJ and rescheduling’s challengers want briefing to run into February 2027. Plus NCL and MPP split on hemp, Illinois’ Metrc numbers, a Jersey City TRO and the CCC’s cultivation pause.

Oct 5, 2026

🤺 "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

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 29, 2026

🧪 The COA, on request. Virginia's $250 fine

Newsom signed AB 1965, putting certificates of analysis in customers' hands and product under DCC's own tests. Plus Virginia's tenfold public-use fine, Connecticut's out-of-state patients, and 6,300 plants in Estancia.

Sep 28, 2026

🧃 Ohio hemp drinks need a license again; Q8 trails 71 to 24

A Sixth Circuit order lets Ohio require licenses and bars it from rejecting sellers by geography. Plus Question 8 polling, CANNRA's case to DEA, and two states checking private labs.

Sep 23, 2026

🧮 Michigan's ounce costs $60.33 or $160

The state average and the shelf price are counting different transactions, and only one of them tells you what happened to the wholesale tax. Plus a receiver holds PharmaCann's Maryland licenses, a cannabis super PAC's $11.8 million in cash, and the wage board bill still on Hochul's desk.

Sep 4, 2026

🖊️ Signed. The hemp clock now runs to December 11th

Trump signs the four-week hemp reprieve while synthetics keep their November date. Plus the Eleventh Circuit revives Georgia's licensing fight, a sheriff's transcript that cuts both ways, and Sonoma's drones meet a warrant.

Aug 19, 2026

🏛️ DEA asks its own judge to hurry Schedule III

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 17, 2026

📏 Virginia's hemp cap is law, and the judge explains why he let it land

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 12, 2026

🏢 Curaleaf goes hostile, and Aurora forms a committee

A $272 million unsolicited bid meets a special committee. Plus the alcohol industry endorses the hemp beverage bill, and Virginia defends its cap in Roanoke.

Aug 10, 2026

🗓️ December 11th. Now the House.

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.

Jun 23, 2026

⚖️ Curaleaf wins the argument and loses the motion

Plus Virginia's market finally clears the legislature, out-of-state money drives Maine's repeal push, Missouri rebuilds its equity licenses, and the legal cannabis workforce shrinks for the first time.

Jun 22, 2026

🔫 9-0 on cannabis and guns. ATF moves next.

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.

May 28, 2026

⚖️ Indiana, Nebraska, Louisiana, and Bill Barr

Indiana, Nebraska, and Louisiana AGs went to the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday, and by Wednesday the court had consolidated their case with SAM and NDASA's. Cruz, newly the senior Texas senator after Cornyn's blowout loss, says hemp reversal is uphill. New Jersey courts split on cannabis hiring. Minnesota's omnibus hits Walz's desk. Maryland arms ATCC with seizure power.

May 26, 2026

🧪 The label test in Massachusetts

Massachusetts puts a 75 to 125 percent band on THC labels. A federal judge tosses the Medicare hemp suit. Spanberger gets a poll she did not want. Scutari moves a 200-milligram hemp bottle.

May 22, 2026

🏦 Maryland's side door

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

🏛️ Congress Built This Middle

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 15, 2026

🧪 NJ comes for the labs

The Cannabis Regulatory Commission is using public commission discussion to do enforcement statute alone could not. Collins pulls Patel onto Maine grow houses. The House sends Veterans back to a conference room that has stripped it every year since 2015. Healey will post the deadbeats. Good Day Farm faces a second antitrust suit. The hemp clock keeps ticking.

May 12, 2026

🔫 ATF gives. DOJ takes.

ATF rewrites the gun form while DOJ defends the underlying ban at SCOTUS. Texas admits the medical cannabis scoring methodology was contested internally. Connecticut positions for federal psychedelic matching funds. Massachusetts repeal moves from Beacon Hill to clipboards. Plus DEA's supply-chain forms, EPA on the pesticide clock, and a hat tip to Paul Urbish.

May 7, 2026

🏛️ Laughlin lost his Democrats

Senate Democrats walked off SB 49 earlier this week after the bill's amended language locked in the regulatory agency without committing to legalization. The 6-5 vote was 10-1 in October. Plus: the CRS sentence the industry isn't quoting, Connecticut's twenty-day potency round trip, and SAM's pivot from Arizona to federal court.

May 6, 2026

🚨 The White House Goes After Synthetic Hemp In Its 2026 Drug Strategy

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

May 5, 2026

⚖️ The $1.6 Billion Question Reaches The Massachusetts SJC

Operators argue at the SJC that the SAM-funded repeal initiative is unconstitutional | The White House Drug Strategy talks tough on cannabis without mentioning Schedule III | A 320-page lawsuit names Cresco, GTI, and Verano

May 4, 2026

⚖️ Missouri Has A Cannabis Cartel, Two Cultivators Say

A class action targets the state's largest dispensary chain | DEA opens a 60-day federal door - and a disclosure trap | Virginia bets it can launch adult-use sales in eight months

Apr 29, 2026

🚦 Wisconsin Sent $36 Million In Cannabis Taxes To Illinois Last Year

Wisconsin sent $36M in cannabis taxes to Illinois in 2024 | Federal prosecutors charge 51 in Oklahoma marijuana diversion case | Hemp beverage operators face a self-policing reckoning before federal rules close the door

Apr 22, 2026

🚨 Virginia's sponsors ready to walk, Delaware catches an Arizona scheme, Pritzker and Beshear campaign on 4/20

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

📊 Blanche Takes The Rescheduling Pen, Colorado Considers Beverages

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.