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Registrations, scheduling, and how the agency actually behaves when cannabis policy lands on its desk.

Nov 3, 2026

🗳️ “Ballots are the rightful, and peaceful, successors of bullets.”

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

🗳️ “Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

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 29, 2026

📊 “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

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 9, 2026

📜 "But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man."

Washington will write a medical certificate its own staff doubts DEA will honor. Plus Ohio's package limits, California's Prop 64 talk, Georgia's registry and the CCC's year.

Oct 8, 2026

📊 "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

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 7, 2026

🗂️ "Tell me what company thou keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art."

DEA denied a Colorado manufacturer over its sister company's adult-use sales, calling it diversion. Plus SAM's Medicare appeal, Germany's Exilby rule, Oklahoma grow cleanups and a labor peace suit.

Oct 6, 2026

🥩 "Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing."

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.

Sep 24, 2026

🏛️ 84 for 84, and no manual

GAO says DEA followed HHS on every final scheduling rule it checked, with almost nothing written down about how. Plus: Missouri's missing scorer notes, Curaleaf's full-page ask to Hochul, and Delaware's new THC drink aisle.

Sep 14, 2026

⚖️ A jury said $31.8 million. The Sixth Circuit says no court can collect it

Hello Farms delivered the harvest, went unpaid, and won $31.8 million from a jury. A federal appeals court now says no court can make Curaleaf's subsidiaries pay a dollar of it. Plus the DEA rule asking a Mississippi owner to fire two good employees, Nebraska's preemption case ending before it starts, 37 new medical dispensaries in Illinois, and Ricky Williams on The Hybrid

Sep 1, 2026

🏛️ Andy Harris can't amend the hemp delay, so he's voting against the rule

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 20, 2026

📜 DEA rests its case with the other side's witnesses

DEA's closing brief turns the opposition's own experts into government exhibits. Plus Aurora's mid-siege shopping trip, Germany's two-week reversal, and New Hampshire's override.

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 18, 2026

📮 Georgia asks the mail to carry medical cannabis

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 13, 2026

🏢 Rent is deductible. Landlords noticed.

Medical operators can deduct rent again, and their landlords aren't volunteering anything. Plus Fall River's $4.6 million fee bill, Ballou rules by Friday, and Budd names his price.

Jul 28, 2026

🚨 The sheriffs want the hemp bill

North Carolina's law enforcement associations are pushing the House to regulate hemp before November. Plus Texas can enforce its THCA rule, and Vireo pays for Planet 13 in stock.

Jul 27, 2026

🔎 Indiana's cannabis money, under oath

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 17, 2026

📜 Booker's answer to Schedule III

Descheduling filed one day after the record closed. Plus: New Jersey revokes one license and extends Curaleaf's, Missouri hemp sues in federal court, and hemp drinks finally have a dataset.

Jul 15, 2026

🏁 Rescheduling rests its case. The DEA argued against itself.

Three weeks end in Arlington with the agency's own scientist on the opposition's witness list. Plus Albany's wage board reaches Hochul, and Maryland's equity stores finally open.

Jul 3, 2026

🎆 Two hemp bills, one deadline, a country turning 250

The Senate splits over who regulates hemp, the DOJ names the money behind Schedule I, and a nation founded on the federal-versus-state fight spends its 250th still having it.

Jul 2, 2026

🧪 The government defends its record, twice

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.

Jul 1, 2026

🔬 The government's own science, on the stand

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

📝 Rescheduling: DEA defends what it fought

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.

Jun 29, 2026

⚖️ Rescheduling hearings begin

Inside the hearing, plus a White House hemp fix and Ohio's ban hitting a Commerce Clause wall.

Jun 24, 2026

⚖️ Opponents only, by the rules

DEA seated only reform's critics for the June 29th hearing, and a standing rule is why. Plus Durrett reads the two-tier order for Nevada, Perris tests cannabis billboard bans at the Ninth Circuit, and Virginia prices public use at $250.

Jun 3, 2026

🚪 Hemp's easy exits close

The Rules Committee blocks the hemp delay amendments, but the coalition isn't done. Plus Landry jails public smoking, an HHC suit hits DEA, and AYR hands three more states to its lenders.

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