Member-state pilots, bloc-level rules, and a dozen countries regulating cannabis in a dozen directions.
Jul 20, 2026
Trulieve, Curaleaf, Verano, and Green Thumb wire $11.5M to a Trump-linked ag PAC. Plus Oklahoma seals a shop over tags, Michigan closes a case with Massachusetts, and Europe flunks its own lab test.
Jul 14, 2026
Judge Helmick's injunction reaches past the ten plaintiffs to anyone selling their products. Plus Morgan Tweet's federal framework, Pennsylvania's budget shuts the door again, and Curaleaf takes Spain's first two numbers.
Jun 10, 2026
Kentucky's House whip wants cannabis licensees prosecuted for following Beshear's medical-marijuana order. Plus Texas hemp back by court order, Ohio's veto fight, and psychedelics at the Pentagon.
May 21, 2026
A Worcester Superior Court judge says Massachusetts municipalities had to document Community Impact Fees costs under the prior statute too. Curaleaf can sue to find out if they did.
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 12, 2026
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
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.
Feb 27, 2026
Congress weighs a hemp delay, California slips again, and New York bets on stability. Plus labor risk, Europe strategy, and capital discipline.
Feb 10, 2026
Tax bets get bolder, capital gets pricier, and ballot politics get louder. Today’s briefs track where money and process collide.
Dec 17, 2025
Trump weighs a faster Schedule III route, banks stay cautious, and hemp fights for standards before the ban bites.
Dec 10, 2025
Ohio criminalizes border shopping, Congress clamps down on hemp, Medicare eyes CBD, and courts and councils quietly redraw the cannabis map.
Dec 5, 2025
Rescheduling lingers on Trump’s desk while states lean on weed taxes, courts freeze hemp bans, and foreign regulators set standards U.S. markets will have to meet.
Nov 21, 2025
A federal shortcut on hemp now shapes state politics, agency decisions, and industry strategy, turning a quiet provision into a national flashpoint for cannabis and hemp markets.
Nov 17, 2025
Washington drew a new THC line. Now states might decide what survives. Kentucky defends farmers, Michigan rethinks beverages, and Tennessee and Rhode Island pause before the next move.
Nov 14, 2025
Congress reopened the government by banning most hemp THC products and starting a one year clock. Today we map what survives, what does not, and how serious operators should play the new terrain.
Nov 10, 2025
McConnell used the shutdown to push hemp prohibition, turning a $28 billion market into campaign collateral.
Oct 29, 2025
Rand Paul vows to block government reopening unless hemp bans are stripped, turning a shutdown fight into a defining test for federal cannabis policy.
Sep 22, 2025
Cornbread Hemp takes on Tennessee’s three-tier system, Texas hemp operators outmaneuver a THC ban, and Arizona valuations show why scarcity shapes cannabis strategy.
Sep 19, 2025
Rep. Donalds blocks D.C. youth from second chances, NCIA pushes 280E relief, and our deep dive decodes privilege protection in federal cannabis policy.
Sep 18, 2025
Trump’s drug czar pick keeps cannabis rescheduling “on the table” while the DEA process remains frozen. Ohio exposes nearly one million patient records, Alabama hearings drag on four years after legalization, and lawmakers rediscover cannabis reform only when Trump brings it up.
Sep 16, 2025
Republicans kneecap their own president on rescheduling, California doubles down on hemp bans, Maryland courts clear the way for crackdowns, and unions quietly become cannabis’s next power brokers.
Sep 15, 2025
Tennessee builds a red-state hemp template, Rhode Island bets on scarcity, and packaging rules create environmental contradictions.
Sep 12, 2025
Florida’s booming medical market collides with DeSantis’s prohibition playbook, while Washington dithers and states improvise their own fixes.
Sep 11, 2025
Abbott takes THC regulation into his own hands, New York faces a class action crisis, and states wrestle with enforcement, equity, and market structure.
Sep 8, 2025
New York pivots to Metrc, Pennsylvania gridlock stalls reform, Abbott hints at hemp rules, and Thailand’s “Cannabis King” takes power. Plus: how U.S. rescheduling could unleash global supply chain disruption.
