Ballot fights, a dominant medical market, and a legislature working against both at once.
Aug 28, 2026
A sealed grand jury report traces Medicaid settlement money into the campaign that beat legalization. Plus SAM's appeal calendar, Virginia's hemp hearing request, and Alaska's tax by the pound.
Aug 4, 2026
Senate appropriators narrow the November hemp ban to synthetics until December 11, the day their own funding expires. Plus Texas goes federal, a $17M Rochester bust, and Missouri's second union contract.
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 30, 2026
The 2025 federal survey counts 21.4 million daily cannabis consumers. Plus Comer's conditional delay, Total Wine's shelf fight, and the Eighth Circuit tests Hemani.
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 22, 2026
The State Ballot Law Commission puts repeal on the November ballot. Plus Blanche commits to medical only, in writing, and the hemp cliff reaches the bar.
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 17, 2026
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 16, 2026
Sheehy's draft trades the November ban for a 1% crop line, age limits, and a nickel-per-milligram tax. Plus the War Department's rescheduling memo, and thirteen Massachusetts delivery pauses.
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 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 3, 2026
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.
May 27, 2026
Curaleaf moves toward a U.S. uplisting with a 1-for-3 reverse split. Rhode Island writes its cannabis fix and picks a chair to run it. Delaware lawmakers can't agree which channel sells the same molecule. VA puts MDMA back in a randomized trial. Illinois routes hemp through the cannabis system.
May 26, 2026
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 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 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 8, 2026
Federal agents searched Louise Lucas's office and her hemp store Wednesday in a corruption probe Virginia Democrats are already calling political. Plus: Texas hemp lands in court for the third time this week, an Ohio Republican joins a lawsuit against her own party's bill, and New Día heads to Suffolk Superior Court Friday with $13 million in claims hanging over a Cookies-branded equity flagship.
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.
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 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 20, 2026
Massachusetts dissolves its five-member CCC hours before 4/20 | Colorado, Ohio, Texas, and the Senate all move on hemp the same week | Whitney puts 2025's 280E drain at $2.24 billion
Apr 9, 2026
Rhode Island freezes licensure on a constitutional claim | Massachusetts finally chooses governability | Cannabist and Silverpeak land in court on the same day
Apr 3, 2026
FDA stands down for Medicare CBD pilot | Missouri hemp bill survives 7-hour filibuster | Florida's ballot fight ends, fallout begins
Apr 2, 2026
Missouri locks in hemp restrictions beyond the federal floor | SAM loses TRO, CBD pilot launches | Social equity operators sue to block Mass. cannabis repeal
