Milligram caps, age gates, and the bills rewriting where intoxicating hemp is allowed to be sold.
Nov 2, 2026
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 28, 2026
Griffith wants the hemp fix in a lame-duck reconciliation bill. Plus Question 8’s price tag, Boston’s new cannabis chair, Nevada’s tax study and Jeffries’ cannabis donors.
Oct 26, 2026
Forty-six days out, the hemp fight is bigger than its famous faces. Plus North Carolina’s state-run store idea, Booker and DEA, a Massachusetts testing draft and Rhode Island delivery.
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.
Oct 15, 2026
Nebraska’s first crop is coming in before the rest of the program. Plus Wu against Question 8, DEA’s Wednesday deadline and ATACH cheering the hemp cliff.
Oct 12, 2026
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 8, 2026
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 5, 2026
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 30, 2026
Chief ALJ Derek Julius paused cannabis rescheduling to decide whether GAO belongs in the record. Plus Oregon's hemp seed supplier, a badge that travels in Massachusetts, and Missouri's consent rule.
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 18, 2026
Austin police say the package is probable cause and the lab comes later. Plus New York's $3.89 million in unpaid invoices and a Massachusetts rewrite
Sep 15, 2026
The Cannabis Office set the date, closed the exit into the licensed market, and offered to come watch the destruction. Plus twelve charged in Pennsylvania, cannabis money buying ads that never say cannabis, and a million square feet nobody inspected
Sep 8, 2026
The December hemp coalition gets assembled product by product, and every ally arrives with a condition. Plus Maryland's rules go final with six days of runway, New Mexico operators itemize the cutover, and Switzerland's pharmacy pilot reports in.
Sep 4, 2026
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.
Sep 3, 2026
Not guilty twice in Boston, in three and a half hours. Plus the two lobbies name their December terms, Aurora's answer to Curaleaf, and New York starts paying for the tags.
Sep 2, 2026
The ban moves to December 11th, into a lame duck. Plus the Tompkins defense rests on Cabral, Newsom signs California's packaging bill, and ten states carry 60 percent of cannabis arrests.
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 31, 2026
Travis County sent the hemp plaintiffs back to narrow their own order while DSHS keeps detaining product under a word its rules never define. Plus the House votes the hemp delay under suspension, and Sand Springs had a stop order.
Aug 25, 2026
The Senate bought hemp until December 11th and the House may take it back. Plus FDA's missing definitions, California's packaging test, and Tennessee's 99 percent.
Aug 21, 2026
The first general-electorate number on Question 8 lands the day the repeal's funder makes his case on GBH. Plus Booker and Trump's two federal tracks, Texas hemp's third lawsuit, and Tennessee's $54 million hemp tax hole.
Aug 19, 2026
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
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 17, 2026
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 14, 2026
Hawaii's hemp crackdown came with a paper trail, Ohio's customers still drive to Michigan, and the Rogers family bought Levia back. Virginia's shelves wait on a judge in Roanoke.
Aug 13, 2026
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.
