Indiana

No program, a hemp market, and residents driving to Michigan and Illinois.

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 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 29, 2026

⚖️ Rescheduling hearings begin

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

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.

Jun 1, 2026

🌿 "None of us can advise our licensees"

Six weeks after Schedule III, state regulators say they can't advise their own licensees, with the DEA hearing two weeks out. Plus three Republican plays to stop November's hemp ban and Robinhood's open door.

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 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 8, 2026

🚨 The FBI walked into a state senator's cannabis shop

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 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

Apr 30, 2026

🏛️ DEA's Dispensary Portal Forces Operators To Pick A Lane

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 28, 2026

🏛️ DEA Opens The Federal Medical Lane, And Bill Barr Is Already Lining Up The Lawsuit

Medical operators get a federal protection lane with federal supervision attached | SAM retains Bill Barr to challenge Blanche's rescheduling order | Massachusetts industry organizes against a repeal effort built on misleading attacks

Apr 27, 2026

💰 Marijuana Rescheduling: Treasury Targets 280E First

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 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 17, 2026

🧯 A Lame-Duck Freeze, A Reshaped Retail Launch, And A Hemp Bill That Tests Federalism

Massachusetts freezes cultivation before dissolution | Virginia reshapes retail | Rand Paul readies a states'-rights hemp bill

Apr 9, 2026

⚖️ Rhode Island Freezes Cannabis Licensure as Courts Settle What Washington Won't

Rhode Island freezes licensure on a constitutional claim | Massachusetts finally chooses governability | Cannabist and Silverpeak land in court on the same day

Mar 30, 2026

⚖️ 99 Days of Silence on Schedule III, Ohio Exports Its Hemp Economy, Mississippi Blocks Terminal Patients

DOJ ghosts Congress on rescheduling. Ohio bans the drink and loses the jobs. Mississippi says no to the patients who need it most.

Mar 20, 2026

🚫 Ohio Draws The Line, Washington Hesitates, Markets Keep Moving

Ohio locks in its ban, CMS tests CBD limits, and states redraw who gets to sell what

Feb 27, 2026

🧾 Hemp Deadline Politics, California Slide, And A New Hand In New York

Congress weighs a hemp delay, California slips again, and New York bets on stability. Plus labor risk, Europe strategy, and capital discipline.

Feb 25, 2026

🍺 280E Reality, Federal Gun Law, And THC’s Pressure On Beer

IRS posture stays firm, Virginia and Kentucky accelerate, hemp tightens, and brewers finally quantify what THC is taking.

Feb 12, 2026

🚨 The Panic Cycle Returns, Colorado Tightens The Sample

A coordinated health backlash, a Colorado testing reset, banking gaps that still punish growth, and states feeling border pressure fast.

Feb 4, 2026

🚨 Oklahoma Repeal Talk, Rescheduling Money, And Pennsylvania's Price Tag

Oklahoma’s repeal rhetoric collides with years of cleanup work, rescheduling starts showing up in insurance math, and Pennsylvania tries to legalize through the budget lane with a steep entry fee.

Feb 2, 2026

🧫 Michigan Testing Under Fire, Colorado Inversion Flags Rise, Ohio Hemp Drinks Head For The Exit

Michigan puts the lab lane on notice. Colorado’s vape questions tighten the supply chain story. Ohio’s hemp beverage ban hits in March, with Congress still debating the national THC math.

Jan 20, 2026

🧾 West Virginia’s $34M Freeze, Florida’s Money Trail, and the Hemp Clock

West Virginia collects cannabis revenue and never spends it. Florida’s Medicaid dollars collide with marijuana politics. Hemp faces a hard calendar.

Jan 19, 2026

⚖️ Schedule III Pressure, Hemp THC Cliff, And Circuit Split Risk

On MLK Day, a sober look at the rules that shape opportunity: hemp deadlines, rescheduling process, and a circuit split that could redraw licensing risk.

Jan 16, 2026

🗳️ Florida’s Audit War, GOP Hemp Split, and New York's Zombie Rules

DeSantis weaponizes the fraud unit, McConnell strikes back, and Massachusetts fights a repeal effort.