Maine

A small adult-use market with an unusual caregiver history and persistent questions about supply.

Aug 17, 2026

📏 Virginia's hemp cap is law, and the judge explains why he let it land

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 11, 2026

🥤 Five milligrams, eight cents, three tiers

Van Duyne and Landsman give hemp THC drinks an alcohol-style framework. Plus Houston counts signatures, Texas keeps enforcing, and Michigan's tax closes five stores.

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 25, 2026

⚖️ Hemp rides the war bill

A hemp fix is riding $87.6B in war funding to Speaker Johnson's desk. Plus the DEA won't defend its own harms witness, banks back away from hemp, and Michigan's medical market nearly vanishes.

Jun 23, 2026

⚖️ Curaleaf wins the argument and loses the motion

Plus Virginia's market finally clears the legislature, out-of-state money drives Maine's repeal push, Missouri rebuilds its equity licenses, and the legal cannabis workforce shrinks for the first time.

Jun 11, 2026

🏛️ The Cannabis Control Board, revived and wounded

Laughlin's Cannabis Control Board died 27-23 when co-sponsors crossed, then revived on a reconsider. Plus a rescheduling freeze bid, three New York wins, and a study on personalized cannabis dosing.

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 20, 2026

🏛️ Healey owns it now.

DeLobato, Wilson, and Harding take the rebuilt Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, and the executive director now reports to the chair. DOJ moves to claw back TerrAscend's $8 million refund. California writes a Schedule III workaround. Vermont keeps the 30% cap. Spanberger vetoes Virginia retail.

May 15, 2026

🧪 NJ comes for the labs

The Cannabis Regulatory Commission is using public commission discussion to do enforcement statute alone could not. Collins pulls Patel onto Maine grow houses. The House sends Veterans back to a conference room that has stripped it every year since 2015. Healey will post the deadbeats. Good Day Farm faces a second antitrust suit. The hemp clock keeps ticking.

May 13, 2026

🌿 Schedule III does not touch hemp

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.

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 24, 2026

🏛️ Trump Reschedules Medical Cannabis And Signals A New Hemp Floor On The Same Day

Washington reopened every major cannabis and hemp question today and answered none of them | DOJ moves state-licensed medical marijuana to Schedule III while routing adult-use to a June 29th hearing | The 3 mg CMS Medicare standard is the clearest signal yet about where a revised federal hemp floor might land

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 21, 2026

📊 Blanche Takes The Rescheduling Pen, Colorado Considers Beverages

Todd Blanche replaces Bondi with direct incentives to deliver on rescheduling. Colorado considers hemp beverages in bars while MPP's new data shows the arrest gap at 8-to-1.

Apr 14, 2026

🧪 Colorado Tightens Its Own Marijuana Supply Chain Against Hemp Inversion

Colorado's Marijuana Enforcement Division opens emergency rulemaking against licensed operators slipping hemp-derived THC into the regulated channel | Maine's House votes down medical cannabis testing for what feels like the tenth time | New Jersey redraws its hemp line but leaves liquor-store beverages in place through the federal deadline

Apr 13, 2026

🏛️ Healey's Signature Starts A 30-Day Clock On New CCC Leadership

A Travis County judge temporarily blocks Texas from enforcing its THCA hemp ban | NJEDA opens a $15 million loan pipeline that makes the state a cannabis creditor | Oregon writes medical cannabis into hospice and residential care with HB 4142

Apr 7, 2026

🏛️ Massachusetts Resets Its Cannabis Agency. The Old Guard Goes With It.

Mass. cleans house and rewrites its cannabis statute | NY retailers finally pulling $4M each | Ohio's hemp fight narrows to a single county courthouse

Apr 3, 2026

🏛️ FDA Clears CBD Path for Medicare as Missouri Hemp Ban Heads to Governor

FDA stands down for Medicare CBD pilot | Missouri hemp bill survives 7-hour filibuster | Florida's ballot fight ends, fallout begins

Mar 27, 2026

⚖️ Virginia's Adult-Use Fight, Ohio's Hemp Ban Goes Live, and Missouri's Enforcement Theory Takes Shape

Virginia's equity clock is ticking. Ohio's hemp ban landed. Missouri sorts its market one threat letter at a time.

Mar 12, 2026

📉 Cannabis Prices Crash While Washington Still Holds The Keys

Colorado and Massachusetts show what oversupply looks like, while Congress, banks, and states wrestle with the next phase of cannabis policy.

Feb 24, 2026

⚖️ Courts, Calendars, And A Market In Motion

Rhode Island in court, Florida resets, Ohio counts signatures, and hospitals prepare for rescheduling.

Feb 19, 2026

🌾 Hemp THC Drinks, New York Liquor Stores, and the Next Compliance Squeeze

Colorado calls the federal hemp cap unworkable, New York floats a liquor store lane for 5mg THC drinks, Ohio goes after MSOs, and states tighten the screws on testing, audits, and diversion.

Feb 5, 2026

🗳️ Ohio Referendum Freeze, 280E Credit Loss, And The Hemp Rulebook Gap

Ohio races the clock to suspend SB 56, a federal court tightens 280E relief exposure, and hemp policy keeps widening the uncertainty gap from CBD to drinks.

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.