Capital access, debt, consolidation, and the balance sheets behind the operators making policy news.
Aug 20, 2026
DEA's closing brief turns the opposition's own experts into government exhibits. Plus Aurora's mid-siege shopping trip, Germany's two-week reversal, and New Hampshire's override.
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 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.
Aug 12, 2026
A $272 million unsolicited bid meets a special committee. Plus the alcohol industry endorses the hemp beverage bill, and Virginia defends its cap in Roanoke.
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 28, 2026
North Carolina's law enforcement associations are pushing the House to regulate hemp before November. Plus Texas can enforce its THCA rule, and Vireo pays for Planet 13 in stock.
Jul 24, 2026
An accredited lab pulled Virginia shelf flower and found illegal THC, microbials, and a pesticide that becomes cyanide when smoked. Plus the White House backing Barr describes, Minnesota's plan to regulate a Schedule I product, and 89 percent.
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 21, 2026
Cannabist's five-state liquidation becomes Vireo's 230-store map. Plus Oklahoma's reference lab races its own market, Nebraska prices entry before patients exist, and Menominee's ninth license turns scarce.
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 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.
Jul 15, 2026
Three weeks end in Arlington with the agency's own scientist on the opposition's witness list. Plus Albany's wage board reaches Hochul, and Maryland's equity stores finally open.
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.
Jul 13, 2026
Chad Wolf reframes the November hemp restriction as national security. Plus: Massachusetts repeal makes the ballot by 122 signatures, and DOJ builds a False Claims Act case from PPP paperwork.
Jul 3, 2026
The Senate splits over who regulates hemp, the DOJ names the money behind Schedule I, and a nation founded on the federal-versus-state fight spends its 250th still having it.
Jun 30, 2026
Day one put cannabis's safety on the record the D.C. Circuit will weigh. Plus two House Republicans bet against their own rescheduling block, Virginia's market becomes law, and Massachusetts braces for a repeat repeal cycle.
Jun 29, 2026
Inside the hearing, plus a White House hemp fix and Ohio's ban hitting a Commerce Clause wall.
Jun 23, 2026
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 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 16, 2026
Van Duyne drafts a federal carve-out for hemp drinks as the November cliff nears. Plus a Harvard witness enters the rescheduling fight, Hanna takes CANNRA, and High Tide trades up to a Big 5 bank.
Jun 9, 2026
Idaho's legislature put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot asking voters to give up their own power to legalize cannabis, while Massachusetts fights a push to repeal the market its voters passed. Plus Cresco's $50M bank line and who it leaves out, federal marijuana cases at a record low, and Vireo buying up the supply chain.
Jun 8, 2026
Trulieve carved out its adult-use business to list a medical-only company on the NYSE, the first U.S. operator on a major exchange. Plus the DEA's June 22 roster, Texas hemp back in court, and what a Michigan license is really worth.
Jun 4, 2026
Logan's Roadhouse pours 5-milligram THC cocktails in Texas while the FDA fast-tracks a cannabis pain drug, and Wyoming says rescheduling doesn't bind its statutes.
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.
