A fast conversion from medical to adult-use, and an equity round whose dispensaries are only now opening their doors.
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 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 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 23, 2026
Their bill repeals the November ban outright instead of delaying it, and the White House is behind it. Plus North Carolina writes the ban into its own code, and Tennessee farmers stop waiting.
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.
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.
May 28, 2026
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 22, 2026
A bankruptcy court hands Maryland a permit transfer the state was not planning to allow. Federal labor law settles against cannabis exceptionalism. Colorado cultivators sue over the excise tax math. Minnesota loses a lab.
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 13, 2026
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 8, 2026
DEA marijuana rescheduling stalled again | Missouri and Ohio hemp bans face legal pushback | Baltimore's $35M cannabis reparations fund still untouched
Mar 31, 2026
FDA's CBD file finally moves. New Jersey reshapes its hemp beverage channel. Michigan's 40% tax burden hits the campaign trail.
Mar 17, 2026
IRS pressure hits MSOs, hemp supply tightens, and states move ahead without federal clarity.
Feb 24, 2026
Rhode Island in court, Florida resets, Ohio counts signatures, and hospitals prepare for rescheduling.
Feb 11, 2026
Massachusetts drama, federal checkpoints, Florida court fights, and the growing hemp beverage lane. Stability is scarce. Process still matters.
Feb 6, 2026
Low-dose is becoming the mainstream playbook. Gun rights litigation keeps moving. States are choosing between repair plans and crackdowns.
Feb 4, 2026
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.
Jan 12, 2026
GOP AGs tee up litigation, banks stay on the sidelines, Texas tests regulation-by-fee, Minnesota counts down to November, and California’s top regulator exits.
Dec 23, 2025
The new 0.4 mg per-package THC cap collides with planting decisions happening now. Plus DOT keeps drug testing rules, and states keep building low-dose beverage lanes.
Dec 19, 2025
Schedule III is the headline. The work is DEA rulemaking, Hill oversight, and a CMS CBD pilot colliding with Congress’s new hemp definition.
Nov 28, 2025
Congress tightens hemp as holiday carts fill up, and courts, clinicians, and insurers quietly reset where cannabis risk really lives.
Nov 21, 2025
A federal shortcut on hemp now shapes state politics, agency decisions, and industry strategy, turning a quiet provision into a national flashpoint for cannabis and hemp markets.
Nov 13, 2025
Congress ended the shutdown by putting hemp on a one-year clock. The next 365 days decide who still has a business.
