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The first adult-use market east of the Mississippi, its Commission, and a framework written from nothing.

🏛️ “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”

Nov 4, 2026

🏛️ “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”

AP called Question 8 for No, so licensed adult-use sales continue in Massachusetts. Plus, Aurora's board backs Organigram's $401 million offer.

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🗳️ “Ballots are the rightful, and peaceful, successors of bullets.”

Nov 3, 2026

🗳️ “Ballots are the rightful, and peaceful, successors of bullets.”

Massachusetts votes on Question 8 today, and the people who set cannabis policy next year are on ballots everywhere. Plus: DEA’s dual-license states, Oregon’s record crop, Michigan’s tax pause.

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🗳️ “Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

Nov 2, 2026

🗳️ “Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

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.

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📊 “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

Oct 29, 2026

📊 “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

DEA briefly posted the page where it will name who applied for federal registration, then pulled it. Plus state hemp raids, Minogue on Question 8, Pennsylvania’s six chains and Halloween.

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🏛️ “Politics is the art of the possible.”

Oct 28, 2026

🏛️ “Politics is the art of the possible.”

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.

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🍗 “A chicken for every pot.”

Oct 27, 2026

🍗 “A chicken for every pot.”

Alberta turned down Curaleaf’s bid to halt Aurora’s share sales. Plus Spanberger on Lucas, a path for out-of-state patients, Michigan’s tax pledge and Georgia’s dispensing window.

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🍳 “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

Oct 26, 2026

🍳 “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

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.

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🍽️ “Enough is as good as a feast.”

Oct 23, 2026

🍽️ “Enough is as good as a feast.”

Virginia’s Senate president pro tem is indicted over a Portsmouth cannabis shop. Plus DEA briefs past Election Day, a UMass report card, New Jersey’s 37-0 and Rhode Island’s hemp quarantine.

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🕰️ “Delay is preferable to error.”

Oct 22, 2026

🕰️ “Delay is preferable to error.”

DEA calls the bid to reopen rescheduling a fishing expedition. Plus Adria Berry steps down, a VA path for Massachusetts veterans, Worcester’s abstainers and Medicare’s CBD clock.

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🗳️ “A week is a long time in politics.”

Oct 21, 2026

🗳️ “A week is a long time in politics.”

Delaware opens its THC drink market today, seven weeks before the federal hemp line. Plus a 71-21 Question 8 poll, SAM’s lobbying, UPS’s hemp terms and Missouri’s ownership gap.

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⌛ “Lost time is never found again.”

Oct 20, 2026

⌛ “Lost time is never found again.”

Colorado’s auditor finds a quarter of 2025 harvest batches never tested for contaminants. Plus Nebraska’s two-year wait, a 16% Question 8 poll, Alabama’s disputed retirement and Illinois infusers.

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🔍 “Trust, but verify.”

Oct 19, 2026

🔍 “Trust, but verify.”

Seven Nevada labs say an unmixed 20 grams can’t speak for a 15-pound lot. Plus 63 legislators on Question 8, Colorado’s audit, Total Wine’s $510,000 and expiring FDA agreements.

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🔨 “Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.”

Oct 15, 2026

🔨 “Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.”

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.

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💵 “Money is the mother’s milk of politics.”

Oct 13, 2026

💵 “Money is the mother’s milk of politics.”

Question 8 has raised $3.5 million, and $1,625 came from Massachusetts residents. Plus North Carolina’s hemp shelves, Katyal for Hello Farms, Crowley and Minnesota’s farmers.

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⏳ “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

Oct 12, 2026

⏳ “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

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.

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📜 "But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man."

Oct 9, 2026

📜 "But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man."

Washington will write a medical certificate its own staff doubts DEA will honor. Plus Ohio's package limits, California's Prop 64 talk, Georgia's registry and the CCC's year.

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📊 "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

Oct 8, 2026

📊 "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

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.

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🥩 "Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing."

Oct 6, 2026

🥩 "Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing."

DEA's new registration form asks medical licensees whether they also handle adult-use product, a question Treasury hasn't answered. Plus Healey's no on Question 8, a New Jersey grower's untagged plants, and Georgia's October 28th delivery date.

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🏛️ DEA judge stays rescheduling to weigh GAO

Sep 30, 2026

🏛️ DEA judge stays rescheduling to weigh GAO

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.

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🧃 Ohio hemp drinks need a license again; Q8 trails 71 to 24

Sep 28, 2026

🧃 Ohio hemp drinks need a license again; Q8 trails 71 to 24

A Sixth Circuit order lets Ohio require licenses and bars it from rejecting sellers by geography. Plus Question 8 polling, CANNRA's case to DEA, and two states checking private labs.

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🧪 Colorado's botanical blind spot

Sep 25, 2026

🧪 Colorado's botanical blind spot

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.

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🏛️ Five months, no DEA guidance

Sep 21, 2026

🏛️ Five months, no DEA guidance

California's top regulator says DEA has sent no formal Schedule III guidance, and Congress's deadline is September 30th. Plus Alabama lets the change through, North Carolina sketches state-run stores, and the Globe's own teen-use data undercuts its headline.

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🍬 A delta-8 label can get you arrested in Austin

Sep 18, 2026

🍬 A delta-8 label can get you arrested in Austin

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

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🌴 Florida overrules its judge, keeps its 22

Sep 16, 2026

🌴 Florida overrules its judge, keeps its 22

The health department licensed the same 22 treatment centers despite a recommended rescore, and the appeal clock is running. Plus Minnesota's medical program doubled through its first adult-use year, North Dakota lawmakers push back on a fee hike, and Nebraska slides into 2027.

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⚖️ A jury said $31.8 million. The Sixth Circuit says no court can collect it

Sep 14, 2026

⚖️ A jury said $31.8 million. The Sixth Circuit says no court can collect it

Hello Farms delivered the harvest, went unpaid, and won $31.8 million from a jury. A federal appeals court now says no court can make Curaleaf's subsidiaries pay a dollar of it. Plus the DEA rule asking a Mississippi owner to fire two good employees, Nebraska's preemption case ending before it starts, 37 new medical dispensaries in Illinois, and Ricky Williams on The Hybrid

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