Minnesota

A late launch built on an early hemp market, plus tribal compacts other states are now copying.

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.

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.

Oct 16, 2026

⏰ “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

Illinois enforces its 0.4 mg hemp line November 12th, a month before Washington. Plus New Jersey’s two bills, Colorado’s pesticide vapes and a dark-money ad against Sheehy.

Oct 14, 2026

⚖️ “The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.”

DEA will take the GAO report and nothing that comes with it. Plus Oklahoma’s lab doubts, a $146 million price on hemp drinks, and Minnesota’s medical shelf list.

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.

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.

Aug 24, 2026

🧾 294 corrections, in red ink

Julius orders 294 corrections to the rescheduling transcript before he recommends. Plus O'Brien sues the treasurer, New Mexico flips its tracking switch, and Minnesota's hemp count falls to 46.

Aug 12, 2026

🏢 Curaleaf goes hostile, and Aurora forms a committee

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.

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.

Aug 10, 2026

🗓️ December 11th. Now the House.

Sixty-one votes moved the federal hemp ban to December 11, and the House inherits the date. Square tells merchants to clear hemp by October 15 anyway, Rhode Island reopens retail licensing with the sunk costs unpaid, and a THC test can now open a child-welfare file.

Jul 24, 2026

🧪 The lab report Virginia didn't run

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 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 17, 2026

⚖️ Standing could sink Schedule III

An industry-side analysis says the D.C. Circuit could stay and reverse rescheduling if standing clears. Plus the FDA's missing hemp lines, Virginia's market caught in a data-center budget fight, and what rescheduling still hasn't done for banking.

Jun 8, 2026

🏦 Trulieve didn't wait for June 29

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 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 29, 2026

🏛️ Virginia's end-run around Spanberger

Surovell and Lucas float folding cannabis sales into the July 1 budget to box the governor in. Plus: Congress leans on the IRS over 280E, ATACH lawyers up for the DEA hearing, and Tennessee's THCA ban hits July 1.

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 27, 2026

🪙 Curaleaf moves first

Curaleaf moves toward a U.S. uplisting with a 1-for-3 reverse split. Rhode Island writes its cannabis fix and picks a chair to run it. Delaware lawmakers can't agree which channel sells the same molecule. VA puts MDMA back in a randomized trial. Illinois routes hemp through the cannabis system.

May 22, 2026

🏦 Maryland's side door

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.

May 19, 2026

🏛️ Congress Built This Middle

Forty-one groups tell Congress Schedule III doesn't finish the job. Plus: Connecticut's mold files show what oversight actually costs, Minnesota merges its supply chains, and Colorado still can't open a door past retail.

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.

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.

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 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 16, 2026

🚪 Pure Oasis Closes Owing $400K To DOR And $2.2M In Judgments, Colorado MED Targets Hemp Inversion

Pure Oasis closes under $400K in back taxes and a $2.2M judgment | Colorado MED targets hemp inversion and $1 transfer pricing | Rhode Island appeals federal injunction halting its license lottery