Nebraska

Medical cannabis by ballot, an implementation nobody is rushing, and litigation at every step.

Sep 7, 2026

⚖️ The signatures stand in Nebraska

Nebraska's high court rejects the last challenge to the 2024 medical cannabis petitions. Plus a federal judge enjoins Ohio's hemp ban, a Colorado liver-injury story that was never about cannabis, and Texas gets an October date.

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.

Jul 21, 2026

🔁 Vireo buys the wind-down

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 2, 2026

🧪 The government defends its record, twice

The DEA hands opponents the floor as DOJ's stay answer comes due, then breaks for the holiday. Plus Pillen signs Nebraska's rules, Delaware overrides its own governor on zoning, and the alcohol lobby moves on hemp drinks.

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 24, 2026

⚖️ Opponents only, by the rules

DEA seated only reform's critics for the June 29th hearing, and a standing rule is why. Plus Durrett reads the two-tier order for Nevada, Perris tests cannabis billboard bans at the Ninth Circuit, and Virginia prices public use at $250.

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 22, 2026

🔫 9-0 on cannabis and guns. ATF moves next.

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 2, 2026

⚖️ Louisiana's quiet exit

Murrill withdraws days after Trump ends a Louisiana Senate career, a third challenge hits the D.C. Circuit, Illinois operators move SB 3222, Sherrill signs the hemp-drink law, and Japan bans CBN.

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 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 14, 2026

🗳️ Stop counting bills. Count votes.

The 2026 midterms will matter more for cannabis than the next bill filed in Congress, because bills only move when the political environment supplies a path. Plus: Cannabis Caucus co-chairs speak past a Republican wall, Nevada quantifies its $80 million gaming barrier, five MSOs file DEA registrations, Stitt holds an ibogaine trials bill, and Bonta files 66 felony counts against an $80 million unlicensed operation.

May 1, 2026

🌾 House Passes Farm Bill, Hemp Deadline Holds for November

Farm Bill clears House without moving the November cap | DEA registration asks operators to disclose years of federal exposure | Trump pulls Casey Means and nominates Nicole Saphier

Apr 29, 2026

🚦 Wisconsin Sent $36 Million In Cannabis Taxes To Illinois Last Year

Wisconsin sent $36M in cannabis taxes to Illinois in 2024 | Federal prosecutors charge 51 in Oklahoma marijuana diversion case | Hemp beverage operators face a self-policing reckoning before federal rules close the door

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 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 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 17, 2026

🧯 A Lame-Duck Freeze, A Reshaped Retail Launch, And A Hemp Bill That Tests Federalism

Massachusetts freezes cultivation before dissolution | Virginia reshapes retail | Rand Paul readies a states'-rights hemp bill

Apr 15, 2026

🌿 Spanberger's Cannabis Amendments Pull Virginia's Framework Backward

Virginia's governor signs hospital access and parental rights into law, then sends lawmakers amendments that reinstate criminal penalties and gut resentencing | Idaho voters clear the signature threshold while the legislature races them to the same November ballot | Pure Oasis goes dark in Grove Hall and leaves vendors and employees holding the bag

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 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 2, 2026

🏛️ Missouri Routes Hemp Through Dispensaries, Medicare CBD Pilot Goes Live, and Massachusetts Social Equity Operators Fight Back

Missouri locks in hemp restrictions beyond the federal floor | SAM loses TRO, CBD pilot launches | Social equity operators sue to block Mass. cannabis repeal

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 23, 2026

🏛️ Hemp Money Hits D.C. As States Tighten Cannabis Markets

Lobbying ramps up in Washington while states redraw access, pricing, and retail control in real time.

Mar 3, 2026

⚖️ Supreme Court Gun Case, Hemp Ban Deadline & Tariff Pressure

SCOTUS questions marijuana gun ban, Congress faces hemp THC deadline, Tilray deploys $44M in alcohol, and operators absorb new supply chain costs.