A dense market, contested local control, and a regulator under more or less constant political pressure.
Nov 4, 2026
AP called Question 8 for No, so licensed adult-use sales continue in Massachusetts. Plus, Aurora's board backs Organigram's $401 million offer.
Nov 2, 2026
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.
Oct 23, 2026
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.
Oct 16, 2026
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 12, 2026
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.
Oct 7, 2026
DEA denied a Colorado manufacturer over its sister company's adult-use sales, calling it diversion. Plus SAM's Medicare appeal, Germany's Exilby rule, Oklahoma grow cleanups and a labor peace suit.
Oct 6, 2026
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.
Oct 5, 2026
Treasury calls 280E guidance a priority, and the entry has no scope and no date. Plus Scutari's moving hemp deadline, Idaho's initiative vote, Connecticut's patient-first shipments and New York's $4.1 billion.
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 10, 2026
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.
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 17, 2026
Descheduling filed one day after the record closed. Plus: New Jersey revokes one license and extends Curaleaf's, Missouri hemp sues in federal court, and hemp drinks finally have a dataset.
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 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 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.
Jun 2, 2026
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
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, 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 26, 2026
Massachusetts puts a 75 to 125 percent band on THC labels. A federal judge tosses the Medicare hemp suit. Spanberger gets a poll she did not want. Scutari moves a 200-milligram hemp bottle.
May 21, 2026
A Worcester Superior Court judge says Massachusetts municipalities had to document Community Impact Fees costs under the prior statute too. Curaleaf can sue to find out if they did.
May 20, 2026
DeLobato, Wilson, and Harding take the rebuilt Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, and the executive director now reports to the chair. DOJ moves to claw back TerrAscend's $8 million refund. California writes a Schedule III workaround. Vermont keeps the 30% cap. Spanberger vetoes Virginia retail.
May 18, 2026
A Fort Lee doctor wrote cannabis authorizations for 95% of his patients, kids included, and prohibitionists now have their rescheduling exhibit. Plus Barr names who really doesn't want a hemp lane, House of Saka's Chapter 7, and Colorado can't measure its own inversion problem.
May 15, 2026
The Cannabis Regulatory Commission is using public commission discussion to do enforcement statute alone could not. Collins pulls Patel onto Maine grow houses. The House sends Veterans back to a conference room that has stripped it every year since 2015. Healey will post the deadbeats. Good Day Farm faces a second antitrust suit. The hemp clock keeps ticking.
May 12, 2026
ATF rewrites the gun form while DOJ defends the underlying ban at SCOTUS. Texas admits the medical cannabis scoring methodology was contested internally. Connecticut positions for federal psychedelic matching funds. Massachusetts repeal moves from Beacon Hill to clipboards. Plus DEA's supply-chain forms, EPA on the pesticide clock, and a hat tip to Paul Urbish.
