A slow rollout, an enforcement backlog, and one of the most closely watched equity programs in the country.
Sep 3, 2026
Not guilty twice in Boston, in three and a half hours. Plus the two lobbies name their December terms, Aurora's answer to Curaleaf, and New York starts paying for the tags.
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 11, 2026
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
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 7, 2026
Gillibrand crosses the aisle as Vance brokers and Thune warns of a wreck. Plus Newton repays $2.4 million in impact fees, the CCC reopens its testing file, and a court tells California to read its own track-and-trace data.
Aug 4, 2026
Senate appropriators narrow the November hemp ban to synthetics until December 11, the day their own funding expires. Plus Texas goes federal, a $17M Rochester bust, and Missouri's second union contract.
Jul 31, 2026
California's treasurer wants Prop 64 replaced outright. Plus Virginia stands up an intoxicants unit, North Carolina nears its unamendable hemp vote, and Texas's line lands today.
Jul 30, 2026
The 2025 federal survey counts 21.4 million daily cannabis consumers. Plus Comer's conditional delay, Total Wine's shelf fight, and the Eighth Circuit tests Hemani.
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 22, 2026
The State Ballot Law Commission puts repeal on the November ballot. Plus Blanche commits to medical only, in writing, and the hemp cliff reaches the bar.
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.
Jul 14, 2026
Judge Helmick's injunction reaches past the ten plaintiffs to anyone selling their products. Plus Morgan Tweet's federal framework, Pennsylvania's budget shuts the door again, and Curaleaf takes Spain's first two numbers.
Jul 13, 2026
Chad Wolf reframes the November hemp restriction as national security. Plus: Massachusetts repeal makes the ballot by 122 signatures, and DOJ builds a False Claims Act case from PPP paperwork.
Jun 29, 2026
Inside the hearing, plus a White House hemp fix and Ohio's ban hitting a Commerce Clause wall.
Jun 26, 2026
Sen. Merkley refiled SAFE Banking with a bipartisan four, days before the DEA's hearing. Plus California's $227M enforcement bet, why Stop the Repeal is every legal state's fight, and Ohio's beverage ban now running brand by brand.
Jun 25, 2026
A hemp fix is riding $87.6B in war funding to Speaker Johnson's desk. Plus the DEA won't defend its own harms witness, banks back away from hemp, and Michigan's medical market nearly vanishes.
Jun 16, 2026
Van Duyne drafts a federal carve-out for hemp drinks as the November cliff nears. Plus a Harvard witness enters the rescheduling fight, Hanna takes CANNRA, and High Tide trades up to a Big 5 bank.
Jun 12, 2026
North Carolina falls back to a hemp and kratom age limit after broader regulation stalled. Plus New York restores OCM's search power, Rhode Island staffs its commission, and SAM's repeal gets caught.
Jun 11, 2026
Laughlin's Cannabis Control Board died 27-23 when co-sponsors crossed, then revived on a reconsider. Plus a rescheduling freeze bid, three New York wins, and a study on personalized cannabis dosing.
Jun 8, 2026
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 5, 2026
The White House asked Congress to update the hemp definition and left the key line undefined, reopening the fight before November. Plus New York's anti-inversion law, Michigan's tax shortfall, and the 280E fight.
Jun 4, 2026
Logan's Roadhouse pours 5-milligram THC cocktails in Texas while the FDA fast-tracks a cannabis pain drug, and Wyoming says rescheduling doesn't bind its statutes.
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.
