Oklahoma

A very large licensee base, a hard turn toward enforcement, and the regulatory challenges of both.

Oct 30, 2026

🎃 “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.”

Rep. Steve Cohen filed a bill to take cannabis out of the CSA on his way out of Congress. Plus: Georgia’s mail fight, New York’s wage board, Ohio’s hemp ban at the register.

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.

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 7, 2026

🗂️ "Tell me what company thou keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art."

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.

Sep 11, 2026

🍁 Vermont's lieutenant governor pays $2,500 and calls it steep

John Rodgers settled with the Cannabis Control Board over roughly 100 seedlings in an unapproved greenhouse. Plus eleven new taxing states and almost no new money, Michigan's wholesale tax finds a candidate, and a fake email from a regulator.

Sep 3, 2026

🥊 Two lobbies, one molecule, and 99 days to December 11th

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.

Sep 1, 2026

🏛️ Andy Harris can't amend the hemp delay, so he's voting against the rule

The hemp delay is on suspension tonight, so Andy Harris is voting no on the rule that carries the rest of the week. Plus DEA's 26 questions for Colorado dispensaries, the Sand Springs affidavit, and Perullo on cross.

Aug 31, 2026

⚖️ Texas never defined "trace." A judge noticed.

Travis County sent the hemp plaintiffs back to narrow their own order while DSHS keeps detaining product under a word its rules never define. Plus the House votes the hemp delay under suspension, and Sand Springs had a stop order.

Aug 6, 2026

🏛️ Trump called Budd. It didn't take.

Nine cosponsors on the amendment, Cotton calling it gas-station candy, and a White House liaison promising no more delays. Plus Oklahoma's ghost-licensing case reaches the attorney who drew up the paperwork, Michigan pulls a fourth license in three weeks, and Beacon Hill mostly hasn't answered.

Aug 3, 2026

🏛️ Hemp gets to December, maybe

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 22, 2026

🥊 Question 8 is real

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 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 20, 2026

🏦 $11.5 million, one treasurer.

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 15, 2026

🏁 Rescheduling rests its case. The DEA argued against itself.

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 3, 2026

🎆 Two hemp bills, one deadline, a country turning 250

The Senate splits over who regulates hemp, the DOJ names the money behind Schedule I, and a nation founded on the federal-versus-state fight spends its 250th still having it.

Jun 12, 2026

🧃 North Carolina falls back to age gates

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 5, 2026

🏛️ The White House reopens the hemp definition

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 3, 2026

🚪 Hemp's easy exits close

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 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 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 15, 2026

🧪 NJ comes for the labs

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 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 11, 2026

📝 Oklahoma's DEA registration order

Oklahoma becomes the first state to translate rescheduling into a hard compliance directive, with a January 2027 enforcement clock | The drug czar pulls the federal framing back to "still illegal" | SAM v. Kennedy heads to the bench on the CMS cannabinoid pilot | Susan Burns surfaces the $14.3B luxury spa segment hidden inside the hemp debate

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 30, 2026

🏛️ DEA's Dispensary Portal Forces Operators To Pick A Lane

Oklahoma sets a 60-day clock and Trulieve files first | South Carolina could stumble into a medical program | Indiana's $2 billion border problem travels