Oversupply, price collapse, interstate export ambitions, and a psilocybin program running alongside.
Aug 27, 2026
Sacramento has until Monday, and DCC already got what it wanted. Plus Georgia arrests a licensed hemp dealer before the lab report, North Carolina counts its 175 drug recognition experts, and Oregon marks down nine years of cannabis revenue.
Aug 21, 2026
The first general-electorate number on Question 8 lands the day the repeal's funder makes his case on GBH. Plus Booker and Trump's two federal tracks, Texas hemp's third lawsuit, and Tennessee's $54 million hemp tax hole.
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 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 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 29, 2026
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.
Apr 30, 2026
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
Apr 27, 2026
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 13, 2026
A Travis County judge temporarily blocks Texas from enforcing its THCA hemp ban | NJEDA opens a $15 million loan pipeline that makes the state a cannabis creditor | Oregon writes medical cannabis into hospice and residential care with HB 4142
Mar 9, 2026
Pennsylvania faces a hemp deadline, Ohio’s drink ban heads to court, and New York’s sales surge now depends on supply.
Mar 2, 2026
Gun rights at the Supreme Court, insurers eye THC coverage, THCA crackdowns expand, and The Hybrid drops a new episode.
Feb 11, 2026
Massachusetts drama, federal checkpoints, Florida court fights, and the growing hemp beverage lane. Stability is scarce. Process still matters.
Jan 27, 2026
New York needs boring, steady governance. Congress tightens the hemp clock. United Center tests low-dose THC beverages at scale.
Jan 26, 2026
Retail adoption keeps climbing as a federal THC cap threatens the set. Plus Florida petition fraud turns into enforcement, and states keep building the rules.
Jan 5, 2026
Courts could freeze the effective date and keep 280E relief stuck on paper. Congress can raise the cost. The hemp THC cap cliff is already set for November.
Dec 10, 2025
Ohio criminalizes border shopping, Congress clamps down on hemp, Medicare eyes CBD, and courts and councils quietly redraw the cannabis map.
Nov 25, 2025
Federal rulings and state regulators reshaped the week’s risk map while The Hybrid dropped a holiday edition to listen to on your upcoming cousin walk.
Nov 21, 2025
A federal shortcut on hemp now shapes state politics, agency decisions, and industry strategy, turning a quiet provision into a national flashpoint for cannabis and hemp markets.
Oct 24, 2025
Michigan’s enforcement void attracts organized crime while lawmakers pile on new taxes. Teen vaping data arms prohibitionists, and THC beverages keep reshaping retail.
Oct 22, 2025
Curaleaf sues New Jersey over labor peace agreements, Ohio lawmakers rewrite a voter-approved cannabis law, and alcohol giants join the hemp beverage lobbying war. Today’s Policy, Decoded unpacks where labor, law, and lobbying collide.
Oct 14, 2025
Ohio’s hemp ban took effect as lawsuits hit federal court, psychedelic research unlocked new medical potential, and even DeSantis couldn’t deny legalization’s momentum.
Oct 13, 2025
Target’s hemp pilot isn’t about consumer demand. It’s a stress test for who survives when big-box balance sheets enter the game.
Oct 2, 2025
Cannabis faces $6B in looming debt, Congress stalls reform in shutdown chaos, and Newsom teases national leadership while California’s market strains.
Sep 16, 2025
Republicans kneecap their own president on rescheduling, California doubles down on hemp bans, Maryland courts clear the way for crackdowns, and unions quietly become cannabis’s next power brokers.
Aug 8, 2025
Cannabis enforcement evolves from partnership to professional oversight as markets mature.
