Product recalls, contamination findings, and what they say about the testing regime that missed them.
Aug 17, 2026
Judge Robert Ballou lets the two-milligram line land at midnight. Plus the CCC potency audit's harder questions, kratom goes Schedule I, and Stop the Repeal's chair joins The Hybrid.
Jul 24, 2026
An accredited lab pulled Virginia shelf flower and found illegal THC, microbials, and a pesticide that becomes cyanide when smoked. Plus the White House backing Barr describes, Minnesota's plan to regulate a Schedule I product, and 89 percent.
Jun 24, 2026
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 15, 2026
The SJC cleared the adult-use repeal question for November in Massachusetts. Plus a bill to let states force rescheduling, Illinois closing the hemp gap, Virginia's deal revived, and the CCC's cultivation pause.
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 19, 2026
Forty-one groups tell Congress Schedule III doesn't finish the job. Plus: Connecticut's mold files show what oversight actually costs, Minnesota merges its supply chains, and Colorado still can't open a door past retail.
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.
Apr 28, 2026
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 22, 2026
Virginia's sponsors may kill the bill rather than accept Spanberger's rewrite | Delaware catches an Arizona licensing scheme | Pritzker and Beshear spend 4/20 building their cannabis records
Apr 14, 2026
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 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
Apr 7, 2026
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 3, 2026
FDA stands down for Medicare CBD pilot | Missouri hemp bill survives 7-hour filibuster | Florida's ballot fight ends, fallout begins
Apr 2, 2026
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 20, 2026
Ohio locks in its ban, CMS tests CBD limits, and states redraw who gets to sell what
Mar 19, 2026
Army discipline, Ohio crackdowns, and state infighting all point to the same truth: legalization is still uneven where it matters most.
Mar 6, 2026
Congress advances the Farm Bill without a hemp runway, SAFE Banking loses a key Republican vote, and states keep reshaping cannabis policy from Oklahoma to Michigan.
Mar 3, 2026
SCOTUS questions marijuana gun ban, Congress faces hemp THC deadline, Tilray deploys $44M in alcohol, and operators absorb new supply chain costs.
Feb 24, 2026
Rhode Island in court, Florida resets, Ohio counts signatures, and hospitals prepare for rescheduling.
Feb 12, 2026
A coordinated health backlash, a Colorado testing reset, banking gaps that still punish growth, and states feeling border pressure fast.
Feb 4, 2026
Oklahoma’s repeal rhetoric collides with years of cleanup work, rescheduling starts showing up in insurance math, and Pennsylvania tries to legalize through the budget lane with a steep entry fee.
Feb 2, 2026
Michigan puts the lab lane on notice. Colorado’s vape questions tighten the supply chain story. Ohio’s hemp beverage ban hits in March, with Congress still debating the national THC math.
Jan 29, 2026
Massachusetts rewrites market mechanics in conference. DEA chatter needs institutional proof. Oklahoma links illicit grows to cleanup costs and budget muscle.
Jan 14, 2026
Federal delays for THC caps meet state-level shutdowns. We break down the 0.4mg compliance cliff, 19 states joining the firearm ban, and the 1906 botanical liability pivot. Supported by beehiiv and Wispr Flow.
Jan 12, 2026
GOP AGs tee up litigation, banks stay on the sidelines, Texas tests regulation-by-fee, Minnesota counts down to November, and California’s top regulator exits.
