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Rescheduling

Schedule III, the DEA hearing process, and what moving cannabis under federal law would actually change.

👮 200,960 cannabis arrests in 2025, and the number went up

Aug 26, 2026

👮 200,960 cannabis arrests in 2025, and the number went up

The FBI counted more possession arrests last year than the year before, in a country half-legal. Plus the closed rescheduling record, the Tompkins trial, and Massachusetts reopens testing.

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🧾 294 corrections, in red ink

Aug 24, 2026

🧾 294 corrections, in red ink

Julius orders 294 corrections to the rescheduling transcript before he recommends. Plus O'Brien sues the treasurer, New Mexico flips its tracking switch, and Minnesota's hemp count falls to 46.

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📊 Massachusetts voters reject repeal 55 to 33, and Kevin Sabet rejects the poll

Aug 21, 2026

📊 Massachusetts voters reject repeal 55 to 33, and Kevin Sabet rejects the poll

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.

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📜 DEA rests its case with the other side's witnesses

Aug 20, 2026

📜 DEA rests its case with the other side's witnesses

DEA's closing brief turns the opposition's own experts into government exhibits. Plus Aurora's mid-siege shopping trip, Germany's two-week reversal, and New Hampshire's override.

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🏛️ DEA asks its own judge to hurry Schedule III

Aug 19, 2026

🏛️ DEA asks its own judge to hurry Schedule III

Justice restores gun rights to cannabis consumers, Connecticut closes a store for good and follows the money, and 79 percent of Massachusetts Democrats say keep the law.

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📮 Georgia asks the mail to carry medical cannabis

Aug 18, 2026

📮 Georgia asks the mail to carry medical cannabis

The state's medical commission votes September 30th on USPS and FedEx delivery to patients. Plus Yale's $111 billion estimate, DEA's seventeen-hour turnaround, and Virginia's special session push.

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📏 Virginia's hemp cap is law, and the judge explains why he let it land

Aug 17, 2026

📏 Virginia's hemp cap is law, and the judge explains why he let it land

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.

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🏢 Rent is deductible. Landlords noticed.

Aug 13, 2026

🏢 Rent is deductible. Landlords noticed.

Medical operators can deduct rent again, and their landlords aren't volunteering anything. Plus Fall River's $4.6 million fee bill, Ballou rules by Friday, and Budd names his price.

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📊 Daily cannabis use just passed cigarettes and alcohol

Jul 30, 2026

📊 Daily cannabis use just passed cigarettes and alcohol

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.

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👃 The smell memo Charlotte had

Jul 29, 2026

👃 The smell memo Charlotte had

A federal suit says Charlotte police were warned in 2021 that odor alone wasn't probable cause. Plus SNDL forecloses into the world's largest store count, and hemp's wholesale map fractures.

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🔎 Indiana's cannabis money, under oath

Jul 27, 2026

🔎 Indiana's cannabis money, under oath

Marion County heard testimony on unlawful cannabis lobbying at the Statehouse. Plus Massachusetts clears $1B as a repeal vote looms, and Iowa makes its case at a recovery center.

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🌾 Barr and Craig move on November 12th

Jul 23, 2026

🌾 Barr and Craig move on November 12th

Their bill repeals the November ban outright instead of delaying it, and the White House is behind it. Plus North Carolina writes the ban into its own code, and Tennessee farmers stop waiting.

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🥊 Question 8 is real

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.

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🔁 Vireo buys the wind-down

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.

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📜 Booker's answer to Schedule III

Jul 17, 2026

📜 Booker's answer to Schedule III

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.

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🧾 Hemp's rescue, priced by the milligram

Jul 16, 2026

🧾 Hemp's rescue, priced by the milligram

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.

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

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.

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🛡️ The hemp ban gets a China sales pitch

Jul 13, 2026

🛡️ The hemp ban gets a China sales pitch

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.

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

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.

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🧪 The government defends its record, twice

Jul 2, 2026

🧪 The government defends its record, twice

The DEA hands opponents the floor as DOJ's stay answer comes due, then breaks for the holiday. Plus Pillen signs Nebraska's rules, Delaware overrides its own governor on zoning, and the alcohol lobby moves on hemp drinks.

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🔬 The government's own science, on the stand

Jul 1, 2026

🔬 The government's own science, on the stand

Day two turned on the two-part test the government swapped mid-analysis. Plus Pennsylvania's one-man gate, Nebraska approving rules it's still fighting in court, and a Minnesota city that did the math.

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📝 Rescheduling: DEA defends what it fought

Jun 30, 2026

📝 Rescheduling: DEA defends what it fought

Day one put cannabis's safety on the record the D.C. Circuit will weigh. Plus two House Republicans bet against their own rescheduling block, Virginia's market becomes law, and Massachusetts braces for a repeat repeal cycle.

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⚖️ Rescheduling hearings begin

Jun 29, 2026

⚖️ Rescheduling hearings begin

Inside the hearing, plus a White House hemp fix and Ohio's ban hitting a Commerce Clause wall.

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🏦 SAFE Banking, back before the hearing

Jun 26, 2026

🏦 SAFE Banking, back before the hearing

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.

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⚖️ Hemp rides the war bill

Jun 25, 2026

⚖️ Hemp rides the war bill

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.

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