Schedule III, the DEA hearing process, and what moving cannabis under federal law would actually change.
Oct 23, 2026
Virginia’s Senate president pro tem is indicted over a Portsmouth cannabis shop. Plus DEA briefs past Election Day, a UMass report card, New Jersey’s 37-0 and Rhode Island’s hemp quarantine.
Oct 22, 2026
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 15, 2026
Nebraska’s first crop is coming in before the rest of the program. Plus Wu against Question 8, DEA’s Wednesday deadline and ATACH cheering the hemp cliff.
Oct 14, 2026
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 12, 2026
DOJ and rescheduling’s challengers want briefing to run into February 2027. Plus NCL and MPP split on hemp, Illinois’ Metrc numbers, a Jersey City TRO and the CCC’s cultivation pause.
Sep 30, 2026
Chief ALJ Derek Julius paused cannabis rescheduling to decide whether GAO belongs in the record. Plus Oregon's hemp seed supplier, a badge that travels in Massachusetts, and Missouri's consent rule.
Sep 28, 2026
A Sixth Circuit order lets Ohio require licenses and bars it from rejecting sellers by geography. Plus Question 8 polling, CANNRA's case to DEA, and two states checking private labs.
Sep 24, 2026
GAO says DEA followed HHS on every final scheduling rule it checked, with almost nothing written down about how. Plus: Missouri's missing scorer notes, Curaleaf's full-page ask to Hochul, and Delaware's new THC drink aisle.
Sep 21, 2026
California's top regulator says DEA has sent no formal Schedule III guidance, and Congress's deadline is September 30th. Plus Alabama lets the change through, North Carolina sketches state-run stores, and the Globe's own teen-use data undercuts its headline.
Sep 10, 2026
The D.C. Circuit denied the stay and kept two operators out of the caption. Plus a third of Pennsylvania's inspection files gone, ten billion in Massachusetts, and Virginia's first rulebook.
Aug 26, 2026
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.
Aug 24, 2026
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.
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.
Aug 20, 2026
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.
Aug 19, 2026
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.
Aug 18, 2026
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.
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.
Aug 13, 2026
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.
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 29, 2026
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.
Jul 27, 2026
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.
Jul 23, 2026
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.
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 21, 2026
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 17, 2026
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.
