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A small, late market working in the shadow of the one next door.

🍗 “A chicken for every pot.”

Oct 27, 2026

🍗 “A chicken for every pot.”

Alberta turned down Curaleaf’s bid to halt Aurora’s share sales. Plus Spanberger on Lucas, a path for out-of-state patients, Michigan’s tax pledge and Georgia’s dispensing window.

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🍳 “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

Oct 26, 2026

🍳 “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

Forty-six days out, the hemp fight is bigger than its famous faces. Plus North Carolina’s state-run store idea, Booker and DEA, a Massachusetts testing draft and Rhode Island delivery.

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🍽️ “Enough is as good as a feast.”

Oct 23, 2026

🍽️ “Enough is as good as a feast.”

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.

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📜 "But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man."

Oct 9, 2026

📜 "But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man."

Washington will write a medical certificate its own staff doubts DEA will honor. Plus Ohio's package limits, California's Prop 64 talk, Georgia's registry and the CCC's year.

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📊 "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

Oct 8, 2026

📊 "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

Question 8's first TV ads cite a 42% crash figure that matches one Ohio county. Plus DEA's silence with state regulators, Rhode Island hemp, a California destruction order and Maryland.

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🧾 Rhode Island tells hemp licensees to empty the shelves by December 11

Sep 15, 2026

🧾 Rhode Island tells hemp licensees to empty the shelves by December 11

The Cannabis Office set the date, closed the exit into the licensed market, and offered to come watch the destruction. Plus twelve charged in Pennsylvania, cannabis money buying ads that never say cannabis, and a million square feet nobody inspected

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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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🗓️ December 11th. Now the House.

Aug 10, 2026

🗓️ December 11th. Now the House.

Sixty-one votes moved the federal hemp ban to December 11, and the House inherits the date. Square tells merchants to clear hemp by October 15 anyway, Rhode Island reopens retail licensing with the sunk costs unpaid, and a THC test can now open a child-welfare file.

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🚨 The sheriffs want the hemp bill

Jul 28, 2026

🚨 The sheriffs want the hemp bill

North Carolina's law enforcement associations are pushing the House to regulate hemp before November. Plus Texas can enforce its THCA rule, and Vireo pays for Planet 13 in stock.

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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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📝 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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⚖️ Curaleaf wins the argument and loses the motion

Jun 23, 2026

⚖️ Curaleaf wins the argument and loses the motion

Plus Virginia's market finally clears the legislature, out-of-state money drives Maine's repeal push, Missouri rebuilds its equity licenses, and the legal cannabis workforce shrinks for the first time.

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🧃 North Carolina falls back to age gates

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.

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🧨 Beshear's order, now a prosecution threat

Jun 10, 2026

🧨 Beshear's order, now a prosecution threat

Kentucky's House whip wants cannabis licensees prosecuted for following Beshear's medical-marijuana order. Plus Texas hemp back by court order, Ohio's veto fight, and psychedelics at the Pentagon.

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🪙 Curaleaf moves first

May 27, 2026

🪙 Curaleaf moves first

Curaleaf moves toward a U.S. uplisting with a 1-for-3 reverse split. Rhode Island writes its cannabis fix and picks a chair to run it. Delaware lawmakers can't agree which channel sells the same molecule. VA puts MDMA back in a randomized trial. Illinois routes hemp through the cannabis system.

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🧪 The label test in Massachusetts

May 26, 2026

🧪 The label test in Massachusetts

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.

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⚖️ The $1.6 Billion Question Reaches The Massachusetts SJC

May 5, 2026

⚖️ The $1.6 Billion Question Reaches The Massachusetts SJC

Operators argue at the SJC that the SAM-funded repeal initiative is unconstitutional | The White House Drug Strategy talks tough on cannabis without mentioning Schedule III | A 320-page lawsuit names Cresco, GTI, and Verano

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🌾 House Passes Farm Bill, Hemp Deadline Holds for November

May 1, 2026

🌾 House Passes Farm Bill, Hemp Deadline Holds for November

Farm Bill clears House without moving the November cap | DEA registration asks operators to disclose years of federal exposure | Trump pulls Casey Means and nominates Nicole Saphier

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

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

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🧯 A Lame-Duck Freeze, A Reshaped Retail Launch, And A Hemp Bill That Tests Federalism

Apr 17, 2026

🧯 A Lame-Duck Freeze, A Reshaped Retail Launch, And A Hemp Bill That Tests Federalism

Massachusetts freezes cultivation before dissolution | Virginia reshapes retail | Rand Paul readies a states'-rights hemp bill

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🚪 Pure Oasis Closes Owing $400K To DOR And $2.2M In Judgments, Colorado MED Targets Hemp Inversion

Apr 16, 2026

🚪 Pure Oasis Closes Owing $400K To DOR And $2.2M In Judgments, Colorado MED Targets Hemp Inversion

Pure Oasis closes under $400K in back taxes and a $2.2M judgment | Colorado MED targets hemp inversion and $1 transfer pricing | Rhode Island appeals federal injunction halting its license lottery

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🧪 Colorado Tightens Its Own Marijuana Supply Chain Against Hemp Inversion

Apr 14, 2026

🧪 Colorado Tightens Its Own Marijuana Supply Chain Against Hemp Inversion

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

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🏛️ Beacon Hill Sends Cannabis Commission Overhaul to Healey in Three Days Flat

Apr 10, 2026

🏛️ Beacon Hill Sends Cannabis Commission Overhaul to Healey in Three Days Flat

Federal judge halts Rhode Island's cannabis lottery on Dormant Commerce Clause grounds | Roger Stone asks who inside the White House is stalling rescheduling | Whitney puts 280E damage at $2.24 billion

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⚖️ Rhode Island Freezes Cannabis Licensure as Courts Settle What Washington Won't

Apr 9, 2026

⚖️ Rhode Island Freezes Cannabis Licensure as Courts Settle What Washington Won't

Rhode Island freezes licensure on a constitutional claim | Massachusetts finally chooses governability | Cannabist and Silverpeak land in court on the same day

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🏛️ Hemp Money Hits D.C. As States Tighten Cannabis Markets

Mar 23, 2026

🏛️ Hemp Money Hits D.C. As States Tighten Cannabis Markets

Lobbying ramps up in Washington while states redraw access, pricing, and retail control in real time.

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