The weekly long read. One argument, given the room it needs, published Sunday mornings.
Aug 16, 2026
Four plate readers on the drive to a dispensary. Only one of them exists because a government demanded it, and it is the one pointed at people buying something legal.
Aug 9, 2026
Not the association's binder. The grower with the fifteen-day problem. Inside the week an entire market learned civics, and the free guide that makes the lesson stick.
Jul 19, 2026
Two and a half weeks in a sealed room built one thing: a record. What the government proved, where the opposition undercut itself, and the 412,500 people the file never met. Plus, the 1988 precedent.
Jun 28, 2026
Tomorrow the government must argue the opposite of fifty years of prohibition. A former regulator on why rescheduling is right, and still easy to lose.
May 31, 2026
Rescheduling handed the industry a diploma in April. A former regulator on the lenders, customers, and missing memory waiting on the other side of the stage.
May 17, 2026
The most sophisticated repeal campaign prohibition has run, the money behind it, and what its own evidence actually argues for.
May 10, 2026
A former commissioner complained we regulate cannabis like uranium. What if we did? The institution the industry has not built.
May 3, 2026
Cannabis has the public majority. Neither party has finished its internal argument long enough to claim it.
Apr 26, 2026
The April 22 federal cannabis order ended Section 280E and routed adult-use to a June 29 hearing | Israel, Canada, Germany, Uruguay, and the UK have been working this for decades | What the order moved, what it did not, and what kind of participant the U.S. is about to be
Apr 19, 2026
Depending on who you are, it's a punch line, a headache, or a quiet sign of how far we've come.
Apr 12, 2026
The supply chain already exists. The agencies touching it were built for other work. A former regulator on what coordination would actually require.
Mar 29, 2026
Eleven labs. Six states. The system was designed to reward the behavior it was supposed to prevent.
Mar 22, 2026
Cannabis is starting to fail like a real industry. The problem is what happens next.
Mar 15, 2026
Beverages barely register in dispensaries. In liquor stores they are exploding. The difference is the channel.
Mar 8, 2026
Legalization built a system for flower in dispensaries. The market that followed is moving somewhere else.
Mar 1, 2026
Congress may close the hemp loophole. The real question is what happens to the state systems built to regulate intoxicating THC - testing, age gating, retail controls, and the revenue funding it all.
Feb 22, 2026
The Sunday Read-In now has a podcast. Today: repeal campaigns shift the debate from legalization to competence, and what “serious oversight” has to look like to win.
Feb 15, 2026
The Sunday Read-In now has a podcast. Same analysis, now on Spotify. Today: the NYT editorial board revisits legalization and what “market correction” really means.
