Seed-to-sale tracking, plate readers, purchase data, and what regulators and police do with it.
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 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 12, 2026
A $272 million unsolicited bid meets a special committee. Plus the alcohol industry endorses the hemp beverage bill, and Virginia defends its cap in Roanoke.
Aug 7, 2026
Gillibrand crosses the aisle as Vance brokers and Thune warns of a wreck. Plus Newton repays $2.4 million in impact fees, the CCC reopens its testing file, and a court tells California to read its own track-and-trace data.
May 27, 2026
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.
Apr 15, 2026
Virginia's governor signs hospital access and parental rights into law, then sends lawmakers amendments that reinstate criminal penalties and gut resentencing | Idaho voters clear the signature threshold while the legislature races them to the same November ballot | Pure Oasis goes dark in Grove Hall and leaves vendors and employees holding the bag
Mar 4, 2026
Virginia’s market build begins, Texas campaigns on THC, and the industry’s money trail complicates the politics of rescheduling.
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 23, 2026
Supreme Court gun exposure, tighter oversight in Missouri and Rhode Island, Ohio testing shifts, and Michigan’s tax squeeze redraw the operating map.
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.
Dec 18, 2025
The White House confirms Trump will speak on marijuana rescheduling today. Schedule III headlines arrive first; the administrative process, safety politics, and market consequences follow.
Dec 12, 2025
Trump toys with Schedule 3, Ohio tightens its voter mandate, hemp absorbs new heat, and New York’s tracking system gets stress-tested in real time.
Dec 11, 2025
Wyden moves to replace the federal hemp THC ban with standards as CRS questions enforcement, Curaleaf and Texas adjust in real time, and Massachusetts faces testing, repeal, and social use fights.
Dec 9, 2025
New York shuffles its cannabis leadership while hemp bans hit real shops and new numbers on sales, taxes, and pain meds start to move the conversation.
Dec 8, 2025
A Washington Post edibles story hits the national bloodstream as courts, regulators, and data systems quietly reset where cannabis risk and responsibility really sit.
Dec 4, 2025
CMS opens a narrow CBD lane while Congress clamps down on hemp, states scramble to hold their ground, and the next round of ballots and banking battles comes into view.
Nov 10, 2025
McConnell used the shutdown to push hemp prohibition, turning a $28 billion market into campaign collateral.
Nov 5, 2025
Alcohol's national lobby wants a THC timeout. Minnesota's rules strain homegrown operators. Tribal sovereignty hits cannabis reality. Plus: debt moves, data breaches, and state politics heating up.
Oct 9, 2025
Ohio declares a 90-day emergency ban on hemp THC products, Germany’s medical cannabis market triples through telemedicine, and Trump’s approval among cannabis users collapses.
Sep 25, 2025
Colorado launches random shelf testing, Michigan floats real-time surveillance, Virginia eyes 2026 sales, and cannabis could become America’s first AI-native industry.
Sep 18, 2025
Trump’s drug czar pick keeps cannabis rescheduling “on the table” while the DEA process remains frozen. Ohio exposes nearly one million patient records, Alabama hearings drag on four years after legalization, and lawmakers rediscover cannabis reform only when Trump brings it up.
Aug 27, 2025
A federal class action over 1M exposed records signals cannabis’s liability shift, plus Minnesota’s licensing disaster, psilocybin delays, GOP hemp fractures, and more.
Aug 20, 2025
Ohio breach exposes nearly a million medical cannabis records while industry pioneer Richard Lee passes at 62.
