A hemp-first market, a ban that keeps coming back, and no adult-use program anywhere in sight.
Sep 2, 2026
The ban moves to December 11th, into a lame duck. Plus the Tompkins defense rests on Cabral, Newsom signs California's packaging bill, and ten states carry 60 percent of cannabis arrests.
Aug 31, 2026
Travis County sent the hemp plaintiffs back to narrow their own order while DSHS keeps detaining product under a word its rules never define. Plus the House votes the hemp delay under suspension, and Sand Springs had a stop order.
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 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 11, 2026
Van Duyne and Landsman give hemp THC drinks an alcohol-style framework. Plus Houston counts signatures, Texas keeps enforcing, and Michigan's tax closes five stores.
Aug 6, 2026
Nine cosponsors on the amendment, Cotton calling it gas-station candy, and a White House liaison promising no more delays. Plus Oklahoma's ghost-licensing case reaches the attorney who drew up the paperwork, Michigan pulls a fourth license in three weeks, and Beacon Hill mostly hasn't answered.
Aug 5, 2026
Budd moves to strip the hemp delay, 35 attorneys general back the November date, and marijuana's top trade group amplifies them. Plus North Carolina punts its hemp vote, and 280E goes to Tax Court.
Aug 4, 2026
Senate appropriators narrow the November hemp ban to synthetics until December 11, the day their own funding expires. Plus Texas goes federal, a $17M Rochester bust, and Missouri's second union contract.
Jul 31, 2026
California's treasurer wants Prop 64 replaced outright. Plus Virginia stands up an intoxicants unit, North Carolina nears its unamendable hemp vote, and Texas's line lands today.
Jul 28, 2026
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.
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 20, 2026
Trulieve, Curaleaf, Verano, and Green Thumb wire $11.5M to a Trump-linked ag PAC. Plus Oklahoma seals a shop over tags, Michigan closes a case with Massachusetts, and Europe flunks its own lab test.
Jul 13, 2026
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.
Jul 1, 2026
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.
Jun 15, 2026
The SJC cleared the adult-use repeal question for November in Massachusetts. Plus a bill to let states force rescheduling, Illinois closing the hemp gap, Virginia's deal revived, and the CCC's cultivation pause.
Jun 10, 2026
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.
Jun 8, 2026
Trulieve carved out its adult-use business to list a medical-only company on the NYSE, the first U.S. operator on a major exchange. Plus the DEA's June 22 roster, Texas hemp back in court, and what a Michigan license is really worth.
Jun 4, 2026
Logan's Roadhouse pours 5-milligram THC cocktails in Texas while the FDA fast-tracks a cannabis pain drug, and Wyoming says rescheduling doesn't bind its statutes.
Jun 1, 2026
Six weeks after Schedule III, state regulators say they can't advise their own licensees, with the DEA hearing two weeks out. Plus three Republican plays to stop November's hemp ban and Robinhood's open door.
May 22, 2026
A bankruptcy court hands Maryland a permit transfer the state was not planning to allow. Federal labor law settles against cannabis exceptionalism. Colorado cultivators sue over the excise tax math. Minnesota loses a lab.
May 19, 2026
Forty-one groups tell Congress Schedule III doesn't finish the job. Plus: Connecticut's mold files show what oversight actually costs, Minnesota merges its supply chains, and Colorado still can't open a door past retail.
May 18, 2026
A Fort Lee doctor wrote cannabis authorizations for 95% of his patients, kids included, and prohibitionists now have their rescheduling exhibit. Plus Barr names who really doesn't want a hemp lane, House of Saka's Chapter 7, and Colorado can't measure its own inversion problem.
May 13, 2026
DOJ's Schedule III order leaves hemp's November cliff fully intact, and Congress just told DEA to start enforcing. A Florida ALJ reopened the MMTC scoring. Ohio puts $20M into messaging while its regulator runs on a $9M budget. Inside today.
May 12, 2026
ATF rewrites the gun form while DOJ defends the underlying ban at SCOTUS. Texas admits the medical cannabis scoring methodology was contested internally. Connecticut positions for federal psychedelic matching funds. Massachusetts repeal moves from Beacon Hill to clipboards. Plus DEA's supply-chain forms, EPA on the pesticide clock, and a hat tip to Paul Urbish.
May 11, 2026
Oklahoma becomes the first state to translate rescheduling into a hard compliance directive, with a January 2027 enforcement clock | The drug czar pulls the federal framing back to "still illegal" | SAM v. Kennedy heads to the bench on the CMS cannabinoid pilot | Susan Burns surfaces the $14.3B luxury spa segment hidden inside the hemp debate
