A small market, a regulator conscious of saturation, and a strong craft ethos throughout.
Sep 11, 2026
John Rodgers settled with the Cannabis Control Board over roughly 100 seedlings in an unapproved greenhouse. Plus eleven new taxing states and almost no new money, Michigan's wholesale tax finds a candidate, and a fake email from a regulator.
Sep 9, 2026
Washington finally counted who will take cannabis money, and the barrier turned out to be the paperwork. Plus $600 from Massachusetts, and a commissioner who wants to stop regulating by the square foot.
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 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 10, 2026
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.
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 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.
Jun 22, 2026
Inside the Hemani decision and the two ATF rules it now reshapes. Plus Vermont's interstate runway, Missouri moving $71.9M while $95M sits idle, and Colorado teen use at a fresh low.
May 21, 2026
A Worcester Superior Court judge says Massachusetts municipalities had to document Community Impact Fees costs under the prior statute too. Curaleaf can sue to find out if they did.
May 20, 2026
DeLobato, Wilson, and Harding take the rebuilt Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, and the executive director now reports to the chair. DOJ moves to claw back TerrAscend's $8 million refund. California writes a Schedule III workaround. Vermont keeps the 30% cap. Spanberger vetoes Virginia retail.
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.
Apr 24, 2026
Washington reopened every major cannabis and hemp question today and answered none of them | DOJ moves state-licensed medical marijuana to Schedule III while routing adult-use to a June 29th hearing | The 3 mg CMS Medicare standard is the clearest signal yet about where a revised federal hemp floor might land
Apr 21, 2026
Todd Blanche replaces Bondi with direct incentives to deliver on rescheduling. Colorado considers hemp beverages in bars while MPP's new data shows the arrest gap at 8-to-1.
Apr 16, 2026
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
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
Apr 9, 2026
Rhode Island freezes licensure on a constitutional claim | Massachusetts finally chooses governability | Cannabist and Silverpeak land in court on the same day
Mar 10, 2026
Texas rewrites hemp rules, Ohio brewers challenge a veto, and regulators across the country keep deciding what intoxicating hemp is allowed to become.
Feb 27, 2026
Congress weighs a hemp delay, California slips again, and New York bets on stability. Plus labor risk, Europe strategy, and capital discipline.
Feb 6, 2026
Low-dose is becoming the mainstream playbook. Gun rights litigation keeps moving. States are choosing between repair plans and crackdowns.
Jan 30, 2026
Rescheduling talk keeps running ahead of paperwork. Virginia races toward a legal market. Ohio and South Carolina tighten the hemp lane.
Jan 23, 2026
Washington rethinks cannabis in care facilities. Congress punts on hemp again. New England politics test market stability.
Jan 1, 2026
Vermont’s ad settlement brings free speech and marketing restrictions back to the front. The hemp lane stays wider. Plus Schedule III messaging, MA reforms, and hemp age-gating pressure.
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.
Oct 29, 2025
Rand Paul vows to block government reopening unless hemp bans are stripped, turning a shutdown fight into a defining test for federal cannabis policy.
