VA access, federal employment contradictions, and the policy gap veterans keep falling into.
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.
Jul 15, 2026
Three weeks end in Arlington with the agency's own scientist on the opposition's witness list. Plus Albany's wage board reaches Hochul, and Maryland's equity stores finally open.
Jun 25, 2026
A hemp fix is riding $87.6B in war funding to Speaker Johnson's desk. Plus the DEA won't defend its own harms witness, banks back away from hemp, and Michigan's medical market nearly vanishes.
Jun 24, 2026
DEA seated only reform's critics for the June 29th hearing, and a standing rule is why. Plus Durrett reads the two-tier order for Nevada, Perris tests cannabis billboard bans at the Ninth Circuit, and Virginia prices public use at $250.
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.
May 26, 2026
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.
May 15, 2026
The Cannabis Regulatory Commission is using public commission discussion to do enforcement statute alone could not. Collins pulls Patel onto Maine grow houses. The House sends Veterans back to a conference room that has stripped it every year since 2015. Healey will post the deadbeats. Good Day Farm faces a second antitrust suit. The hemp clock keeps ticking.
May 8, 2026
Federal agents searched Louise Lucas's office and her hemp store Wednesday in a corruption probe Virginia Democrats are already calling political. Plus: Texas hemp lands in court for the third time this week, an Ohio Republican joins a lawsuit against her own party's bill, and New Día heads to Suffolk Superior Court Friday with $13 million in claims hanging over a Cookies-branded equity flagship.
May 1, 2026
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
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
Mar 26, 2026
Debt is keeping cannabis alive. The Army dropped its marijuana waiver. Ohio's brewers hit 10,000 supporters.
Mar 19, 2026
Army discipline, Ohio crackdowns, and state infighting all point to the same truth: legalization is still uneven where it matters most.
Feb 26, 2026
Gun rights collide with marijuana policy as the hemp clock ticks. States tighten the screws. Capital adapts.
Feb 25, 2026
IRS posture stays firm, Virginia and Kentucky accelerate, hemp tightens, and brewers finally quantify what THC is taking.
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 5, 2026
Courts could freeze the effective date and keep 280E relief stuck on paper. Congress can raise the cost. The hemp THC cap cliff is already set for November.
Dec 1, 2025
Congress tightens hemp THC rules, Canada cuts veterans’ cannabis, Virginia advances legal cannabis sales, and regulators from California to Kentucky feel the pressure.
Nov 28, 2025
Congress tightens hemp as holiday carts fill up, and courts, clinicians, and insurers quietly reset where cannabis risk really lives.
Nov 25, 2025
Federal rulings and state regulators reshaped the week’s risk map while The Hybrid dropped a holiday edition to listen to on your upcoming cousin walk.
Nov 17, 2025
Washington drew a new THC line. Now states might decide what survives. Kentucky defends farmers, Michigan rethinks beverages, and Tennessee and Rhode Island pause before the next move.
Nov 14, 2025
Congress reopened the government by banning most hemp THC products and starting a one year clock. Today we map what survives, what does not, and how serious operators should play the new terrain.
Nov 11, 2025
The Senate traded paychecks for prohibition, delayed enforcement for a year, and called it progress.
Nov 10, 2025
McConnell used the shutdown to push hemp prohibition, turning a $28 billion market into campaign collateral.
Oct 16, 2025
Voters gave Nebraska medical cannabis by 71%. Lawmakers gave it a $30,000 budget. Plus: Michigan moves to cap licenses, and VA builds consensus on psychedelics while cannabis reform stalls.
Oct 7, 2025
Hemp leaders urge Trump to stop Congress from banning intoxicating products. The VFW enters the beverage market, and investors chase policy rumors.
