Federal policy from the agencies and the Hill, plus the District's own market and the riders holding it back.
Aug 19, 2026
Justice restores gun rights to cannabis consumers, Connecticut closes a store for good and follows the money, and 79 percent of Massachusetts Democrats say keep the law.
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 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 30, 2026
The 2025 federal survey counts 21.4 million daily cannabis consumers. Plus Comer's conditional delay, Total Wine's shelf fight, and the Eighth Circuit tests Hemani.
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.
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 14, 2026
Judge Helmick's injunction reaches past the ten plaintiffs to anyone selling their products. Plus Morgan Tweet's federal framework, Pennsylvania's budget shuts the door again, and Curaleaf takes Spain's first two numbers.
Jun 29, 2026
Inside the hearing, plus a White House hemp fix and Ohio's ban hitting a Commerce Clause wall.
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 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.
Jun 17, 2026
An industry-side analysis says the D.C. Circuit could stay and reverse rescheduling if standing clears. Plus the FDA's missing hemp lines, Virginia's market caught in a data-center budget fight, and what rescheduling still hasn't done for banking.
Jun 16, 2026
Van Duyne drafts a federal carve-out for hemp drinks as the November cliff nears. Plus a Harvard witness enters the rescheduling fight, Hanna takes CANNRA, and High Tide trades up to a Big 5 bank.
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 11, 2026
Laughlin's Cannabis Control Board died 27-23 when co-sponsors crossed, then revived on a reconsider. Plus a rescheduling freeze bid, three New York wins, and a study on personalized cannabis dosing.
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 9, 2026
Idaho's legislature put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot asking voters to give up their own power to legalize cannabis, while Massachusetts fights a push to repeal the market its voters passed. Plus Cresco's $50M bank line and who it leaves out, federal marijuana cases at a record low, and Vireo buying up the supply chain.
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 5, 2026
The White House asked Congress to update the hemp definition and left the key line undefined, reopening the fight before November. Plus New York's anti-inversion law, Michigan's tax shortfall, and the 280E fight.
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 3, 2026
The Rules Committee blocks the hemp delay amendments, but the coalition isn't done. Plus Landry jails public smoking, an HHC suit hits DEA, and AYR hands three more states to its lenders.
Jun 2, 2026
Murrill withdraws days after Trump ends a Louisiana Senate career, a third challenge hits the D.C. Circuit, Illinois operators move SB 3222, Sherrill signs the hemp-drink law, and Japan bans CBN.
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 29, 2026
Surovell and Lucas float folding cannabis sales into the July 1 budget to box the governor in. Plus: Congress leans on the IRS over 280E, ATACH lawyers up for the DEA hearing, and Tennessee's THCA ban hits July 1.
May 28, 2026
Indiana, Nebraska, and Louisiana AGs went to the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday, and by Wednesday the court had consolidated their case with SAM and NDASA's. Cruz, newly the senior Texas senator after Cornyn's blowout loss, says hemp reversal is uphill. New Jersey courts split on cannabis hiring. Minnesota's omnibus hits Walz's desk. Maryland arms ATCC with seizure power.
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.
