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Apr 22, 2026

🚨 Virginia's sponsors ready to walk, Delaware catches an Arizona scheme, Pritzker and Beshear campaign on 4/20

Virginia's sponsors may kill the bill rather than accept Spanberger's rewrite | Delaware catches an Arizona licensing scheme | Pritzker and Beshear spend 4/20 building their cannabis records

Apr 21, 2026

📊 Blanche Takes The Rescheduling Pen, Colorado Considers Beverages

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 20, 2026

🟢 Healey Resets The Cannabis Commission On 4/20 Eve As Hemp And Rescheduling Fights Widen

Massachusetts dissolves its five-member CCC hours before 4/20 | Colorado, Ohio, Texas, and the Senate all move on hemp the same week | Whitney puts 2025's 280E drain at $2.24 billion

Apr 19, 2026

🧠 A Grown-Up Holiday For A Half-Grown Industry

Depending on who you are, it's a punch line, a headache, or a quiet sign of how far we've come.

Apr 17, 2026

🧯 A Lame-Duck Freeze, A Reshaped Retail Launch, And A Hemp Bill That Tests Federalism

Massachusetts freezes cultivation before dissolution | Virginia reshapes retail | Rand Paul readies a states'-rights hemp bill

Apr 16, 2026

🚪 Pure Oasis Closes Owing $400K To DOR And $2.2M In Judgments, Colorado MED Targets Hemp Inversion

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

🌿 Spanberger's Cannabis Amendments Pull Virginia's Framework Backward

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 14, 2026

🧪 Colorado Tightens Its Own Marijuana Supply Chain Against Hemp Inversion

Colorado's Marijuana Enforcement Division opens emergency rulemaking against licensed operators slipping hemp-derived THC into the regulated channel | Maine's House votes down medical cannabis testing for what feels like the tenth time | New Jersey redraws its hemp line but leaves liquor-store beverages in place through the federal deadline

Apr 13, 2026

🏛️ Healey's Signature Starts A 30-Day Clock On New CCC Leadership

A Travis County judge temporarily blocks Texas from enforcing its THCA hemp ban | NJEDA opens a $15 million loan pipeline that makes the state a cannabis creditor | Oregon writes medical cannabis into hospice and residential care with HB 4142