Oregon’s labor peace rule is dead. Ohio opens adult-use sales. Alabama and Oklahoma face legal battles. The paperwork is the risk, and the map is still moving.
Product liability just became real for cannabis retailers. Nebraska’s medical rollout gets more restrictive by the hour. California bets $30M on research. The tax fight over legalization revenue heats up.
No Decoded Insight today - because there’s no grand pivot, just a flood of regulatory drafts, market signals, and legislative posturing. But the map is still moving.
Senator Tillis says it’s time to regulate cannabis like alcohol. Meanwhile, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Ohio prove the backlash is still in full swing. Today’s brief breaks down the policy whiplash, and what operators need to do next.
Mississippi is out of patience. So are other states. Today’s Decoded digs into the backlash—and what smart operators should be doing now to avoid becoming collateral.
Texas expands medical cannabis, Utah voters flip on legalization, and the data is all on reform’s side.
Hemp crackdowns are escalating—but it’s the lawsuits that could reshape the industry first.
Texas inches toward banning hemp intoxicants. Global markets eye cannabis as a commodity. Plus: rescheduling momentum, Missouri’s ballot move, and branded summer plays worth tracking.
Europe flags hemp-derived THC as a public health threat, while Oklahoma's high court reinstates the state’s smokable hemp ban. Global and U.S. regulators are turning up the heat on hemp.
