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Corporations are running 4/20 promotions while a 79-year-old activist serves six months in an Idaho prison for marijuana. Todd Blanche, Trump's personal lawyer now acting as attorney general, holds the rescheduling pen after Pam Bondi's April 2nd firing. Colorado is considering how to move hemp beverages into bars and liquor stores, while the category already sells legally across 40-plus states, many without adult-use markets. Washington's mature market keeps compressing under regional pressure from Oregon and California. Minnesota's lab system is absorbing medical, adult-use, and hemp throughputs through the same infrastructure. Congress is finally asking federal agencies to look at the work state regulators have already done rather than starting from zero. The distance between announcement and execution has never been wider, and 4/20 is a stark reminder of how far the country has not yet traveled.
🏛️ Blanche holds the rescheduling pen
🍹 Colorado considers a category already moving
🧾 The arrest gap hits eight to one
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
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