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Before we get into today, a correction. Yesterday's edition included a brief summarizing a GreenState essay by NCIA board member Kasey Kollross on cannabis and hemp trade alignment, and our summary conflated two things Kollross kept distinct. The Commission is a specific working group that reached consensus on ten shared policy principles, documented in a Marijuana Moment op-ed by NCIA Board Chair Adam Rosenberg and cannabis attorney Eric Berlin. Separately, Kollross credited NCIA, the Hemp Beverage Alliance, the U.S. Hemp Roundtable, the Hemp Industry & Farmers of America, and the Coalition for Adult Beverage Alternatives as organizations each approaching alignment work from different angles. Our brief implied those five organizations were participants in the Commission. They are not, and Kollross did not write that they were. The corrected brief is live on the web version of yesterday’s edition. Thanks to Kollross for the flag.
And with that, to today. Colorado spent the day tightening its marijuana supply chain from the inside, going after licensed operators who have been slipping cheap hemp-derived THC into the regulated channel. Maine's House voted down medical cannabis testing for what feels like the tenth time, with "where are the bodies" now standing in as a governing philosophy. New Jersey redrew its hemp line but left liquor-store beverages in place through the federal deadline, which is the clearest signal Trenton could send to DC about which lanes should stay open after November. A Missouri hemp operator is making a principled one-plant argument in Marijuana Moment against a federal clock that is about to flatten most of the distinctions he wants to preserve. The hemp-marijuana boundary is moving in every direction at once, and the operators reading this closely are the ones who will still be standing when it settles.
🧪 Tightening from the inside
🧫 Where are the bodies
🌿 A door left open for DC
🎙️ A new Hybrid, with a pickle
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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