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Federal rescheduling is generating artifacts states can act on. Oklahoma is running a 60-day DEA registration clock. Trulieve has already filed. South Carolina is dusting off a 1980 statute it never expected to use. Indiana is pricing out the cost of pretending its borders are sealed. House appropriators are filing riders to block the rule even as DEA stands up an explainer page about how the rule will work. The hemp cliff still holds. Colorado cannot find the votes for THC beverages. The state-by-state response is uneven in revealing ways, and the operators paying closest attention right now are the ones thinking about which doors to walk through and which to leave closed.
🏛️ DEA's portal opens
⚕️ South Carolina's accidental program
🌽 Indiana's $2B leakage
It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.
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You know that feeling when you leave a meeting and immediately forget half of what you promised?
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