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November 13, 2025
Built by a former cannabis regulator, Policy, Decoded helps operators see the policy terrain before it shifts beneath their feet.
Congress ended a forty day shutdown by turning hemp into the bargaining chip, and the bill that turned the lights back on in Washington also lit a fuse under a thirty billion dollar market. The next year will not feel like a grace period so much as a live negotiation, with retailers, governors, and regulators deciding in real time whether hemp drinks and CBD stay on shelves, move into cannabis channels, or vanish one awkward checkout conversation at a time. We recorded an emergency episode of The Hybrid with Pam Epstein to walk through how Congress got here, what the shutdown deal actually does, and where the industry needs to go next.
This edition is supported by AltIndex and The Marketing Millennials, and we are proud to offer 20% off tickets to the IgniteIt Cannabis Capital and Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. on November 17th with code POLICYDECODED20.
🥤 Hemp war?
🌾 What do the states do now?
⚖️ Time to get to work…
You can catch more flies with honey…
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