🔒 Ohio Cannabis Data Breach Sparks Class Action • Minnesota Meltdown • Medical Market Erosion

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The cannabis industry woke up today to its first federal class action over a medical data breach - a nearly one-million–record exposure in Ohio that transforms a local security lapse into an industry-wide reckoning on liability, compliance, and cost. At the same time, Minnesota’s licensing collapse is stranding businesses for years, Colorado’s psychedelic rollout is already hitting structural walls, and Pennsylvania’s treasurer is dismantling rosy revenue math without touching legalization. The pattern is clear: cannabis is colliding with institutional accountability, and the gap between political promises and operational realities is getting harder to ignore.

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