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Today's lead is the kind of story this publication exists to read carefully. Pure Oasis, Boston's first Black-owned recreational dispensary, closed under $400,000 in back taxes, six lawsuits, and a $2.2 million judgment, and the public framing now blames the bureaucracy for what the books were already showing. Underneath that, Colorado's MED published Industry Bulletin 26-03 going after hemp inversion and $1-per-pound transfer pricing, with the regulated industry publicly applauding. Rhode Island's CCC has appealed a federal injunction that halted its retail license lottery. And Gov. Spanberger is amending two Virginia cannabis bills in ways that signal more brake than gas.
🚪 Pure Oasis under its own books
🚨 Colorado targets inversion
⚖️ Spanberger taps the brake
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