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Forty-one advocacy groups went to Capitol Hill to argue that rescheduling does not finish the job, while Congress sits in the incoherent middle it built. A new transportation bill asks federal agencies to manufacture an impairment standard the science has not produced. Social consumption met the insurance file, Connecticut's mold records showed what oversight actually looks like at commercial scale, and Colorado proved again that selling cannabis and letting people consume it are two different political problems. The states doing real work are the ones building licensing architecture and supply-chain plumbing, and the ones treating statutes as finished products keep relearning why they are not.
🚗 An impairment standard with no science
🦠 Connecticut's mold files
🧩 Minnesota builds the plumbing
In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost.
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