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The federal government has left states to sort out a cannabis and hemp policy mess it will not touch. States are improvising. Operators are trying to scale inside the improvisation. The collisions land in front of local judges, state legislators, county supervisors, ballot drafters, and bankruptcy trustees who never signed up to settle federalism one decision at a time. A Rhode Island federal judge just froze an entire license round on a dormant commerce clause claim. Massachusetts is finally rebuilding a commission that spent years proving how badly diffused authority ages. Nebraska is slow-walking its own voters. Cannabist and Silverpeak both landed in court on the same day asking for two different versions of the same answer. When the referees are this improvised, the quality of the regulators, the quality of the courts, and the quality of the journalism covering them all matter more, not less.
🚨 Rhode Island freezes licensure
🏛️ Beacon Hill finally moves
💸 Cannabist and Silverpeak on the same day
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