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🏛️ The White House Takes Control Of Rescheduling As Virginia Forces Spanberger's Hand

Apr 23, 2026

🏛️ The White House Takes Control Of Rescheduling As Virginia Forces Spanberger's Hand

West Wing orders agencies to prepare imminent action and a new DEA hearing | Virginia sends Spanberger a clean choice on adult-use sales | South Carolina's hemp compromise collapses into conference

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🚨 Virginia's sponsors ready to walk, Delaware catches an Arizona scheme, Pritzker and Beshear campaign on 4/20

Apr 22, 2026

🚨 Virginia's sponsors ready to walk, Delaware catches an Arizona scheme, Pritzker and Beshear campaign on 4/20

Virginia's sponsors may kill the bill rather than accept Spanberger's rewrite | Delaware catches an Arizona licensing scheme | Pritzker and Beshear spend 4/20 building their cannabis records

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📊 Blanche Takes The Rescheduling Pen, Colorado Considers Beverages

Apr 21, 2026

📊 Blanche Takes The Rescheduling Pen, Colorado Considers Beverages

Todd Blanche replaces Bondi with direct incentives to deliver on rescheduling. Colorado considers hemp beverages in bars while MPP's new data shows the arrest gap at 8-to-1.

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🟢 Healey Resets The Cannabis Commission On 4/20 Eve As Hemp And Rescheduling Fights Widen

Apr 20, 2026

🟢 Healey Resets The Cannabis Commission On 4/20 Eve As Hemp And Rescheduling Fights Widen

Massachusetts dissolves its five-member CCC hours before 4/20 | Colorado, Ohio, Texas, and the Senate all move on hemp the same week | Whitney puts 2025's 280E drain at $2.24 billion

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🧠 A Grown-Up Holiday For A Half-Grown Industry

Apr 19, 2026

🧠 A Grown-Up Holiday For A Half-Grown Industry

Depending on who you are, it's a punch line, a headache, or a quiet sign of how far we've come.

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🧯 A Lame-Duck Freeze, A Reshaped Retail Launch, And A Hemp Bill That Tests Federalism

Apr 17, 2026

🧯 A Lame-Duck Freeze, A Reshaped Retail Launch, And A Hemp Bill That Tests Federalism

Massachusetts freezes cultivation before dissolution | Virginia reshapes retail | Rand Paul readies a states'-rights hemp bill

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