Hemp Legislation

Sep 18, 2025

🎙️ Trump’s Drug Czar Testimony • Ohio Data Breach • Alabama Stalled Again

Trump’s drug czar pick keeps cannabis rescheduling “on the table” while the DEA process remains frozen. Ohio exposes nearly one million patient records, Alabama hearings drag on four years after legalization, and lawmakers rediscover cannabis reform only when Trump brings it up.

Sep 17, 2025

🌾 Oklahoma Market Correction • Wanda James Runs • The New War on Weed

Oklahoma consolidates from 14,000 to 5,000 licenses, Wanda James takes on a congressional heavyweight, and legalization paradoxically fuels new waves of enforcement.

Sep 16, 2025

🏛️ House GOP Blocks Trump on Cannabis • CA Hemp Ban • Labor’s Power Play

Republicans kneecap their own president on rescheduling, California doubles down on hemp bans, Maryland courts clear the way for crackdowns, and unions quietly become cannabis’s next power brokers.

Sep 12, 2025

🌴 Florida’s $1B Paradox • RFK’s Youth Pivot • NJ Homegrow Shift

Florida’s booming medical market collides with DeSantis’s prohibition playbook, while Washington dithers and states improvise their own fixes.

Sep 5, 2025

🌵 Texas Hemp Victory • $8B Market Risk • Global Shifts • New Podcast Episode

Patrick’s THC ban collapses but Texas hemp faces a looming reckoning. Michigan prosecutes grows with tax law, Massachusetts ballot bids threaten $8B sales, and Thailand elevates its “Cannabis King.” Plus, The Hybrid podcast drops a new episode.

Sep 4, 2025

🚨 Texas THC Ban Collapses • Labor Strikes • Pumpkin Spice Weed?!

Texas kills its own THC ban as a $10B hemp economy proves untouchable. GTI workers strike in PA, THC beverages surge past $1.1B, delta-8 use doubles in prohibition states, and Switzerland unveils its legalization framework.

Aug 27, 2025

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

A federal class action over 1M exposed records signals cannabis’s liability shift, plus Minnesota’s licensing disaster, psilocybin delays, GOP hemp fractures, and more.

Aug 22, 2025

🔬 CRS Hemp Framework, ICE Cannabis Deportations, Google Canada Pilot

CRS hands Congress hemp regulatory roadmap while ICE weaponizes prohibition's conviction database for deportation quotas.

Aug 21, 2025

⚖️ Courts Demolish Gun Ban • DC Agents Go Viral • EU Hemp Breakthrough

Federal cannabis enforcement faces constitutional meltdown as Trump weighs rescheduling while defending restrictions courts keep rejecting.

Aug 19, 2025

🏛️ Texas Hemp Ban • Federal Restrictions Advance • Reality TV Rescue

Abbott isolated as prohibition momentum builds across state and federal levels

Aug 14, 2025

🔬 Testing Crisis + Abbott's Polling Puzzle + Crime Labs Reality Check

Cannabis testing failures expose systemic fraud while Texas politics defy conventional wisdom.

Aug 8, 2025

🎯 Regulatory Maturation • NJ Fines Curaleaf $610K • Trump Cannabis Predictions

Cannabis enforcement evolves from partnership to professional oversight as markets mature.

Aug 7, 2025

🏛️ Minnesota Muni Cannabis • NY Track-and-Trace Relief • Delaware's $625K Launch

Municipal dispensaries meet federal reality while regulatory systems implode nationwide

Aug 5, 2025

💰🚫🧠 Cannabis PAC's Trump Bet, Hemp Ban Blocked, Senate Discovers Own Research Barriers

Industry deploys sophisticated influence strategy while Congress realizes Schedule 1 restrictions were inside job all along

Aug 4, 2025

🏗️ MSO Meltdown + Trump's Private Cannabis Promises + NY's $250K Relocation "Fix"

AYR's liquidation exposes how prohibition turns distressed cannabis companies into lender acquisition opportunities

Aug 1, 2025

🌱 Delaware’s Adult-Use Win, NY’s Regulatory Meltdown, and Federal Progress...on Psychedelics

Delaware’s adult-use market launches triumphantly, while New York’s regulatory failures pile up and the feds appear cool with psychedelics despite rescheduling delays

Jul 31, 2025

🎭 Delaware's Incumbent Playbook + LA's Equity Extraction Exposed

Mid-Atlantic launch confirms capture patterns while California's $13M program becomes bureaucratic wealth transfer...

Jul 30, 2025

🌿 Hemp Dodges Federal Ban, NY's OCM Disaster Deepens, Cannabis Substitutes for Alcohol

Senate strips hemp restrictions after Paul's threat, New York's proximity scandal gets worse, and federal data shows Americans trading booze for cannabis

Jul 29, 2025

🎭 DEA's Rescheduling Vanishing Act, CT's $2.5M Cannabis Fraud, Testing Labs Sue for $1B

Cole drops cannabis from priorities despite confirmation promises, Connecticut cracks down on fake license schemes, and equipment fraud exposes industry's testing vulnerability

Jul 23, 2025

🏛️ Federal DEA Chief, Texas Hemp Ban, and Big Alcohol's Cannabis Strategy

Governor wants regulation, Senate wants prohibition, and 8,500 retailers hang in the balance

Jul 22, 2025

🔬 NY testing lab vanishes after recall scandal + Senate advances Trump's DEA pick

Cannabis testing fraud spreads as labs game the system while Trump's DEA pick heads to confirmation vote + Hemp retail hits the brakes in Rhode Island

Jul 21, 2025

🚨 Texas GOP splits on THC while NC courts expand police powers + DOGE cuts federal cannabis research

Patrick vs. Abbott feud overshadows special session while North Carolina hemp ruling empowers searches + Trump's efficiency team targets University of Mississippi marijuana program

Jul 18, 2025

Why hemp's Big Alcohol courtship could backfire + PA's $1.6M cannabis equity battle

Cannabis unity fractures as hemp seeks legitimacy through alcohol's political machine + Pennsylvania's $1.6M lobbying battle over who controls the legal market

Jul 17, 2025

Federal Cannabis Contradictions Exposed: USDA Says "Medicinal" While DEA Keeps Schedule 1

Daily cannabis and hemp policy intelligence — built by a regulator, decoded for operators.

Jul 16, 2025

Michigan's $3.7M Cannabis Crackdown + Arkansas Hemp Victory + THC Beverages Hit $382M

Why Michigan's violation spree signals trouble for MSOs nationwide, plus the Arkansas ruling that changes everything for hemp markets...