North Carolina

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 9, 2025

🌽 Nebraska Plant Cap Fight • MA Cafes & Med Market • Tyson on Rescheduling

Nebraska’s governor forces emergency plant caps, Massachusetts faces café backlash and a collapsing medical market, and Mike Tyson says “good news” on rescheduling is coming. Plus: equity tours, senior use, and NC’s smell test.

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 14, 2025

📜 Power, Profits, and a Hemp Lawsuit in NC

A lawsuit against a top North Carolina lawmaker exposes the fragile trust between politics and hemp. Plus: cannabis equity lessons, federal shakeups, and why CEOs should rethink “power proximity.”

Jul 8, 2025

🚨 Hemp Crackdowns, Market Warnings, and a SEAL’s Psychedelic Take

North Carolina takes aim at the hemp loophole. Cannabis markets wobble in New Jersey and DC. And a Navy SEAL adds weight to the psychedelics-for-PTSD debate.

Jun 26, 2025

Policy, Decoded: Regulators Move. Lawmakers Stall. Markets Shift.

No Decoded Insight today - because there’s no grand pivot, just a flood of regulatory drafts, market signals, and legislative posturing. But the map is still moving.

Jun 20, 2025

Policy, Decoded: Enforcers, Legislators...and Now Plaintiffs

Hemp crackdowns are escalating—but it’s the lawsuits that could reshape the industry first.