Rhode Island

Sep 15, 2025

🌾 GOP Hemp Patchwork • RI Market Limits • Plastic Pollution Paradox

Tennessee builds a red-state hemp template, Rhode Island bets on scarcity, and packaging rules create environmental contradictions.

Sep 2, 2025

📊 Two-Thirds Back Legalization • CA Tax Freeze • TX Expansion • UK Smuggling Surge

Emerson poll shows 65% support for nationwide legalization as Trump weighs rescheduling. California freezes its tax hike, Texas expands medical access, and cheap U.S. cannabis fuels UK smuggling networks.

Aug 13, 2025

🔥 MAGA Cannabis War Erupts + SAM’s Cold Leftovers

Trump allies battle over rescheduling as prohibitionists panic and states advance strategic, reactionary positioning.

Aug 11, 2025

⚖️ Trump Signals Rescheduling Decision • Conservative Backlash Accelerates • Cannabis Prices Collapse

White House Chief of Staff reviews agency reports as retail traders pile into cannabis stocks despite Sean Spicer's legalization warning

Aug 8, 2025

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

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

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 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