Based on reported election calls available Thursday, November 5, 2026. Results remain subject to counting and certification.
There is a particular kind of optimism (or pessimism) that arrives the morning after an election. Your preferred candidates won (or lost), the map looks different, and suddenly the things Washington could not get done yesterday seem inevitable
DEA giveth and taketh away.
Whether you submitted your DEA registration application during the initial 60-day window or are still working toward federal registration, DEA’s new guidance requires your attention. For “timely applicants” (defined below), it means checking trading partners’ paperwork and establishing compliant supply chains by November 29, 2026. For operators who did not
If you blinked this week, you may have missed Alabama cannabis news breaking, un-breaking, and re-breaking within about 24 hours. According to an analysis published by Alabama Political Reporter, multiple outlets reported Monday that Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission Executive Director John McMillan planned to step down at the commission’s October 29 meeting. AMCC Chairman
As usual, Tom Petty was spot on when he sang, “the waiting is the hardest part.” Marijuana rescheduling has tested that proposition all year, and this week it was retested. We’ve spent a lot of ink this year on what happens after marijuana rescheduling lands, on advertising rules, on data breaches, and on
Back in May, I wrote a piece predicting that Schedule III rescheduling would flip the first prong of the Central Hudson commercial speech test for state-licensed medical marijuana operators. My thought at the time was that speech proposing a transaction in a federally lawful product concerns “lawful activity,” and that term has been the death
Groucho Marx famously said, “I wouldn’t want to belong to a club that would have me as a member.” For years, many state-legal medical marijuana operators pleaded to be allowed into the club, essentially making this promise: “Bring us into the federal fold, and we’ll play by federal rules.”
Having finally gotten that wish, at
A Michigan marijuana grower won a $31.8 million jury verdict for breach of contract… then watched it disappear on appeal. On September 10, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit held that federal courts cannot enforce a contract to buy and sell marijuana because performing the deal required the parties to commit
In the iconic halftime scene of Friday Night Lights, Coach Gary Gaines (played with a charming ferocity the way only Billy Bob Thornton could muster) looks his team in the eyes and tells them they have exactly “two more quarters and that’s it.” He challenges them to live in that high-stakes moment with “clear eyes
Every good legal thriller needs a twist, and this one’s a doozy: The DEA — the agency that’s spent over 50 years playing prohibition’s final boss — is now the one arguing marijuana doesn’t belong in Schedule I anymore, while the seven groups it hand-picked to participate in the hearing are the ones fighting to
There’s a scene near the end of every heist movie where the crew finally cracks the vault and it’s empty. Somebody already got there first, or the money was never really in there to begin with. Four months into medical marijuana’s move to Schedule III, that’s starting to feel like the right metaphor for cannabis