Trump signed an EO to accelerate cannabis rescheduling. Headlines cheered. Small hemp businesses asked if this saves them from the November ban. It does not. Here is what actually changes and what does not.
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Ohio SB 56 took effect March 20 and banned all intoxicating hemp products including beverages. The THC seltzer category was cannabis going mainstream. Alcohol interests just nuked it before most consumers tried one.
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Texas closed the hemp THCA flower loophole as of March 31. I have been shipping vape hardware to Texas since 2013 — here is what this does to farmers, shops, consumers, and why alcohol lobbies were behind it.
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Last week the House Agriculture Committee voted 34-17 to advance the 2026 Farm Bill with the November hemp ban intact. No amendments. No delays. Here is what this means for small businesses, farmers, and consumers — from 13 years inside the cannabis hardware industry.
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If you are in the hemp industry — or if you are a consumer who enjoys hemp-derived THC products — you need to circle November 12, 2026 on your calendar. That is the date when new federal THC limits take effect, and they are going to obliterate the hemp edibles and beverages market as we
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Snoop Dogg just made one of the more interesting moves in cannabis genetics this year. His Death Row Records brand has partnered with Sensi Seeds — one of the oldest and most respected seed banks in the world — to release five exclusive strains in the American market. And honestly? This one has my attention.
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For the first time in American history, daily cannabis users outnumber daily alcohol drinkers. Read that again. The substance that has been demonized, criminalized, and Schedule I classified for decades now has more daily users than the one you can buy at every gas station in the country. This is not some fringe study. The
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In a political climate where you cannot get 137 people to agree on what day of the week it is, Maryland’s House of Delegates just voted 137-0 to protect veterinarians who recommend cannabis for animals. Unanimous. Not a single dissenting vote. If this bill clears the Senate and gets the governor’s signature, Maryland becomes the
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Massachusetts just passed the “Act Modernizing Cannabis Laws” and it is one of the most significant state-level cannabis reforms we have seen in a while. The headline number: possession limits are doubling from one ounce to two ounces. But there is a lot more going on here, and not all of it is good. What
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Roger Stone went on the record this week saying someone inside the Trump administration is actively blocking marijuana rescheduling. His words, not mine — but I have to say, it tracks. It has been over three months since Trump signed the executive order directing the DOJ and HHS to review marijuana’s Schedule I classification. Three
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In 2016, while Arizona voters were deciding on Proposition 205 — a ballot measure to legalize recreational cannabis — a pharmaceutical company called Insys Therapeutics quietly donated $500,000 to the opposition campaign. That half-million dollars made Insys the single largest donor fighting to keep weed illegal in Arizona. Their sole product? Subsys, a sublingual fentanyl
On December 18, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order directing the DEA to begin the process of rescheduling cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III. It was the most significant federal cannabis policy shift in decades. Advocates celebrated. The cannabis industry breathed a collective sigh of relief. That was nearly four months ago. Nothing
