Welcome back to the buzz, our monthly cannabis news and policy update. Your at-a-glance source for regulatory developments, agency announcements, and trends impacting the cannabis industry.
In this edition of the buzz, highlights include:
- Hemp definition delayed—for now: Senate CR (if enacted) will push back key portions of the new federal hemp definition to Dec. 11, but the synthetic cannabinoid ban still hits November 12
- Rescheduling grinds forward: DEA wraps its hearing with briefs due August 17 and no set deadline for the judge's report; SAM fights to keep cannabis businesses out of the D.C. Circuit litigation
- 280E & the new AG: Newly confirmed AG Todd Blanche sidesteps rescheduling and 280E questions; in NM Top Organics, IRS argues April rescheduling order offers no retroactive relief
- State Markets in flux: MA to vote on ballot measure to eliminate licensed adult-use sales; UT accepting rural medical cannabis pharmacy licenses applications through Sept. 2; NE's first medical licenses expected Sept.
- Hemp patchwork widens: DE greenlights THC beverages; hemp industry sues MO over its new limits; NC delays its hemp bill; TX reinstates Schedule I language
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