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Aug 31, 2026	Is the Global Shift to the Right Threatening International Cannabis Reforms? Who controls government is one of the most important factors when discussing cannabis reform. Most international cannabis advisors focus on a country’s cannabis policies, but not necessarily on the politics that created those policies. They also tend to overlook the politics that will determine their future. That is where I differ. I not only follow cannabis policy, but also the politics that can determine whether those policies advance, stall, or move backwards.
Aug 31, 2026	Here’s how cannabis legalization affected tobacco, alcohol and opioid use: McGill study A new study out of McGill University shows that cannabis legalization has created a mixed bag of positive and negative impacts in addition to having possible effects on other substance use. Study lead Sarah Windle said that, as expected, medical and recreational cannabis legislation increased initiation and prevalence of use among adults. “What we were particularly interested in is whether other substance use changes, in particular, whether there’s consequences for even legal drugs such as alcohol or tobacco, because together alcohol and tobacco actually account for about 95 per cent of substance-related mortality worldwide,” said the PhD candidate in McGill’s department of epidemiology.
Aug 31, 2026	House To Vote On Delaying Hemp THC Ban This Week, Giving Lawmakers More Time To Craft Regulations To Keep Products Legal The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to consider a bill this week that contains provisions to delay the federal recriminalization of hemp THC products that is currently scheduled to take effect in November. The legislation, which has already been approved by the Senate, is intended to give lawmakers more time to craft regulations as an alternative to prohibition.
Aug 31, 2026	Rastafari leader urges brethren to join legal cannabis industry High Priest Selah, also known as Conneal Christian, is urging Rastafari brethren still operating outside the law to join the regulated cannabis industry, warning that division within the community is undermining the economic opportunities now available. The Nyabinghi Order leader made the appeal during an interview with Observer Media on the state of Antigua and Barbuda’s cannabis sector, framing legalisation as an opportunity the community must not squander through infighting.
Aug 31, 2026	BC, Ontario Lead in Cannabis Licensing in 2026, Revocations Surpass New Licences There have been 45 new cannabis production licences issued in Canada in the first eight months of 2026. As of the end of August, there are 900 federal cannabis licences. More than seven in 10 of these new licences were Micros (32), 24% were Standard (11), and one each was a Nursery and a Medical Sales-Only licence. Most new Micros (18 of 32) received both a Micro cultivation and a Micro Processing licence. British Columbia was home to the most new licences, with 18 (15 Micro, two Standard, one MSO). Ontario followed this with 12 (six Micro, six Standard), and Quebec with eight.*
Aug 30, 2026	A high old time! More than half of NYC senior citizens now use weed simply ‘to get high’: study Senior citizens in the Big Apple are using marijuana at record levels, with the vast majority doing it simply “to get high” rather than for medical reasons, according to a new study. Roughly 60% of people ages 65 and older in the city admitted they get stoned just for fun — outnumbering those who partake to treat chronic pain, relieve tension or sleep, said the study by NYU Langone, which surveyed hundreds of older adults in New York City.
Aug 30, 2026	Who Gets to Name a Weed Strain? Nobody. Everybody. There is no registry, no copyright and no authority. Six breeders on how a plant gets its name, who has the right to give it one, and why the market is drowning in names that mean nothing.
Aug 30, 2026	Scientists Discover a Cannabis Receptor That Could Stop Breast Cancer Spreading Cancer cells are proving trickier than we thought, so scientists are getting even trickier to shift the survival odds in our favor. Recent medical research has highlighted a significant issue: cancer cells display plasticity. Some cancer cells can spontaneously revert from a differentiated state to become 'immature' and stem-cell-like again, switching their identity to yield more diverse, aggressive, and proliferative tumors. As a result, they thwart traditional treatments like chemotherapy and radiation, which aim to stop cellular division and kill cancerous (and other) cells outright.
Aug 29, 2026	Cannabis Overtakes Cigarette Smoking In Gallup’s Latest U.S. Habits Poll Americans who say they smoke cannabis have overtaken those who say they smoke cigarettes, according to Gallup's latest poll on U.S. habits, reinforcing a broader trend of cannabis gaining favor over tobacco and alcohol.
Aug 29, 2026	The Industry Bet Against Bud. Flower Smokers Never Left. The cannabis industry spent years predicting flower’s decline. Grown Rogue CEO and co-founder Obie Strickler argues that the prediction said more about industry executives than it did about consumers.
Aug 29, 2026	Study Finds CBD Suppressed Growth and Invasion of Human Glioma Cells, While Reducing Tumor Growth in a Mouse Model Cannabidiol (CBD) significantly suppressed the growth, migration and invasion of glioma cells while reducing tumor burden in mice, according to a new study that identified a potential mechanism behind the cannabinoid’s anticancer effects. The study, published in BioMed Research International, was conducted by researchers affiliated with Anhui Medical University, Lu’an People’s Hospital and the Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences. Researchers examined whether CBD limits glioma progression partly by suppressing lysyl oxidase-like 2 (LOXL2), a protein involved in extracellular-matrix remodeling and cancer-cell invasiveness.
Aug 29, 2026	Tennis players complain as smell of cannabis distracts at US Open Britain’s US Open hopefuls thought they had put the grass behind them when Wimbledon finished – but the smell of it is all around Flushing Meadows. Marijuana is legal for adults in New York and while smoking is not allowed on site, the aroma of weed wafts over some outside courts from the nearby Corona Park.
Aug 28, 2026	Diversity is not the same as equity in US cannabis industry (This is a contributed guest column. To be considered as an MJBizDaily guest columnist, please submit your request here.) The first time I understood cannabis enforcement, I was with five friends on the side of a road while police searched our car. Only one of us was white. He had smoked a blunt. An officer said he smelled cannabis, and that was reason enough to detain all six of us and search the vehicle. The officer didn’t know who had smoked or what lives we would go on to lead. In that moment, a smell turned a group of young men into a police matter. new framework ctas (2) My white friend later became an exceptional legal cannabis grower, but prohibition affected him by criminalizing the plant around which he developed expertise. I entered government and worked on cannabis regulation, social equity funding and business development. Both stories belong in the legal cannabis industry. But that encounter taught me that the same law can touch several people without leaving the same scars. That difference is what equity is supposed to measure. Are diversity and equity synonyms? Diversity asks who is present. Inclusion asks who is permitted to participate. Equity asks who was harmed, what was taken from them and whether resources, authority and opportunity are being directed toward repairing that injury. A cannabis company can employ people of different races and genders while ownership, investment and executive control remain concentrated among people with the greatest access to capital.
Aug 28, 2026	Colorado Governor Pardons More People For Marijuana Convictions Colorado’s governor has issued additional pardons for past marijuana convictions, adding to the thousands of such acts of cannabis clemency he has granted to date. Gov. Jared Polis (D) on Wednesday pardoned 29 people—several of whom were sentenced for cannabis-related crimes.
Aug 28, 2026	The Future of Cannabis Tourism Starts on the Farm Cannabis Wine Tours founder Charles Kimball argues that farmer-hosted experiences can connect visitors with the land while giving small Northern California growers another way to be seen and supported.
Aug 28, 2026	Poll finds 90% of Aurora investors oppose Curaleaf takeover bid An informal poll by The Marijuana Herald finds 90% of self-identified Aurora Cannabis investors oppose Curaleaf Holdings' current takeover bid, while 64% of self-identified Curaleaf investors support the proposed acquisition. The Marijuana Herald collected the first 50 responses from people identifying as Aurora investors and the first 50 from those identifying as Curaleaf investors, for a total of 100 respondents. Investors who identified as shareholders in both companies were excluded. The poll is not scientific, and The Marijuana Herald did not independently verify respondents' share ownership.
Aug 28, 2026	Connecting the Dots Between Cannabis Laws and Workplace Absenteeism No one wants to hear their HR teams talk about marijuana or other controlled substances in the workplace, whether for medical use or its recreational benefits, but these topics are worth being transparent about. New research from the University of Georgia shows that changes to cannabis laws can have a direct impact on workplace absenteeism, specifically in terms of medical marijuana usage. According to the paper, states where medical cannabis use has been authorized can find employees taking fewer days of sick leave by about 6.9%. While no direct links have been established between recreational cannabis legalization and health-related workplace absenteeism, employees who rely on the substance for wellness reasons can find much relief, adding a vote in favor of legalization of medical marijuana use.
Aug 28, 2026	Medical Cannabis Reduces Pain, Insomnia Or Mood Issues In 91% Of Older Adults, Study Finds Medical marijuana helps 91 percent of older adults improve their pain, insomnia and mood or behavioral symptoms, a new study has found. The research involved 124 people over the age of 65 who received medical cannabis from a specialized practice in Colombia and whose symptoms were measured at baseline, 44 of whom had a follow-up visit after three months. Most of the participants had not previously used marijuana, and the most frequent diagnoses they presented with were pain-related and musculoskeletal disorders, cancer and neurodegenerative and non-degenerative neurological disorders—with their top therapeutic objectives being relief of pain, mood/behavioral issues, insomnia and motor symptoms.
Aug 28, 2026	Canada now the world’s largest legal cannabis market OTTAWA — Canada is now the largest legal cannabis market in the world by monthly retail sales, with dispensaries outnumbering liquor stores in some communities as national sales climb to record levels. Statistics Canada says cannabis stores sold $517.8 million worth of products in June, setting a monthly record. The previous month also surpassed half a billion dollars, with revised May sales reaching $510.4 million. Both totals exceeded the previous record of $508.6 million set in December 2025.
Aug 27, 2026	Market Convenience Outperforms Price in Legal Cannabis Adoption A new study says variety and convenience seem to drive consumer choices in the legal market, while price is not a significant differentiator. The research, published in the Journal of Cannabis Research, compares provincial retail systems and concludes that legal market adoption was higher in provinces with competitive private retail systems. The article was accepted on August 10, 2026, and provides early access to its findings. While pricing remained relatively consistent across eight provinces, legal market adoption reached 78% in the four provinces with private retail (Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta), compared to 69% in provinces with uniform systems (PEI, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec).
Aug 27, 2026	Gallup: 17% of Americans Smoke Cannabis; 15% Consume Edibles Seventeen percent of Americans said they smoke cannabis, according to a Gallup poll released Monday. The figure ties the previous record high found by the pollster in 2023. In 2024, the number of Americans polled by Gallup who said they smoked cannabis fell to 13% but rose to 14% in 2025. Another 15% of those polled indicated they consume cannabis edibles, including 17% of women and 12% of men; comparatively, 15% of women and 18% of men said they smoked cannabis.
Aug 27, 2026	The High-THC Cannabis Debate Misses the Point: Adults Already Understand Potency There is a strange assumption buried inside much of the modern debate over high-potency cannabis. It assumes adults cannot adjust how much cannabis they consume. A flower testing above 30% THC, a potent hash, a concentrate or another high-cannabinoid product is frequently discussed as though its potency automatically determines how much someone will use. But consumers do not necessarily consume every cannabis product in identical quantities. Someone smoking a powerful concentrate can take a considerably smaller amount than someone smoking flower. Someone using strong flower can take one pull instead of finishing an entire joint. Experienced consumers regularly adjust dosage based on product type, tolerance, desired experience, setting and budget. That basic idea has become central to an increasingly important conversation inside legal cannabis.
Aug 27, 2026	The Vault Is Still Locked—A Banking Update on Cannabis Rescheduling 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 banking — not because nobody’s trying to open the vault, but because it turns out rescheduling didn’t come with a combination.
Aug 27, 2026	Strong Weed Is No Reason for Prohibition Weed has come a long way since Up in Smoke. While there are disagreements about the potency advertised by retailers, there is little dispute that cannabis products have higher THC content than ever before. Concerns about that development were recently heightened by a study challenging the idea that cannabis has low addictive potential.
Aug 26, 2026	WHO updates its assessment of cannabis risks for the first time in ten years The World Health Organization (WHO) has presented its first updated review of the consequences of the nonmedical use of cannabis since 2016. Over the past ten years, the situation has changed so significantly that, according to experts, the previous conclusions no longer reflect reality, the UN reported, UNN writes.
Aug 26, 2026	Common condition that impacts millions of Illinois women can now be treated with medical marijuana A common hormonal and metabolic disorder that affects more than 170 women worldwide can now be treated in Illinois with medical marijuana. According to a Tuesday announcement from the Illinois Department of Public Health, chronic pain from polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, also known as PMOS, can now be treated by doctors in Illinois with cannabis. Pain associated with sickle cell disease has also been added to the list of "debilitating medical conditions" approved for such treatment, the IDPH said.
Aug 26, 2026	Canadian Marijuana Producers Expand Their Footprint in Europe Canada-based cannabis producer Tilray Brands recently announced that it was increasing its cultivation footprint in Europe and Canada as demand for medical marijuana continues to rise across regulated markets. According to the company, its yearly production capacity has increased to roughly 275 metric tons, compared with about 210 tons previously. The additional capacity is expected to support expanding sales in overseas markets, particularly across Australia, Europe, and other jurisdictions with established cannabis regulations.
Aug 26, 2026	Industry Responds After DEA Releases Rescheduling Transcripts The Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) hearing on President Trump’s marijuana rescheduling proposal wrapped up last month, but this week the DEA published the transcripts from the multi-day affair. The transcripts prompted responses from notable industry stakeholders.
Aug 26, 2026	Can Cannabis Consumers Convince Government That It’s Time for Industry Reform? When Canada legalized recreational cannabis in 2018, it resolved one of the most contentious issues surrounding the plant. Canadians who believed people should not be criminalized for consuming cannabis had something clear to fight for, and ending prohibition gave them what they wanted. But legalization did not resolve many of the issues facing the industry that emerged in the years that followed. Cannabis businesses continue to push for changes to excise taxes, packaging and promotion restrictions, THC limits, and other regulations. What has largely disappeared is the public constituency demanding change alongside them.
Aug 26, 2026	DEA Releases Full Marijuana Rescheduling Hearing Transcript As Judge Prepares To Issue His Recommendation The full official transcript of a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) hearing on the Trump administration’s marijuana rescheduling proposal has now been made available to the public. The release of the day-by-day record of the cannabis rescheduling proceedings comes after DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge Derek Julius ordered that dozens of mostly small and technical changes be made to an initial draft.
Aug 26, 2026	Canada surpasses California as largest cannabis market in the world California’s leaders love to brag about the state’s legal cannabis market being the largest in the world. Even when the legal market has shown deep problems and dysfunction, leaders could say that at least California was still No. 1. However, that no longer appears to be true. Canada’s federal government released data last week showing that its June sales totaled $517.8 million Canadian dollars, or about $374.5 million in U.S. dollars. That’s more than the $372.4 million that California sold the same month, according to the Department of Cannabis Control, meaning California has lost its superlative status.
Aug 25, 2026	FBI: Nearly 1 in 4 Drug Arrests Nationwide Are for Marijuana Possession State and local law enforcement made over 200,000 marijuana possession arrests in 2025 — comprising approximately 23 percent of all drug arrests nationwide, according to data compiled by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and posted on its Crime Data Explorer website.
Aug 25, 2026	Europe Has a Cannabis Prohibition Problem European authorities are blaming North American cannabis legalization for rising illicit cannabis trafficking, but the evidence tells a different story. As regulated markets displace illegal sales in North America, Europe’s continued prohibition may be creating the very conditions that fuel its illicit cannabis trade.
Aug 25, 2026	Reports Of Increases In Problematic Cannabis Use Don’t Mean We Should Return To Prohibition (Op-Ed) As a physician, I don’t dismiss recent reports of increases in problematic cannabis use. But we should avoid letting them trigger another drug-war moral panic. Cannabis use has increased as more states have legalized it for adults. That should surprise no one. When a widely used substance moves from an illicit market to a legal one, some who previously abstained will try it, some occasional users will use it more often and people will be more willing to admit they use it. Yet these recent patterns don’t tell us what cannabis use will look like going forward.
Aug 25, 2026	St Kitts sets global standard with seed-to-bank cannabis system Saint Kitts and Nevis will track the money in its medicinal cannabis sector as closely as the plants. The Medicinal Cannabis Authority (MCA) has contracted GrowerIQ to run a national seed-to-sale system that records every financial transaction alongside every plant and batch, from the first licence application onward. The design follows the Federation’s own rulebook. The Cannabis (Medicinal Cannabis Licensing) Regulations, SRO No. 17 of 2022 require every financial transaction connected to a licensed cannabis business to be recorded in the national tracking system, with the Authority holding real-time read access. Regulation 55 names seventeen transaction categories, from investments, loans and capital expenditure through rent, salaries and taxes to dividends and banking. The regulation ties the requirement to the country’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing obligations.
Aug 25, 2026	A growing trend among retirees is sparking neighborhood disputes Cannabis use among older Americans has climbed sharply in recent years, with many seniors turning to marijuana products to help manage chronic pain, sleep problems and other age-related issues. As the trend expands, however, some retirement communities, condominium buildings and neighborhoods are seeing increased friction between users and neighbors who object to lingering odors and secondhand smoke, The Wall Street Journal reported. Health researchers say adults ages 65 and older represent one of the fastest-growing groups of cannabis users in the United States. Increased legalization, wider availability of marijuana products and changing cultural attitudes have encouraged many baby boomers to revisit or begin using cannabis for medical and recreational purposes, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Aug 25, 2026	Cannabis Is Capitalism’s Next Fix We grew up being told, ?“Just say no,” ?“Say nope to dope,” ?“Choose life, not drugs.” Now we read articles about how psychedelics can improve brain health in mainstream media and scroll past Instagram posts advertising cannabis as the latest essential wellness treatment for on-the-go millennials. A change is happening, even if we can’t fully see it. Is the War on Drugs over? If so, who won? Or is it simply changing shape? How did this change come about, and what comes after it? If we have lost the War on Drugs, what does the postwar reconstruction look like? To understand why this shift is happening, and why now (after all, activists have been calling for drug legalisation since the 1960s), it helps to zoom out. We are living through an era the economic historian Adam Tooze has called a ?“polycrisis.” The economy is in long-term stagnation. Decades of free-market policy have carved a huge global divide between owners and earners, between asset holders and people who must work for a living. The global superpowers are descending into hostile trade wars, and people fear that artificial intelligence will take away the few remaining professional jobs. Everyone is looking for a fix.
Aug 25, 2026	Legal weed may have an unexpected workplace benefit Legal medical cannabis may be doing something employers might not expect: keeping more workers on the job and in good health. A new study published in the Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health found that medical cannabis decriminalization was associated with a roughly 6.9 percent reduction in the likelihood of health-related workplace absences. Researchers analyzed more than 20 million responses from the Current Population Survey, spanning January 1990 through March 2025.
Aug 25, 2026	More Than 200,000 People Were Arrested For Marijuana Possession In The U.S. Last Year, FBI Data Shows More than 200,000 people were arrested for possessing marijuana in the U.S. last year, according to the FBI’s latest annual crime report, and another 17,000 were booked for allegedly selling or growing cannabis. Those figures likely understate the true number of people busted for marijuana, however, given inconsistencies in the federal data and questions about the agency’s changing methodology from recent years, as well as the fact that about 13 percent of state and local law enforcement agencies did not contribute data for 2025.
Aug 25, 2026	Reports of Increases in Problematic Cannabis Use Don’t Mean We Should Return to Prohibition A free society should be capable of learning to live with potentially risky substances without the government banning them. As a physician, I don’t dismiss recent reports of increases in problematic cannabis use. But we should avoid letting them trigger another drug-war moral panic.
Aug 24, 2026	Trump Signed an Order Paying Farmers to Heal Their Soil. Weed Growers Get Nothing. This past June, President Trump signed an executive order expanding a pilot program the USDA had already funded, routed through conservation programs like EQIP and the Conservation Stewardship Program, which pays farmers for building soil health. Across row crops and rangeland, regenerative agriculture has moved from a fringe idea to the fastest-growing banner in farming. Almost none of that money will reach a marijuana farm.
Aug 24, 2026	Cannabis Law Reform Is Increasingly Gaining Prominence as Midterms Approach Cannabis policy is heading into the U.S. midterm elections as a politically complicated issue, with voters in some states considering ballot measures while candidates elsewhere take opposing positions on legalization. The debate comes as the country remains divided between broad public acceptance of cannabis and its continued prohibition under federal law. The issue could gain attention as November approaches, although voters are also focused on immigration, the economy, the conflict with Iran, and the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure.
Aug 24, 2026	Curaleaf Responds to Aurora Cannabis' Latest Attempt to Deflect From Shareholder Value Creation STAMFORD, Conn., Aug. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (TSX: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) ("Curaleaf"), a leading international provider of consumer and medical cannabis products, today responded to Aurora Cannabis Inc.'s (TSX: ACB) (NASDAQ: ACB) ("Aurora") latest public statements regarding Curaleaf's offer for Aurora: "Aurora's hollow protests and completely misleading statistics change nothing about reality: if its multi-year turnaround strategy were delivering the value management claims, the company's valuation would reflect it. Aurora has repeatedly failed to demonstrate both a credible plan and the ability to execute, resulting in significant lost shareholder value.
Aug 24, 2026	Are the cannabis shops we see across the shopping malls in South Africa operating legally? Jason Scott on News24 this morning is raising an important issue regarding the cannabis shops we see in many malls across South Africa. The legality of their activity is still questionable. People are currently allowed to grow for private consumption, not to deal in these shops. Indeed, the government has expressed a desire to grow the cannabis industry, and there are lots of people who want to be involved in the industry. But the legislative work to permit such trade is missing. Mainly, farmers and growers have permits to cultivate for medicinal and other uses. But the regulations for these shops remain very hazy. This issue needs closer attention.
Aug 24, 2026	Butcher of 39 years fired over medicinal cannabis wins job back - and $25k New Zealand - A butcher with nearly four decades of service at a meat works has been awarded $25,000 in compensation and ordered to be permanently reinstated after being summarily dismissed for failing a second workplace drug test while using prescribed medicinal cannabis.
Aug 24, 2026	Who’s using more weed? The answer may surprise you More Americans are consuming cannabis than ever before. The rise comes amid relaxed drug policies and wider normalization. The latest federal data suggest the generational gap may be narrowing, with older Americans reporting higher rates of use than ever before. According to the annual Monitoring the Future study, more than one in five older adults said they consumed cannabis in the last year. Around one in seven said they consumed it in the last month.
Aug 24, 2026	More Americans Are Now Smoking Marijuana Than Ever Before As Cigarettes Hit All-Time Low, Gallup Poll Shows A record-high number of U.S. adults now smoke marijuana, while cigarette smoking is at an all-time low, according to a new Gallup poll. The survey, published on Monday, shows that 17 percent of Americans over the age of 18 now smoke cannabis—more than double the 7 percent who said they smoke marijuana when Gallup first asked about the issue in 2013. Separately, 15 percent of American adults consume marijuana edibles, the poll found. In contrast, just 11 percent of U.S. adults said they smoked tobacco cigarettes within the past week. Nine percent said they vaped nicotine within the past seven days, while 4 percent used nicotine pouches.
Aug 24, 2026	Cannabis and Alcohol Exhibit Contradictory Effects on Driving Performance Drivers increase their speed following the use of alcohol but reduce their speed following the use of cannabis, according to an assessment of real-world driving performance published in the journal Accident, Analysis & Prevention. Consistent with driving simulator data, participants who consumed cannabis engaged in compensatory driving behavior. Researchers reported that “alcohol-involved trips showed increased proportions of speeding on primary and secondary roads, suggesting impaired judgment or compromised longitudinal vehicle control. In contrast, cannabis-positive trips had speeding proportions closely aligned with baseline conditions, likely indicating habituation or compensatory driving behaviors.”
Aug 24, 2026	Graphic of the day: Global cannabis usage As global restrictions around cannabis use ease, North American producers are acquiring European operators. World Population Review data highlights wide adoption variance. Canada leads at 26 percent and the US reaches 21.9 percent, contrasting with European markets like Germany (8.8 percent). In Asia, adoption remains low, with India reporting 2.8 percent usage.
Aug 24, 2026	US Cannabis at a Crossroads Key Points Section 781 would keep the 0.3% total THC limit for hemp plants while imposing separate thresholds on processing intermediates and finished cannabinoid products. Finished products containing more than 0.4 milligrams of combined total THC and designated similar-effect cannabinoids per container would no longer qualify as hemp. The intermediate-product rule could make ordinary U.S. extraction of full-spectrum hemp difficult because extraction naturally concentrates cannabinoids. Competing bills would repeal Section 781, establish consumer-safety rules, overhaul federal cannabis policy, or create category-specific regulation for hemp beverages. The article argues that federal policy should regulate products according to dose, intended use, manufacturing process, claims, and actual risk rather than plant origin alone. In 2018, Congress legalized hemp. Eight years later, Washington is still trying to decide what that means.

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