Pennsylvania Should Legalize Marijuana In A Way That Gives Smaller Businesses A Chance To Compete (Op-Ed)
“Legalization alone does not guarantee a competitive market, and simply allowing existing companies to serve more customers would fall short of what Pennsylvania needs.” By Gabe Perlow, Tri-Mountain Pure Under Governor Josh Shapiro’s (D) leadership, we have just achieved something that hasn’t happened since the early 1990s here in Pennsylvania. The Senate has flipped to […]
DEA Is Rejecting Medical Marijuana Businesses That Want Federal Rescheduling Protections In Multiple States
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has rejected applications for federal registration and protections to medical marijuana businesses in at least six states and Washington, D.C., Marijuana Moment has learned. While it became publicly known late last month that the agency had approved more than 900 applicants across seven states under the Trump administration’s cannabis rescheduling […]
DEA readies list of cannabis businesses that applied for federal protections (Newsletter: October 29, 2026)
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Hemp Businesses Are About To Learn What Marijuana Operators Already Know: Payroll Can Disappear Overnight (Op-Ed)
“When a payment processor leaves, a business loses convenience. When a payroll provider leaves, people miss paychecks, and employer liability goes through the roof.” By Leah Kollross, Roll With Paid Last Thursday was the final deadline that Square gave its merchants to pull every single CBD and hemp-derived product out of their catalogs, online and […]
Marijuana Businesses Fighting To Ban Hemp THC Products Are Being Short-Sighted (Op-Ed)
“If the industry we created now argues that THC is safe in a dispensary but dangerous in a liquor store, voters and policymakers will reasonably conclude we were never serious.” By Aaron Smith, Third Rail Advisory Chris Lindsey and I both spent years at the Marijuana Policy Project before going on to help build the […]
DEA Opens New Schedule III Registration Portal for Medical Cannabis Businesses
The DEA has opened a new registration process for state-licensed medical cannabis manufacturers, distributors and analytical laboratories seeking to operate under Schedule III. The move brings qualifying medical cannabis businesses into a federal controlled-substances framework while potentially offering major tax advantages by ending the Section 280E deduction ban for those businesses. Schedule III Is Coming […]
Oregon Psilocybin Businesses Celebrate As State Officials Rescind Proposed Fee Hikes
“This was an industry fighting for its survival, and it really came together. This is a profound thing.” By Jake Thomas, Oregon Capital Chronicle State regulators have backed off pursuing sizable fee increases on Oregon’s magic mushroom businesses after dire warnings from the legal psilocybin industry that it would buckle under the added costs. The […]