Forget the timeline. Here’s the game. Virginia built a market with hard caps, a lottery, ownership ceilings, and a five-month application runway. That combination means this is not a business plan competition. It’s a qualification and positioning problem. The people who win licenses will mostly be the people who correctly identified which lane they could…

This sucks for retailers, and it’s worth just saying that plainly before getting into the legal mechanics. Friday, Judge Ballou denied the TRO and the injunction hemp businesses filed to stop HB 30 from taking effect. The taking claim didn’t hold. Economic loss isn’t treated as irreparable harm under the standard he was working with.…

Senate Delays Federal Hemp Ban to December 11, Sends Funding Bill to House 61-32. Then 90-6. Those are the numbers that matter. The Senate voted early Saturday morning to fund the federal government through December 11, and buried inside that funding bill is a one-month reprieve for the hemp industry from a ban that was…