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Weed reform is supposed to be progress. Instead, it’s a never-ending loop of vetoes, raids, audits, and political theater. Let’s grade the week in weed before the clowns run out of cars.
FEDERAL STALL JOB
DEA Still Raiding While Rescheduling Stalls
The DEA hit licensed dispensaries in Nevada and Wisconsin this week for “compliance violations,” seizing products and shutting down businesses, all while federal leadership trots out the same tired promise of rescheduling “someday.”
Translation: enforcement today, reform tomorrow, and tomorrow never comes.
GOVERNMENT CLOWN CAR AWARD
Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission Audit Meets the Feds’ “Maybe”
In the same week, Massachusetts regulators were blasted in a state audit for botched oversight and uncollected fees, the White House gave us the bold declaration that cannabis rescheduling “might be considered.”
Neither move helps patients, businesses, or consumers. Two levels of government, one shared knack for avoiding action.
LOCAL TRAINWRECK
New York’s Zoning Chaos Still Screws Weed Shops
New York regulators admitted this week that dozens of licensed dispensaries were approved for storefronts that are now out of compliance because of shifting zoning rules. Applicants followed OCM’s guidance, then the state pulled a U-turn.
Pot Culture Magazine covered this mess in full. It’s the perfect mix of bureaucracy and betrayal, a masterclass in kneecapping the very equity program the state bragged about building.
MOST UNHINGED STORY
Michigan State Raids $10 Million Illegal Grow
Michigan State Police raided an unlicensed grow in Baldwin, seizing over 13,400 plants and hundreds of pounds of flower from a 17,000-square-foot facility on 19 acres. Estimated street value: over $10 million.
The site had no valid Cannabis Regulatory Agency license, but the scale of the operation still stunned locals. Officials warned of contamination risks, as if pesticides are scarier than a SWAT team tearing through a greenhouse.
FINAL GRADE: F
When the DEA raids legal shops, Massachusetts fumbles regulation, New York sabotages its own equity program, and the feds offer nothing but a “maybe,” the grade writes itself. This week, the war on weed isn’t fading; it’s regrouping.
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