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This week’s Reefer Report Card cuts through the hype around cannabis “rescheduling,” exposing how a label change left federal prohibition fully intact. Arrest authority, workplace punishment, and immigration penalties remain untouched. Headlines claimed progress. Reality delivered none. A week defined by performance over policy, and reform that never arrived.
Federal officials claim cannabis is moving forward, but Schedule III changes nothing that matters. This investigation breaks down what rescheduling actually does, what it deliberately avoids, and why prohibition logic remains intact. Arrests continue. Markets remain conflicted. Reform language replaces reform action. The system shifts labels while preserving control.
Cannabis rescheduling keeps resurfacing in headlines, then vanishing without action. This feature breaks down how federal officials repeatedly float reform language, let deadlines pass, and leave the law untouched. By tracing the mechanics behind the stall, the piece exposes why delay is intentional, who benefits from it, and why cannabis reform remains trapped in federal limbo.
This week’s Reefer Report Card exposes a system under strain as federal hemp policy whiplashes, New York’s cannabis regulator unravels, and Massachusetts stirs panic over THC potency. Patients and workers absorb the fallout while international reform stalls under bureaucratic drag. Cannabis holds steady. Governance does not.
Massachusetts faces a new THC accuracy fight after a law enforcement group claims dispensary labels inflate potency. Testing limits, natural variance, and oversight failures collide as the state struggles to rebuild trust in a system built on imperfect numbers. This feature exposes how the market turned THC into gospel and why the truth was never that simple.
Congress shocked the country when it passed a shutdown bill that would eliminate 99% of hemp products by 2026. Public backlash forced lawmakers to respond, and a new Senate bill now aims to replace prohibition with regulation. The fight is far from over, but pressure is already reshaping the political landscape around hemp.
