20 Dec, 2025

Alabama approves long-delayed medical cannabis dispensaries, Kentucky opens its first licensed medical marijuana store, and Minnesota expands adult-use cannabis through new tribal partnerships. Meanwhile, Michigan and New Jersey move to crack down on intoxicating hemp-derived THC products like Delta-8 and THCA.

We also cover Missouri’s push to fix its cannabis microbusiness and social-equity program, New York’s adjustments to Metrc compliance deadlines, Maine’s effort to repeal recreational marijuana, and a federal executive order accelerating cannabis rescheduling to Schedule III.

👉 Medical marijuana, adult-use cannabis, hemp THC regulation, and federal policy — all in one episode.

NOTE: To make this episode's narration more dynamic, it was generated by a text-to-voice AI.

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