Category: Analysis

DEA Judge Freezes Cannabis Rescheduling Over a Report About Missing Paperwork

DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge Derek Julius stayed the cannabis rescheduling proceeding on September 29 while he decides whether to admit a Government Accountability Office report on scheduling procedures. The report found the DEA aligned with HHS in all 84 cases that reached a final decision. It makes no finding about cannabis. The three parties that asked for the stay were among the only outside participants the DEA admitted to the hearing, all of them opponents.

In Texas, One Delta-8 THC Gummy Can Carry More Prison Time Than an Ounce of Weed

A single four-gram delta-8 gummy can now expose its owner to a felony bracket that runs to twenty years, because Texas weighs the whole product and a gummy is mostly sugar. An ounce of marijuana is still a misdemeanor. The Legislature never voted for any of it, and the delta-9 gummies that survived the crackdown are legal on a technicality federal law erases in November.

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Italy Barely Has Any Fentanyl… Thanks to the Mafia? What the Evidence Says

Italy has extensive opioid use, established illicit drug markets and criminal organizations capable of moving substances across continents, yet fentanyl remains remarkably scarce. Theories range from mafia groups protecting established cocaine and heroin markets to simple differences in demand, while a recent hospital theft of 80 vials raises new questions about how long that absence can last. A recent article

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Are You Sure You’re Not Committing a Crime? The Supreme Court Ruling That Put Spain’s CBD Flower Industry on Edge and United the Entire Sector

Rafael Fernández de Noreña opened one of Spain’s first CBD shops in 2018. Eight years later, his company is closed and his case has become a precedent that prosecutors are already citing against other flower retailers. What Supreme Court ruling 301/2026 does and does not say, and how the industry organized to respond. “The company is closed. As a person,

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DEA Judge Freezes Cannabis Rescheduling Over a Report About Missing Paperwork

DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge Derek Julius stayed the cannabis rescheduling proceeding on September 29 while he decides whether to admit a Government Accountability Office report on scheduling procedures. The report found the DEA aligned with HHS in all 84 cases that reached a final decision. It makes no finding about cannabis. The three parties that asked for the stay were among the only outside participants the DEA admitted to the hearing, all of them opponents.

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Venezuela, Drugs and Oil: How Washington’s Policy Has Changed

Washington has removed Venezuela from the group of countries deemed to have “failed demonstrably” in their anti-drug obligations while maintaining it on the broader list of major drug-transit and producing countries, citing growing cooperation with Delcy Rodríguez’s interim government. At the same time, U.S. oil companies and policymakers are rapidly deepening their involvement in Venezuela’s enormous crude reserves, raising questions

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An Eighth of Weed Costs $15 in Washington and $52 in Kentucky. The Reason Isn’t What You Think.

The national price of an eighth moved seven cents in a year, but 24 of 34 states cut theirs. Medical patients look gouged until you weight by how much each state actually sells, and then the gap vanishes to a single cent. What’s left is store count: states with fewer than 25 dispensaries sell an eighth at $43.89, states with more than 300 sell it at $18.50.

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Inside the Mushroom-and-Hemp Coffin Designed to Return Bodies to the Earth

Dutch company Loop Biotech’s Living Cocoon is a biodegradable coffin made from mycelium and recycled hemp fibers that can break down in roughly 45 days while helping return nutrients to the soil. The concept gained fresh attention after a 70-year-old woman named Carolyn became the first person in Australia to be buried in one. What should happen to our bodies

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In Texas, One Delta-8 THC Gummy Can Carry More Prison Time Than an Ounce of Weed

A single four-gram delta-8 gummy can now expose its owner to a felony bracket that runs to twenty years, because Texas weighs the whole product and a gummy is mostly sugar. An ounce of marijuana is still a misdemeanor. The Legislature never voted for any of it, and the delta-9 gummies that survived the crackdown are legal on a technicality federal law erases in November.

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