9 deadlines in the next two weeks.

Unverified Representatives Barr and Craig introduced a bipartisan bill on July 22, 2026 to establish a federal regulatory framework for hemp-derived consumer products in place of the Section 781 ban. A Senate companion is expected.

Unverified In United States v. TerrAscend USA, Inc. and Subsidiaries (D.N.J. 2:26-cv-05640), the Justice Department's suit to recover a Section 280E tax refund, the docket shows a scheduling order entered October 5, 2026 and an amended complaint filed October 8, 2026. Press reports give the government until November 19, 2026 to respond to the motion to dismiss, with the motion to be decided on the papers on December 21, 2026. Those dates come from press reports; the orders themselves are not yet public.

Unverified AB 2250, the cleanup of the 2025 hemp law (AB 8), was signed by the Governor on September 27, 2026. It excludes high-purity CBN isolate from the cannabis concentrate definition from January 1, 2028. Its enforcement provisions, including the ban on any sale of cannabis or products presumed to be cannabis by tobacco retailers, carry no stated operative date and take effect on the ordinary schedule for a 2026 statute; no primary source has stated that date yet. AB 1965 on cannabis testing quality assurance was signed the same day and likewise states no operative date.

Unverified The emergency act that let conditional medical cannabis licensees convert with a zoning certificate expired October 28, 2026. Its companion temporary act, B26-0760, passed its final reading on September 22, 2026 and was transmitted to the Mayor in early October 2026 according to bill tracking; it still needs the Mayor's signature and congressional review before it can take the emergency act's place, and no effective date has been published. A permanent version has not been introduced.

Unverified The Access to Medical Cannabis Commission voted on September 30, 2026 to adopt its Rule Chapter 351 rewrite: amendments to Chapters 351-1 through 351-8 (including 351-5 Seed-to-Sale Tracking), with four non-substantive changes from public feedback, plus new Rule 351-6-.11 Delivery, new Rule 351-8-.07 Factors for Product Recall, and new Chapter 351-9 Research Permits. The Commission's meeting summary, posted October 2, 2026, records the vote. Written comments closed September 9, 2026, the hearing was held September 16, 2026, and the Commission voted to adopt on September 30, 2026. The Secretary of State's Chapter 351 record now shows the rewrite filed in two parts and in effect: the amendments to Chapters 351-1, 351-2, 351-3, 351-5, 351-6, 351-7, and 351-8, and new Chapter 351-9 were filed October 2, 2026 and took effect October 22, 2026, and the Chapter 351-4 amendments, Rule 351-6-.11 Delivery, and Rule 351-8-.07 Factors for Product Recall were filed October 6, 2026 and took effect October 26, 2026. The Commission's own rules page still lists the package as proposed. The agenda for the Commission's November 4, 2026 meeting included issuing dispensing licenses to production licensees that applied in the October 26 to 30 window.

Unverified The Department of Agriculture has moved docket 02-0107-2601 from negotiated rulemaking to a formal proposed fee rule, published in the October 7, 2026 Administrative Bulletin, that would align the hemp rules with H.772 and H.879 (2026) and set hemp-derived product retailer fees of $100 to apply and $1,000 a year to license. Written comments closed October 28, 2026. As a fee rule it needs approval by the 2027 Legislature before it can take effect; no effective date has been published.

Unverified HB 5784 and SB 20 would further restrict the hemp market beyond the Illinois Hemp Act. Both are pending.

Unverified The Department of Agriculture published a proposal in the August 14, 2026 Illinois Register that would redefine licensed premises so that cultivation centers and craft growers may cultivate outdoors, inside a chain-link fence at least eight feet tall topped with security wire and screened from ordinary public view, with outdoor harvests required to be processed into concentrate. The comment deadline has not been confirmed.

Unverified The Department of Agriculture published proposed amendments to 8 Ill. Adm. Code 1300 in the October 16, 2026 Illinois Register establishing the pre-application, lottery, verification, and application process for the 45 social equity experience lottery infuser licenses that Public Act 104-463 requires by January 1, 2027. The notice sets a 45-day comment period from publication, which runs to about November 30, 2026, and a pre-application window of at least 10 business days with a $2,500 fee; the window dates have not been announced.

Unverified Illinois Healthy Alternatives Association v. Raoul, filed November 5, 2026 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (No. 1:26-cv-13799), asks for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the Hemp Act provisions that took effect November 12, 2026, arguing they discriminate against interstate commerce. In a joint status report filed November 6, 2026 the State agreed not to enforce the Hemp Act against the plaintiffs and the Association's members through November 19, 2026, subject to agreed terms; the court set the State's response for November 13th, the reply for November 17th, and oral argument on the motion for November 19, 2026. The agreement is not a court order and does not pause the law for anyone else.

Unverified Iowa keeps a 4 mg per serving and 10 mg per container hemp standard, roughly 25 times the incoming federal 0.4 mg per container cap. HSB 753 cleared committee in February 2026 but did not become law, so no state date exists.

Unverified The Department of Health notice of intent on consumable hemp registration was published in the Louisiana Register of July 20, 2026, and the comment period closed the same day the notice was published. The docket lists an earliest possible date of adoption of October 18, 2026, which is a floor, not a scheduled date. No adoption notice or effective date has been published.

Unverified The Cannabis Administration submitted proposed amendments to COMAR 14.17 to the General Assembly's Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review Committee on October 24, 2026, covering secured display containers in dispensaries, agent training, the micro dispensary employee cap, and allergen labeling. The Administration anticipates publication in the Maryland Register on November 30, 2026, which would open a 30-day comment period. That date is anticipated, not yet noticed.

Unverified The Cannabis Control Commission's testing regulations and protocols review took written comments through August 25, 2026, with a hearing the same day. The Commission's emergency amendments to the core rules at 935 CMR 500.000 and 501.000 were promulgated September 11, 2026. On September 17, 2026 the Commission opened a third regulatory round of the year under Chapter 65 of the Acts of 2026, covering cannabis testing protocols, medical cannabis licensing, registered agent training, advertising, and delivery; it plans to vote on draft regulations at a December 2026 public meeting, then open public comment with a hearing in early 2027 and a final vote in March 2027. On October 22, 2026 the Commission released draft testing regulations for Independent Testing Labs and the testing of cannabis products and said commissioners would discuss them at the November 12, 2026 public meeting, with public comment opening in January 2027 as part of a larger Chapter 65 comment process. No comment deadline has been published. Two Commission bulletins of October 9, 2026, following its October 8 votes, set out the extension of the pause on new cultivator and non-equity microbusiness applications through June 30, 2027, and the new administrative license extension terms, under which prior extension votes are rescinded December 8, 2026 and no HCA-related extensions issue after November 9, 2027.

Unverified The Cannabis Regulatory Agency's full rewrite of the Marihuana Rules, covering processors, product manufacturing, testing, transportation, labeling, and the statewide monitoring system, has cleared its hearings and written comment and now sits with the legislative committee. The effective date could land on short notice.

Unverified The Office of Cannabis Management has formal rulemaking under way on hemp products. No dates have been published. The office is withdrawing its hemp transition guidance memo effective December 14, 2026.

Unverified Rules implementing HB 2641 have not been proposed. The statute took effect November 12, 2026 for four product categories and takes effect December 11, 2026 for THC beverages and all other hemp-derived cannabinoid products. The Division of Cannabis Regulation has published guidance, not a rule.

Unverified A federal challenge to HB 2641, Mohemp Trade Association v. Kehoe (W.D. Mo. No. 2:26-cv-04170), filed July 16, 2026 by the trade association and two product companies against the Governor, the Attorney General, and the Director of the Department of Health and Senior Services, was dismissed on November 4, 2026. Judge M. Douglas Harpool granted the State's motion to dismiss, finding that the plaintiffs failed to state a due process or vagueness claim, lacked standing to bring their dormant Commerce Clause claim, and that HB 2641 is not preempted by the 2018 Farm Bill; the motion for a preliminary injunction was denied as moot and judgment was entered the same day. No order affects the provisions that took effect November 12, 2026 or those that take effect December 11, 2026. A notice of appeal to the Eighth Circuit would be due within 30 days of the judgment.

Unverified Proposed Department of Agriculture adulterated food regulations would classify any food containing any amount of tetrahydrocannabinols as adulterated or misbranded, a zero THC standard reaching gummies, drops, and beverages. A hearing was held June 18, 2026 and adoption is pending.

Unverified The Medical Cannabis Commission has published no date for the first dispensary licensing window and no random selection date for manufacturing licenses. The Commission now says it will keep the current manufacturer application period open through December 14, 2026; the September 14, 2026 close it had announced after its August 17th vote no longer applies. The Commission held its public hearing on the proposed fee regulations on October 15, 2026 and says it is scheduled to consider the rulemaking package at its November 16, 2026 public meeting, with the regulations taking effect five days after the Governor approves them if the Commission votes to adopt and the Attorney General signs off. The Commission has not noticed the November 16 meeting as one at which the rules will be adopted. No effective date has been published.

Unverified The Cannabis Compliance Board noticed two proposed permanent regulations for a public hearing held October 15, 2026, with written comments that closed October 14, 2026. R103-26 revises licensing and operating provisions, including curbside ordering, signage warnings, flavoring and terpene attestations, and liquid asset requirements. R104-26 carries out Senate Bill 157 by raising the minimum testing sample from 10 grams to 60 grams with retest and retention portions. A third file, R152-24, was added to the same hearing on October 6, 2026: after the Legislative Commission objected on September 24th to the adopted R152-24A, the Board was to consider removing the amendment that would have raised the minimum usable cannabis sample from 10 grams to 20 grams, with written comments that also closed October 14, 2026. The October 15th hearing has been held; the Board's agenda listed all three files for action, but no minutes or disposition have been posted, and seven testing laboratories filed a position paper on October 13th objecting to the unmixed 20-gram test portion in the R104-26 sampling draft. The next Board meeting is December 17, 2026. An effective date follows only when the Board adopts and files the regulations with the Secretary of State. Separately, Senator Lori Rogich requested bill draft BDR 612, revising provisions relating to hemp-derived cannabinoid products, on October 12, 2026 for the 2027 session, the first legislative vehicle to follow the Cannabis Advisory Commission's hemp subcommittee report; no text has been published.

Unverified Senate Bill 12 for the 2027 session was prefiled October 28, 2026 at the request of the Cannabis Compliance Board and referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor. It would extend the Board's substantial hazard and suspension rules to public safety as well as public health, drop the ban on fruit images in cannabis advertising and, from July 1, 2028, bar fruit images on cannabis product packaging except in the producer's logo, let consumption lounges buy from any adult-use cannabis establishment, let cannabis stores with a food exemption sell food that contains no THC or CBD, and give certified Board enforcement agents peace officer powers over crimes involving cannabis, hemp, CBD, or their synthetic equivalents. If enacted, most sections take effect July 1, 2027. No hearing has been scheduled; the session opens February 1, 2027.

Unverified Cannabis Regulatory Commission rules implementing the beverage law have not been proposed. The licensee sales cutoff moved to the federal compliance date, December 11, 2026, or later, when Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed S.4635 on November 12, 2026.

Unverified H328 would conform North Carolina hemp law to a total THC standard, bar sales to anyone under 21, and cap finished hemp-derived cannabinoid products at 0.4 mg total THC per container. It has not been enacted.

Unverified The General Assembly reconvenes Monday, November 16, 2026, at noon under its adjournment resolution (Resolution 2026-6), which lets it take up conference reports for bills whose conferees both chambers appointed by August 6, 2026. H328 qualifies: the Senate adopted its conference report 37 to 6 on July 2, 2026, and the House has not voted. No House vote is scheduled. The report would cap finished hemp-derived cannabinoid products at 0.4 mg total THC per container. The same limits apply when the session resumes November 30 through December 18, 2026.

Unverified A federal judge preliminarily enjoined enforcement of the SB 56 intoxicating hemp ban against ten beverage companies on July 13, 2026 and later declined to stay that order pending appeal. On September 25, 2026 the Sixth Circuit granted Ohio's stay motion in part and narrowed that injunction (No. 26-3648, Doc. 33): as reported by Bloomberg Law and Forbes, the state may not deny approvals to sell based on where a company is located, but the order no longer shields unlicensed sales of hemp-derived products, so companies without a Division of Cannabis Control license face enforcement. The Sixth Circuit heard oral argument on the merits of the appeal on October 22, 2026; no ruling has issued. In the second and broader suit, brought by fourteen more companies against the State and roughly ninety-five county prosecutors, the same judge granted a temporary restraining order on August 7, 2026 and then a preliminary injunction on September 4, 2026 on the same reasoning. On October 7, 2026 (Document 69) he stayed that injunction pending the State's appeal to match the Sixth Circuit order, leaving it in force only against the in-state sourcing requirement, so SB 56's intoxicating hemp restrictions are again enforceable against those fourteen companies except on where their hemp comes from. The district court also entered an order on the State's stay motion in the first case the same day; its text is not yet public. A third preliminary injunction, for a single California company, Fresh Farms E Liquid, was entered September 24, 2026 and narrowed on October 5, 2026 (Document 36) to the in-state sourcing requirement, matching the Sixth Circuit order. On October 14, 2026 the court denied the plaintiffs' motion for reconsideration of that October 7th stay order (Document 72), writing that it still views an injunction limited to the in-state sourcing requirement as an insufficient remedy but that the Sixth Circuit plainly believes otherwise, so the partial stay stands. The ban remains in force as to everyone not covered by a court order.

Unverified The Liquor and Cannabis Commission closed applications on August 28, 2026 for a Rules Advisory Committee on permanent rules that would lift the moratorium on new wholesale licenses, the first step toward reopening a license class frozen since 2022. A rules advisory committee is a pre-proposal phase; a date follows only if a formal proposed rule publishes one.

Unverified Philadelphia Bill No. 260163 was signed by the Mayor on September 15, 2026 and took effect November 12, 2026. Section 9-6703, on permitted sales of intoxicating substances, takes effect only when the Department issues regulations, and no date has been published for that.

Unverified The Cannabis Control Commission's home page lists December 4, 2026 as the date by which all majority owners of adult-use retail applicants must complete NCIC background checks. The Commission's October 7, 2026 email bulletin stated that the alternative evidence period for Social Equity Applicant Status Certification closed October 13, 2026 and that certification was to occur at the October 23, 2026 Commission meeting, which has since been held; the website has not posted either date. The adult-use retail application deadline is November 23, 2026.

Unverified H.3924 would add a chapter regulating hemp-derived consumables, barring chemically derived cannabinoids and setting serving size and product appearance rules. It has not been enacted.

Unverified The Department of Health Office of Medical Cannabis rewrite of Article 44:90 had its public hearing in Pierre on September 23, 2026 and its comment period closed October 3, 2026. The Legislature's Interim Rules Review Committee took the package up October 14, 2026.

Unverified The Department of Agriculture's repeal of its chapters 0080-10-02 and 0080-10-03 on manufacturing, distribution, and retail sale of hemp-derived cannabinoid products, the program the Alcoholic Beverage Commission took over on January 1, 2026, took effect November 10, 2026 (filing 08-11-26, proposed August 12, 2026). The Secretary of State's codified chapters now read Repealed, and the Department has no further hemp-derived cannabinoid filing pending.

Unverified The July 31, 2026 schedules date took effect on time with no stay, making delta-8, delta-10, THCP, and other non-delta-9 isomers Schedule I in Texas. Three plaintiffs filed suit in the Southern District of Texas on July 31st arguing that the 2018 Farm Bill preempts the state rules, and asked for an emergency order halting arrests and seizures. The court declined to issue a temporary restraining order on August 9, 2026, finding the plaintiffs had not shown irreparable harm; their request for a preliminary injunction remains alive, and on October 16, 2026 the court entered an order ruling on a motion to stay that is not available on the public docket, so its effect is not known. A separate challenge to the 2025 consumable hemp rules remains before the Fifteenth Court of Appeals. The court had set the State's appeal of the May 1, 2026 temporary injunction for submission on oral argument on December 8, 2026; its docket now records that submission as cancelled on November 5, 2026, and as of November 8, 2026 lists no replacement date. The trial setting remains vacated. In a separate Travis County state court case challenging enforcement under the undefined trace amount standard, the court denied a temporary restraining order; press reports place the temporary injunction hearing on November 2, 2026 after a reset from October 30; the court's own record does not confirm those dates or show a ruling. A second Travis County suit, filed October 19, 2026 by the Texas Hemp Constitutional Alliance and a Tyler hemp manufacturer and retailer, challenges the March 31, 2026 consumable hemp rules that count THCA toward total delta-9 THC and seeks an injunction; no hearing has been set. The schedules rules remain enforceable in the meantime.

Unverified The four Department of Agriculture and Food filings whose comment periods closed August 14, 2026, covering cannabinoid product processors, hemp cannabinoid product testing, the industrial hemp retailer permit, and cannabinoid product registration and labeling, took effect August 21, 2026. The notice of effective date was published in the September 15, 2026 Utah State Bulletin. The same Bulletin reopened the Quality Assurance Testing rule (R66-3) with a change in proposed rule and proposed a remediation disclosure amendment to the Cannabis Processing rule (R66-2); both comment periods closed October 15, 2026. The R66-3 amendment took effect October 22, 2026; its notice of effective date was published in the November 1, 2026 Bulletin. That Bulletin also proposes a new Specialized Product Retailer License rule (R66-40) under HB 385, covering retailers of cannabinoid, kratom, and tobacco products, with comments closing December 1, 2026. The Home Delivery and Courier filing, whose comment period closed July 31, 2026, still has no notice of effective date.

Unverified The Cannabis Control Board adopted its Procedure Governing Cannabis Event Permits on October 28, 2026 after hearings on October 7th and October 21st and written comments through October 23, 2026. The event permit application window announced November 9, 2026 runs from November 16 to November 30, 2026, and the December 16, 2026 lottery follows. At the same meeting the Board voted to initiate rulemaking on a Retail Siting Rule, which will go to a public hearing and comment period once filed with the Secretary of State, and adopted a policy requiring principals and controllers to hold an employee ID card when working at another establishment, with implementation deferred to the November 18, 2026 meeting. The Act 176 fee changes take effect July 1, 2027.

Unverified The September 1, 2026 hemp registrant good-standing date, set in the enacted budget act, has passed. The February 1, 2027 and May 1, 2027 dates were re-derived from the same enacted chapter text on August 17, 2026, and the rows above no longer describe a lottery or a general 50 percent social equity set-aside, neither of which appears in the act. The Cannabis Control Authority has published no date of its own for the application window, and it has no active filing on the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall.

Unverified The Cannabis Control Authority posted draft adult-use regulations alongside its September 9, 2026 board meeting: five cultivation canopy tiers from 5,000 to 35,000 square feet with outdoor growing allowed only in the first two, a cap of five establishment licenses and one Tier V per person, independent testing laboratories, a first-round lottery for impact licensees, and a mandatory labor peace agreement. The Cannabis Public Health Advisory Council was set to take the draft up in October and finish in December, with publication targeted for January 2027. No formal comment period or hearing has been noticed on the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall.

Unverified The Liquor and Cannabis Board moved both of its draft-rule projects to formal proposals on November 4, 2026, filing CR-102 proposed rules for ESSB 5403 on financial interest agreements (WSR 26-22-116), with comments due December 10, 2026 and a hearing the same day, and for cannabis producer cooperatives under EHB 1941 (WSR 26-22-115), with comments due December 17, 2026 and a hearing the same day. The Board intends to adopt the ESSB 5403 rules no earlier than January 6, 2027, which is not an effective date; an effective date follows adoption.

Unverified The Liquor and Cannabis Board filed a preproposal statement of inquiry (CR-101, WSR 26-21-011) on October 9, 2026 to consider amending chapter 314-55 WAC to create a certification program for licensees engaged in medical cannabis activity, after accepting a rulemaking petition from The Cannabis Alliance on October 7th. A CR-101 opens a rulemaking but proposes no text; a comment deadline and hearing follow at the CR-102 proposal stage.