Cannabis Legalization News Podcast
Cannabis Legalization News explains what changed in cannabis—and what comes next.
Each week, cannabis attorney and dispensary owner Thomas Howard and activist Miguel “Miggy” Santiago connect the laws, court decisions, policy shifts, rights issues, hemp developments and regulated-market realities that matter.
Each episode connects consequential cannabis developments and explains what they mean. Ask Thomas is a forthcoming pilot and will not be represented as an active series until it launches.
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Montana's New Weed Rule: Who Can Actually Run the Store?
Montana is spelling out who must document residency to run a licensed cannabis business—even when that person is not an owner. Its new rule cites the Ninth Circuit, while the wider cannabis-licensing dispute continues.Recorded September...
Is Your Cannabis License Safe? Supreme Court Petition Update
WHO GETS IN? The cannabis licensing fight reaches a new procedural step—not a Supreme Court ruling.Sunday, September 20 at 3:05 PM Central with Thomas Howard and Miggy.A petition asks the Supreme Court whether the dormant Commer...
Legal Loopholes: How a $32 Million Cannabis Contract Dispute Was Dismissed
Curaleaf’s $31.8M Contract Verdict Tossed, Schedule III Can’t Be Enjoined, and Regulators Crack DownThe hosts discuss cannabis legalization and business news, arguing that federal marijuana rescheduling to Schedule III is inevitable and...
HR6500 Hemp Extension, DEA Questionnaires, and Ongoing Patchwork Cannabis Policy
The hosts discuss cannabis still not being federally legalized and preview 10 news stories, led by Trump signing HR6500, a one-month hemp deadline extension that they argue punts major decisions until after the election. They say synthetics...
The DEA Transcript is OUT—But the Arrests Never Stopped
This week on Cannabis Legalization News:The hosts recap cannabis legalization news for the week ending Aug. 30, 2026, highlighting the DEA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and release of 11 days/2,533 pages of rescheduling hearing transc...
DEA Rescheduling Briefs, Hemp Loopholes, and the Push for Federal THC Rules
The hosts discuss developments in the DEA marijuana rescheduling process, noting final briefs were due Monday and the DEA is now arguing marijuana should not remain in Schedule I, acknowledging accepted medical use for pain, anorexia, and chemo...
Hybrid Dispensaries, Schedule III Rescheduling, and the Fight Over THC Hemp Drinks (Week Ending Aug 16, 2026)
Hosts Tom and a co-host discuss cannabis legalization news for the week ending August 16, 2026, focusing on how legalization may unfold over the next 18–60 months and why “hybrid” dispensaries (serving medical and adult-use) could shape tax and...
Senate Votes 61–32 to Keep Hemp Delay in Funding Bill
The Senate voted 61–32 at 2:36 a.m. to preserve a proposed 29-day hemp delay in its pending federal funding bill. That delay is not law: November 12 remains operative unless the House concurs and the President signs.If enacted, the Sena...
NEW HEMP RESCUE BILL JUST DROPPED — Can It Stop the November 12 Ban? 😳
Cannabis Legalization News: Hemp Crackdowns, Schedule III Rescheduling, and New Insurance ProtectionsThe hosts of a cannabis policy, law, and business podcast discuss a week of mostly positive legalization news while warning that a refi...
DEA Rescheduling Hearing Wraps, 280E Refund Fight, and Cannabis Legalization News Roundup
The hosts introduce a weekly cannabis law and policy podcast, promote membership and an emailed news report via QR code, and discuss building AI software to run their dispensary using an MCP server connected to Dutchie’s API. The ma...
The Cannabis Battle Intensifying on Every Front | Virginia, DEA & Massachusetts
The cannabis legalization battle is accelerating on multiple fronts—and every apparent victory is triggering another legal, political, or regulatory fight.Virginia is finally moving from legal adult possession to a regulated retail cann...
Pharmaceutical Companies Fighting Marijuana Rescheduling? Here's Why
DOJ just filed a brief telling the D.C. Circuit to deny the anti-rescheduling stay motion — and the argument is brutal: the drug-testing lobby and cannabinoid pharma challengers are not protecting public health, they are protecting “pocketbook ...
DEA Stacks Hearing Against Cannabis Industry—Here's What Happens Next
Tomorrow morning, the DEA opens one of the biggest cannabis hearings in federal history — and somehow the witness table is packed with prohibitionists while the cannabis industry gets zero seats.This week on Cannabis Legalization News, ...
Supreme Court Gun Rights, DEA Rescheduling Hearing, and Dispensary Updates
On a Father’s Day episode of Cannabis Legalization News, the hosts discuss running their dispensary ahead of an upcoming grand opening, including signage delays, compliance burdens, medical tax differences, pricing pressures, curbside ordering ...
Drug Testing Lobby Sues Over Schedule III as Illinois Signs Major Cannabis Law Changes
On the June 14 (Flag Day) episode of Cannabis Legalization News, the hosts preview a lead story about the National Drug and Alcohol Screening Association suing to pause federal cannabis re...
Trump to Congress: SAVE THE CBD🚨 Illinois Doubles Possession
Trump Signals Support for Full-Spectrum CBD as Dispensary Operators Share Compliance, Illinois Law Changes, and Market UpdatesHosts of Cannabis Legalization News announce a new operator-focused segment and newsletter, discuss a White Ho...
MEMORIAL DAY SHOCK: The Federal War on Cannabis Just Started (DEA Raids, $8.3M Tax Clawbacks)
This week, as the summer starts, the federal government escalated its actions against the cannabis industry on multiple fronts, signaling a new era of enforcement and compliance pressure. We break down the "Federal War" that is separating the l...
Dispensary Inspection Passed + DEA Registration Window, Schedule III, and State Cannabis Updates
The hosts discuss their Illinois dispensary passing its regulatory inspection on the first attempt, share examples of required compliance fixes (signage, plexiglass barriers, door relocation, and added redundant cameras), and describe setti...
DEA’s New Schedule III Portal: Historic Chance or Trap for Medical Marijuana Dispensaries?
Cannabis lawyer Tom Howard explains that a new Justice Department final rule moving medical marijuana to Schedule III did not legalize marijuana broadly but created a DEA registration portal that could make state-licensed medical dispensaries m...
Medical Marijuana Declared Federally Legal: Schedule III Shakeup, 280E Fallout, and Illinois Dispensary Updates
The hosts discuss what they describe as a major bulletin that medical marijuana is now legal nationwide when compliant with state licensing, tying it to a DOJ executive action by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and U.S. treaty obligations ...
DOJ’s Confusing Schedule III Move: Todd Blanche’s Treaty-Based Order Explained
Tom Howard of Cannabis Legalization News analyzes Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s 33-page final order (signed April 22, published April 23) that creates a narrow, treaty-based “Sche...
420 Cannabis Legalization News: IRS Tip Taxes, Rescheduling ‘Slow Walk,’ Illinois Loans Stalled & Hemp Crackdown
On 420 Eve, Tom and co-host discuss cannabis legalization news, arguing the IRS is the main federal agency still enforcing marijuana laws ...
Cannabis Legalization News (April 12, 2026): Texas & Ohio Hemp Rulings, Schedule III Hold-Up, and Virginia Licensing Reality Check
The hosts discuss cannabis legalization news dated April 12, 2026, focusing on a Texas judge granting an injunction affecting hemp/THCA policy ahead of 4/20 and an Ohio judge ruling that Ohio’s hemp restrictions are discriminatory because intox...
April 2026 Cannabis Policy “Shit Show”: Medicare CBD Rollout, Hemp Ban, Georgia Expansion, and State Licensing Frustrations
The hosts recap a chaotic first week of April 2026 cannabis headlines, clarifying their April Fools clickbait about federal legalization and focusing on real developments: a new CMS/Medicare CBD program tied to the Commonwealth Project and ...
