A long-standing gap in American drug law was finally closed in November 2025, in a move campaigners have hailed as one of the most significant public health developments in years. As part of a federal funding package passed that month, ending a government shutdown, lawmakers inserted language that shut down the so-called hemp loophole once and for all. The Agriculture,...

A well-funded push to put cannabis on Idaho's November ballot has collapsed, and the reason is worth sitting with. Voters did not defeat it at the polls. It never reached them. A campaign that spent roughly $2.7 million could not clear the legal bar to qualify. A citizen effort on a different issue cleared that same bar the very same week.