
Two Pollsters, Six Weeks Apart, Disagree by 16 Points on Whether Massachusetts Will Ban Its Own Cannabis Stores.
UNH has Question 8 losing 71-24. UMass Amherst had it 55-33 in August. The measure needs a simple majority on November 3, and the side trying to close a $1.65 billion market is outspending the side defending it two to one.

A Paint Stripper Turned Up in 49 Colorado Vapes. The Testing Rule That Would Have Caught It Was Due in July.
StayCon, doing business as Craft, pulled Maui Wowie and Grape Gorilla cartridges after a private Denver lab found methylene chloride. The Marijuana Enforcement Division has still not warned consumers, and says it does not comment on investigations.

Two-Thirds of Missouri's Cannabis Operators Told the DEA No. Their Own Lawyers Disagree About Whether That Was Smart.
Only about a third of MoCannTrade's 90-plus members applied for federal registration, none have been approved, and Treasury still has not said whether registering is what buys you out of Section 280E. Missouri is the control group.

Nine Insurance Trade Groups Just Told Congress They Want to Cover Cannabis. The Bill Has Failed Before.
The CLAIM Act would not require a single carrier to write a cannabis policy. It would only lift the federal risk that keeps admitted insurers out, leaving operators in the excess-and-surplus market where one fire still ends a business.

Three Days Before He Lost in the Nebraska Supreme Court, Mike Hilgers Subpoenaed a Dispensary in Colorado.
Peak Dispensary sits on Railroad Street in Sedgwick, a half-hour from the state line. Nebraska's attorney general wants the home addresses of everyone who has ever worked there, and has not said which law he thinks was broken.