The industry spent 20 years fighting for legalization. Now it has to survive regulation.

Courts, regulators and Congress are quietly deciding what the cannabis industry looks like for the next decade.

Cannabis Has Entered Its Litigation Era

For twenty years, cannabis reform followed a predictable script: legalization campaigns, ballot initiatives, state legislation, public opinion. Win hearts, win votes, win markets.

That script is being torn up.

The biggest cannabis stories this week aren’t about new states legalizing or new markets opening. They’re ab…