Cannabis & Alternatives — Federal Rescheduling Creates Unintended State-Level Legal Consequences as Industry Faces Simultaneous Regulatory, Environmental, and Securities Pressures

Cannabis & Alternatives · 2026-04-29

Today's developments reveal an industry caught between the promise of federal normalization and the messy realities of implementation. The most consequential story is the possibility that federal marijuana rescheduling may have inadvertently legalized medical cannabis in South Carolina — a signal that the cascade of state-level legal consequences from federal policy shifts is far from predictable…