Weed News Roundup

GLASSHOUSE RAID – California’s cannabis producer Glasshouse found itself in the national spotlight when federal law enforcement agencies raided a production facility. On July 10, Drug Enforcement and ICE raided grow warehouses in Camarillo and Carpinteria, located in California’s Central Valley. Agents served immigration and naturalization warrants, resulting in 360 arrests, 14 children taken into custody, and one worker who died trying to avoid the agents.

Footage of the raids are brutal. Smoke bombs, flash grenades, and rubber bullets are used against the crowds that quickly gathered. One of the demonstrators is seen firing a pistol at the agents, as others threw rocks. At least two undocumented workers were deported.

Glasshouse hasn’t said much, aside from denying the government’s assertions that the 14 children were working there illegally. (Glasshouse also grows vegetables, and the law does allow workers as young as 12 in agriculture.)

MJBizdaily.com has a great piece explaining both who Glasshouse is (the self-proclaimed largest licensed producer in California, known for offering 1/8ths for 9.99, including tax), and talk in some circles that they are diverting some of their products illegally to other markets.

CANNABIS RESCHEDULING UPDATE – Those waiting for action on the rescheduling of cannabis should go ahead and get comfortable, because it’s not looking to happen anytime soon. That was underscored when John Mulrooney, the DEA Administrative Judge who has overseen cannabis rescheduling, announced his retirement.

As Marijuana Moment explains, Mulrooney said after he retires on Aug. 1, “My retirement will leave the DEA with no Administrative Law Judge to hear this matter or any of the Agency’s other pending administrative enforcement cases.” Super. That’s great.

Until another judge is found, the decision-making power to deschedule, reschedule or just leave cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug falls to the new head of the DEA, Terrance Cole. Per Marijuana Moment “…while Cole has said that examining the rescheduling proposal would be “one of my first priorities,” he has refused to say what he wants the result to be and has in the past made comments expressing concerns about the health effects of cannabis.” Those concerns include cannabis as a factor in teen suicide, so yeah, it’s not looking great.

While there has never been a great deal of hope cannabis would be fully descheduled, a rescheduling to Schedule 2 or 3 would open up massive opportunities for both businesses and researchers.

But the entire process has been plagued by delays and accusations of wrongdoing by the DEA. Which sounds rather feasible, considering those accusations are coming not only from pro rescheduling advocates, but also Judge Mulrooney himself. He paused the rescheduling case over six months ago, so it wasn’t a speeding train prior to his retirement announcement.

OREGON HEMP IS THC RICH – A recent study by the State of Oregon reveals that a number of products marketed as being hemp derived and with no more than the federal legal limit of .3% THC actually did have more THC than that. In some cases, 10,000 times that amount.

The report from the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission looks at the potency, labeling and underage sale violations of hemp flower and edibles, with some of those sales being online. Proponents of hemp flower and edibles tout the value of products high in cannabinoids other than THC, such as CBD, CBN and new it girl, CBG. So long as they maintain .3% or less THC, they are legal to ship and use nationwide (some exceptions apply), and those adverse to the psychoactive effects of THC can enjoy the benefits of those cannabinoids. Truth!

But the OLCC collected and tested 151 samples of flower and hemp edibles, and released some key findings that may explain why your Aunt Bertha was hiiiiiiiiigh af off that hemp gummy.

Every flower tested had more than .3% THC, in some 30%+, 72% of the edibles had more than .3% THC, that “91% of online hemp edible(s).87% of hemp flower purchases were completed without adequate age verification,” and “Only 10% of hemp edibles had clear potency labeling linked to verifiable test results.” There were also concerns about edibles “marketed to minors.”

Online weed sales are sketchy. Shop local.

This article appears in Source Weekly August 7, 2025.