The graph depicts the stock price performance of baskets of stocks in six different cannabis industry subsectors. Each basket consists of the top four or five U.S. companies in each group. The stocks in each basket are equally weighted, and the basket prices are indexed so that August 25, 2023 (the Friday before the HHS announcement) equals 100.

Hundreds of articles (our own included) have analyzed the critical benefits of 280e removal, and, as expected, MSO prices have traded over 2x pre-HHS levels since the beginning of the year. We remain surprised that neither the PR Newswire leak of the DEA intentions nor...