Karma Koala Podcast 298: Jordan Wellington @ Strategies 64. Their new white paper offers a “one-plant solution” for advancing a unified national cannabis policy and regulatory framework | Cannabis Law Report | Where to buy Skittles Moonrock online
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Great to speak to Jordan about the paper which was published January 21, 2026 and how they are looking to communicate the idea around the US and what they hope to achieve with the paper.
Jordan Wellington is a partner at Strategies 64 based in Denver. He regularly advises government officials, businesses, trade associations, and other organizations around the U.S. and across the globe on the responsible regulation of cannabis. He is also host of S64’s Weed Wonks podcast, which features conversations about timely cannabis policy issues with state cannabis regulators, policymakers, and industry leaders.
Jordan has played a key role in drafting cannabis legislation and regulations in Colorado and other states, and he has served on several public and private sector advisory boards and working groups dedicated to developing sensible cannabis policies. He has co-authored white papers on behalf of cannabis industry organizations regarding cannabis packaging, labeling, and testing policies, and he often appears in the media discussing cannabis policy and business matters. He was included in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® for his work in the area of cannabis law, and he served as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where he taught a class titled, “Regulating Cannabis.”
Prior joining S64, Jordan served as compliance director at Vicente Sederberg LLP, where he helped launch the firm’s regulatory compliance practice. He also co-founded Simplifya, a cannabis regulatory compliance software company.
Previously, Jordan was a legislative staffer in the Colorado House of Representatives, where he shepherded legislation through the General Assembly to implement the state’s voter-approved legalization law, Amendment 64. He was then hired as a senior regulatory analyst for the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division in the state Department of Revenue, where he organized the division’s stakeholder engagement process and drafted many of the state regulations governing retail and medical cannabis.
Here’s an introduction to the paper
A new white paper by the cannabis policy experts at Strategies 64 offers the most detailed and realistic roadmap to date for ending federal cannabis prohibition and the currently bifurcated approach to federal cannabis policy—the separation of marijuana” and “hemp”—and establishing a coherent, viable, national regulatory framework.
“The One-plant Solution: Recommendations for advancing a national unified cannabis policy and federal regulatory framework” is available for free online. It was recently publicly presented and discussed at the second annual Cannabis Policy Institute Symposium at UNLV co-hosted by Strategies 64, and it has since been updated to account for President Donald Trump’s executive order on rescheduling.
The paper explains how the current federal approach to cannabis, which separates “marijuana” and “hemp,” has created a fragmented and unstable policy landscape that rewards loophole chasing, weakens consumer protections, complicates enforcement, and undercuts public health research and data collection. States have worked to fill the void, demonstrating that regulated cannabis systems can work, but contradictions embedded in federal law still result is confusion for regulators, businesses, and consumers alike.
Strategies 64 lays out a “one-plant solution”—a clear and achievable plan for establishing a fair, familiar, and workable regulatory framework that regulates cannabis as one plant, prioritizes public health and safety, and reflects the realities of today’s market. In summary:
- Deschedule botanical cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act and regulate it as one plant through existing federal authorities, aligning it with the nation’s typical approach to product safety for food, dietary supplements, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and adult-restricted products;
- Preserve state autonomy, allowing each state to continue setting its own policies and serving as the primary regulator; and
- Establish national guidelines to support states with clear standards for product safety, youth access prevention, marketing, taxation, and product authentication.
The analysis and policy recommendations in the paper were informed by extensive stakeholder input and feedback from across the marijuana and hemp spaces. Over the course of three months, Strategies 64 conducted more than 80 interviews with federal officials, state regulators, policy experts, advocates, trade association leaders, and business operators, including cultivators, manufacturers, retailers, and testing facility operators, to collect and contemplate their perspectives and gain insight into the on-the-ground realities of governments and businesses.
The paper also highlights the timeliness of its recommended reforms, as Congress just acted in November 2025 to recriminalize most hemp-derived products in November 2026. Paired with Trump’s recent order to reschedule marijuana, the subject of federal cannabis classification is gaining significant attention and a unique sense of urgency among federal officials.
“This plan is designed to be realistic and achievable, leveraging existing regulatory infrastructure and respecting political constraints, while delivering durable, enforceable policy that aligns with current market realities,” said Jordan Wellington, managing partner of Strategies 64. “With marijuana rescheduling and hemp-derived product rules in flux, stakeholders across the spectrum are calling the two-track system confusing and unworkable. Federal leaders should seize this moment to reset U.S. cannabis policy and bring clarity, consistency, and a public safety focus to the U.S. cannabis market.”
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