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Cannabis law explained by the lawyers who practise it: analysis and commentary from law firms around the world, with the Cannabis Law Journal.
Ohio’s attempt to move federally lawful hemp products into its closed marijuana market has now produced three federal preliminary injunctions and an expedited appeal to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. These cases are…
The phrase “gas station weed” is a lazy insult, not a policy position. It is designed to end the discussion before it even begins, and asks us to picture a questionable product in loud packaging sitting next to the candy, sold by…
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S. net, Inc. The suit, first reported by Law360’s Sam Reisman, alleges that Planet 13 scanned thousands of customers’ government-issued photo IDs at its Las Vegas SuperStore, and that the images were later found for sale on the…
Justin Goldberg, Kirsten Hart, Kendall Murphy, J. Michael Showalter
Having finally gotten that wish, at least one Mississippi dispensary owner is finding out what “federal rules” really means. Not just lower tax bills and easier banking, but also 1970s-vintage security regulations that were…
The Mexican Supreme Court of Justice (Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, “SCJN”) recently issued a relevant decision further defining the scope of authorizations for the recreational self-consumption of cannabis and…
The House has passed a short-term funding bill postponing the federal ban on hemp-derived THC products from November 12th to December 11th. With comprehensive legislation unlikely before the new deadline and competing interests…
In the iconic halftime scene of Friday Night Lights, Coach Gary Gaines (played with a charming ferocity the way only Billy Bob Thornton could muster) looks his team in the eyes and tells them they have exactly “two more quarters…
Every good legal thriller needs a twist, and this one’s a doozy: The DEA — the agency that’s spent over 50 years playing prohibition’s final boss — is now the one arguing marijuana doesn’t belong in Schedule I anymore, while the…
Rescheduling did not just change tax treatment and licensing options for cannabis operators. It also changed the assumptions baked into thousands of existing cannabis contracts.
Brazil’s food and drug regulatory agency Anvisa has initiated administrative proceedings to review advertising regulations for medicines and food products, responding to constitutional challenges…
Cannabis law has never been more contradictory. , federal and state governments often regulate identical products under completely different legal frameworks. Hemp and marijuana can produce the same intoxicating effects, yet…
As I explained in my prior article on this bill, the conference report adopted by the Senate was not a serious hemp-regulation bill. It was a hemp ban. 4-milligram-per-container threshold as controlled substances.
Congress finally has a serious bipartisan alternative to the federal hemp ban scheduled to take effect this November.
The Supreme Court of the United States recently narrowed the reach of a federal firearms law in United States v. S. ___ (2026), holding that the government cannot prosecute an individual under the Gun Control Act for possessing a…
This is the second installment in a series on what 1,446 pages of FOIA-ed IRS cannabis training materials reveal. ” This one is about something the IRS places too much faith in: your cannabis business’s METRC data.
While the medical marijuana rescheduling order made clear that the Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”) would prioritize the review of medical marijuana applications submitted during the first sixty (60) days of the application…
Thailand’s cannabis regulatory framework continues to move away from the broad commercial liberalization that followed decriminalization in 2022. The latest regulatory developments do not amount to a full recriminalization of…
The hearing on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the rescheduling of “marijuana” commenced on June 29, 2026 and will end tomorrow, July 15th. The Government brought two witnesses to the stand on the first day, and then seven…