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2024-11-13 | In one of the first regional court appeal decisions, the Landshut Regional Court has classified the commercial trade in cannabis cuttings as a criminal offense, lawyer Kai-Friedrich Niermann reports on  LinkedIn. The court justified this with the legislator’s aim of preventing the “socially harmful” trade in this “risky drug”. Niermann described the decision as interest-driven and indefensible. He

Tuesday, November 19, 2024 CASE ASSIGNED to the Honorable Elaine E. Bucklo. Designated as Magistrate Judge the Honorable Keri L. Holleb Hotaling. Case assignment: Random assignment. (Civil Category 1). (dec, ) CLERK’S NOTICE: Pursuant to Local Rule 73.1(b), a United States Magistrate Judge of this court is available to conduct all proceedings in this civil

GMR This latest lawsuit accuses certain board members and executives of failing in their fiduciary duties. Fallout from the inflated monthly average user (MAU) metric continues to hang over cannabis mapping website WM Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: MAPS), which operates as Weedmaps. The company found itself in hot water when it was disclosed that the numbers

Marijuana Moment A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) judge is inviting the prohibitionist group Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) to explain recent allegations that it was involved in “unlawful” communications with the agency as it considered the Biden administration’s cannabis rescheduling proposal. Separately, the judge has denied a request from a cannabis and psychedelics researcher to postpone an

Avextra Portugal launches an innovative in-house breeding program to develop proprietary cannabis varieties with specific, consistent and reproducible cannabinoid and terpene profiles. Over a two-year period, a total of 5,000 seeds will be used for a comprehensive phenohunt of the Avextra cultivar. So far, 600 seeds have been utilised in the process. Led by industry

This means that Cannabis retailers, processors, and labs must have a signed Labor Peace Agreement (LPA) with a bona fide labor organization to renew or obtain a new license. Renewals and applications submitted before December 5 are exempt, but anything submitted after will require an LPA. It’s important to note that Ballot Measure 119 isn’t the only

Header Image: U.S. District Judge Gregory Williams WILMINGTON, Del. — A federal judge in Delaware on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee against social media giant Meta over advertisements using his name and image to sell CBD products. Huckabee, a Baptist minister and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S.

Declaration of competing interest Prof. Fischer has held research grants and contracts in the areas of psychoactive substance use, health and policy from public funding, philanthropic and government organizations (i.e., public-only and strictly no commercial or for-profit sources).

German Cannabis Business Association Bundestag: Legal Affairs Committee discusses extension of investigative powers 2024-11-06 | The CDU/CSU parliamentary group’s  motion was prompted, among other things, by the apparently unexpected consequences of the new Cannabis Act for criminal prosecution. Since the law came into force, courts no longer consider certain evidence, in particular chat messages from the provider Encrochat, to be

A Houston defense attorney and two other people were arrested on Wednesday on charges they participated in a scheme to smuggle drug-laced papers into the Harris County jail. Hunter Hays Simmons, 39, was arrested at his downtown Houston apartment around 7:30 a.m. State records show he has been a licensed attorney since 2013. Tanisha D.