Hemp Cultivation, Processing & Extraction News

Attorneys general from 20 states and Washington, D.C. are asking congressional leaders to take action on intoxicating hemp products that became legal through the 2018 Farm Bill. Federal lawmakers should amend the definition of hemp, they wrote in a letter sent on Wednesday, and clarify that states can take their own measures to regulate the

In a legal saga filled with accusations of deception and unjustified demands, Vicente LLP, a Boston-based cannabis law firm, is taking on Prime Headhunting and Recruiting Inc. over a contentious placement fee demand. Vicente LLP filed the complaint Monday in Suffolk County Superior Court, claiming that Prime Headhunting is seeking a hefty $137,500 fee for a failed

One has to snigger just a touch ! NJ.com In a lawsuit filed in the Middlesex County Superior Court last month, seven local citizens and a cannabis victims group are challenging Highland Park’s ordinances and resolutions that permit licensed cannabis businesses to operate within the town’s borders. The group argues the borough council’s legal weed

Los Angeles, CAGlass House Brands Inc. was slapped with a proposed class action lawsuit last month, alleging California labor law violations. A former worker accuses the major California marijuana producer of engaging in a systematic pattern of wage violations, including unpaid overtime and unrealistic workloads. The lawsuit, filed February 20 in Los Angeles County Superior Court

Lots of blah.. basically. Plus Ca Change! Media event date: 11 March 2024 Assistant Minister the Hon Emma McBride MP will lead Australia’s delegation to the High-Level Segment of the 67th session for the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND). The session will be held in Vienna, Austria from 14 –15 March 2024. Assistant

The Court of Cassation has upheld a September 2022 State Security Court (SSC) ruling sentencing a man to five years in prison after convicting him of possessing illegal narcotics in Aqaba in January 2022. The court declared the defendant guilty of possessing Hashish at his house on January 31. The SSC handed the defendant a

MJ Biz Canadian cannabis firm BZAM, which merged with The Green Organic Dutchman in 2022, has been granted creditor protection to restructure the business and pursue a sale process. The Ontario Superior Court of Justice granted the request for creditor protection for BZAM and its Canadian subsidiaries under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), the Pitt

A man who pleaded guilty to second-degree unintentional murder for the shooting death of another man last spring will be spending time behind bars. Jordan Deontre McFarland, 18, has been sentenced to 128 months (10 years and 8 months) for the shooting death of 27-year-old Derrell Deshawn Freeman in May 2023. He was also given

The long saga that is Covalent Collective and Doyen Elements has come to some sort of an end – finally. Geoff Thompson, the person behind the scheme, was sentenced to 33 months in prison and three years of supervision once released. Despite settling with the SEC in 2020 for past bad behavior, in December 2021,

March 6 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court panel on Wednesday seemed poised to ask New Jersey’s top court to decide whether a state law barring employment discrimination against cannabis users gives workers the ability to sue for violations in a case involving Walmart. A three-judge 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in Philadelphia