Hemp Legalization & Regulatory News for Hemp Businesses

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Foley Hoag LLP advised The Cannabist Company Holdings (f/k/a Columbia Care), an experienced cultivator, manufacturer and provider of cannabis products and related services, in a $105 million transaction with Verano Holdings Corp. The deal involves one cultivation and production facility in Virginia and one cultivation facility, one production facility and two dispensaries in Arizona. The
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Posted to Linked in by Neil M. Willner- Co-chair, Cannabis Group at Royer Cooper Cohen Braun He writes In the BioGen v. Sarah Huckabee Sanders hashtag#hemp litigation (now on appeal in the 8th Circuit), the Arkansas AG’ office filed a letter, apprising the court about recent district court rulings rejecting preemption challenges to state hashtag#hemp
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The wait for Ohioans, who voted to legalize buying recreational marijuana, will soon be over. According to a statement from the Ohio Department of Commerce, recreational sales of marijuana will begin on Tuesday, Aug. 6. “We intend to issue the first set of non-medical licenses on Tuesday,” the department said. “There will be no sales
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Here’s what the firm says I help clients navigate complex cannabis regulatory infrastructures to ensure their specific business goals are compliant with governing rules. As a partner and Co-Chair of Foley Hoag’s national Cannabis Group, Mike McQueeny has provided trusted counsel to startups and multi-state operators alike on issues associated with legislative/regulatory development and compliance.
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The Rise of the Weed Insanity Defense – WeedSanity! The “cannabis made me do it” defense, once a bizarre footnote in legal history, is gaining alarming traction in courtrooms across the globe. When Bryn Spejcher, a California woman, successfully used “transient psychosis” as her get-out-of-jail-free card after brutally stabbing her boyfriend 108 times, it set
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Stiiizy settled a lawsuit filed this year by a former in-house lawyer. A vehicle controlled by Eric Lightman sued the company, California’s best-selling brand and one of its largest retailers, alleging fraud and other charges. Stiiizy president Tak Sato declined… Read story paywall https://www.weedweek.com/stories/scoop-stiiizy-settled-fraud-suit-with-former-in-house-lawyer/
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Recreational cannabis sales are nearing reality in Ohio. The Ohio Division of Cannabis Control (DCC) has issued dozens of the state’s first dual certificates of operation for marijuana growers, processors and testing labs in recent weeks. This is so the facilities can begin working with both medical and recreational marijuana. Full story: https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/ohio/recreational-weed-could-roll-out-ohio-any-day-now/95-6296f0ca-db02-46f2-b5aa-52eb57d12d17 — At
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The New Jersey Monitor reports A federal judge won’t decide whether New Jersey police officers can consume cannabis off duty until after a series of state legal battles reach their conclusion — if he rules on the matter at all. Judge Julien Xavier Neals on Friday declined Jersey City’s request to declare that federal gun law barring