Hemp Legalization & Regulatory News for Hemp Businesses

OPINION ROWLAND, PRESIDING JUDGE: ¶1 The State of Oklahoma appeals a pretrial order quashing the Information against Appellee Aguilar for insufficient evidence. The State charged Aguilar by Information in the District Court of Kay County, Case No. CF-2020-634, with one count of child neglect in violation of 21 O.S.Supp.2019, § 843.5(C). After being bound over

It would be unfair for a nurse who blamed her husband for having €12,000 worth of drugs in her home were to lose her job, Judge Keenan Johnson told Sligo Circuit Court. He was finalising sentencing in the case of Roseanne Lafferty (44), a native of County Donegal who admitted having €11,946 worth of cannabis

NEW YORK, July 18 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday refused to halt New York City’s crackdown on unlicensed sellers of cannabis, citing public safety concerns. U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken in Manhattan said 27 cannabis sellers whose businesses were shut down were unlikely to succeed on their claim that the closures violated their

For Immediate Release: July 16, 2024 Español Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued warning letters to five companies for illegally selling copycat food products containing delta-8 THC and introducing them into the marketplace in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). The warning

Navigating the New Legal Landscape: The Impact of Loper Bright on Federal Marijuana Rescheduling By Jean Smith-Gonnell and Dascher Pasco The federal rescheduling of marijuana has been a topic of conversation within the marijuana industry since President Biden’s statement requesting that the secretary of health and human services (HHS) and the attorney general (AG) “initiate the administrative process to review

Mr. Cannabis Law is pleased to announce the rebrand of its law firm into LumaLex Law, a full-service law firm serving clients in emerging and highly regulated industries, such as cannabis, psychedelics, alternative health, artificial intelligence (AI), health clinics, ketamine clinics, real estate, technology and more.  LumaLex Law’s Founding Partner Dustin Robinson, Esq. is a South Florida-based attorney, CPA, investment fund

1. Introduction Since 2012, twenty-four states have legalized adult-use recreational cannabis. To varying degrees, state laws allow for the production, distribution, retail sale, and on-site consumption of cannabis in licensed businesses [1].1 In addition, recreational cannabis is decriminalized in the District of Columbia and the territory of Guam. Although legislative provisions vary across these jurisdictions, they

As posted by Michelle Bodian Cannabis and Hemp Attorney at Vicente LLP on Linked In Alabama hemp litigation news Plaintiffs won The Department of Public Health is “permanently enjoined from taking any action to prohibit Alabama companies from manufacturing or selling edible hemp products provided that they comply with the statutory definitions.” The judge concluded

U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Litigation Release No. 25847 / September 25, 2023 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Michael Caridi, No. 1:23-cv-1243 (D. Conn. filed September 20, 2023) SEC Charges Connecticut Resident with Fraudulent Statements in Press Releases The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed charges against Michael Caridi, a resident of Greenwich, Connecticut, and

State laws governing cannabis licensing are at the center of almost a dozen recent federal lawsuits that have divided federal courts. The issue in all 11 suits is whether the US Constitution’s dormant commerce clause applies to state cannabis markets while cannabis is illegal under federal law. The lawsuits pose a novel question about whether the dormant