Hemp Legalization & Regulatory News for Hemp Businesses

Dallas Morning News A man arrested during Allen police’s hemp shop raids in August filed a lawsuit this week, seeking a federal court’s protection to do business in the city. Sabhie Khan, 70, was one of six people arrested in late August, when Allen police raided nine hemp shops in the city, accusing them of selling hemp-based

MJ Biz Eight licensed marijuana companies in New Mexico claim in a federal lawsuit that Border Patrol agents violated their constitutional rights when they seized more than $1 million worth of “state-legal cannabis products, cash, and other property” at interior checkpoints, court records show. The lawsuit was filed this week against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Stamford Advocate A judge on Tuesday appointed a mediator in the long-running dispute over who gets licenses to grow and sell medical marijuana in Alabama. Montgomery Circuit Judge James Anderson named retired Circuit Judge Eugene Reese to act as mediator in the case. Anderson wrote that he believed the use of mediation “is appropriate in

Marijuana-related arrests far outpace arrests for other drug-related violations in jurisdictions where its possession and use remains illegal. In three states (Iowa, Louisiana, and Nebraska), more than half of all drug-related arrests reported by local law enforcement agencies were cannabis-related, according to data provided by the FBI for the year 2023. In ten other states (Alabama, Idaho,

A case involving a trucker who, despite scrupulously avoiding drugs for his entire career, tried CBD oil for severe pain following an accident. The product was advertised as 0% THC, which would not cause a positive test for the drug. But it wasn’t, and he failed a random drug test and was fired. This case

Search strategy and data sources This systematic review was guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) Statement (Page et al. 2021). Studies were identified by searching four electronic databases: MEDLINE (Ovid), EMBASE (Ovid), PsycINFO (EBSCOhost), and Transport Research International Documentation. All databases were initially searched from their inception dates until May

Pages:  1–18 Publisher:  Policy Press Volume/Issue:  Early View DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/03055736Y2024D000000051 Abstract Ten years after Uruguay legalised cannabis, the country’s experience provides valuable insights regarding the implementation of such a policy. Uruguay’s regulation of cannabis represented an innovative policy based on a state-controlled model that yielded both expected and unexpected effects. To study these effects, we employed

The sooner this election is over the better although of course things could just get a lot worse. Marijuana Moment Ten Republican governors are arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court that the “flexibility” states have generally been afforded to legalize marijuana in spite of federal prohibition is an example of why they should also have

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in the case of a truck driver who was fired from his job after a wellness product marketed as free of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana,  caused him to fail a routine drug test. Douglas Horn sued the maker of the CBD product he took for

Header Image: Superior Court Judge Stephen I. Goorvitch Marijuana Moment An industry effort to halt California’s enforcement of new emergency regulations banning consumable hemp products fell short on Friday, with a state judge denying a request for a temporary restraining order. The court said that petitioners—including the trade group U.S. Hemp Roundtable, Cheech and Chong’s