Hemp Legalization & Regulatory News for Hemp Businesses

California cannabis labs for months warned the state’s regulator that growers were pressuring them for favorable results, leading to contaminated products, according to a suit filed Tuesday by the former official responsible for overseeing testing labs, who says she was fired for raising concerns. Filing information at  https://trellis.law/case/24stcv23203/tanisha-bogans-vs-california-department-cannabis-control Private labs and an industry trade group

John Schroyer at GMR has been writing some great pieces over the summer and in this his latest ….. He tells a story about a dispensary in NY whose name is well chosen for all the wrong reasons , “Smacked” .. first by Caurd and now by a law firm.. you have to feel for

NYSBA write As the new practice area of cannabis law grows, Jeffrey Schultz wants the New York State Bar Association’s Cannabis Law Section to flourish as well. Schultz, the new chair of the Cannabis Law Section, said the association has a role to play in keeping attorneys in this expanding and dynamic field informed. “The

Many analytical chemists in the US cannabis industry are fed up. After years of telling state regulators that some laboratories falsify results to please their clients, many cannabis testing laboratories that have been trying to do the right thing are going out of business. Honest labs say they are losing clients to bad actors who

I’ll leave you with his words .. it’s all very self evident what he’s up to. We hear a lot from the current administration about the “rule of law.” But by ignoring legal standards and scientific evidence in its rush to loosen restrictions on marijuana, the Biden-Harris administration is riding roughshod over the rule of

Meanwhile in a story that will get buried with all the excitement over California the work of the legal system ticks on.. Business of Cannabis report In an unexpected win for the embattled US hemp industry, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that an intoxicating hemp-derived products, THC-O, is classified as legal under

Hempwire writes Hemp Trade Association filed a suit in Cole County Circuit Court to stop this ban from taking effect. This comes after the state’s Department of Health and Senior Services issued a memo to food retailers detailing how the ban would be imposed. The association’s attorney, Chuck Hatfield, stated that the memo shed light on what

Before we get to Michelle’s post I just wanted to say that I knew there was a reason I decided to select Michelle as a Global Top 200 cannabis lawyer for 2024-2025. I have a funny felling that this is just the first of many times we’ll be seeing Michelle highlighting important issues over the

Seth Goldberg, Tracy Gallegos and Paul Josephson, Duane Morris partners and team leads of the Cannabis Industry Group, are once again recognized in Cannabis Law Report‘s list of Global Top Lawyers. The list honors cannabis practitioners via the publication’s annual survey of clients and lawyers in the cannabis legal services sector as well as its personal editorial decisions based