June 2026
Susan Burns: Cannabis and Hemp in Minnesota: A Practitioner’s Analysis of the 2026 Omnibus Market Architecture, Hemp Integration, and the Structural Changes Operators Need to Understand
Minnesota’s 2026 Cannabis Omnibus does not simply amend the rules — it sets the architecture of a market. Who enters, ...
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RN Collins: Separation-of-Powers Issues in State Cannabis Authorities – Legislative Brief Series
State cannabis regulatory agencies occupy an unusual position in the constitutional architecture of state government: they exercise legislative, executive, and ...
RN Collins (Series 2) No.13: Tribal Sovereignty and Psychedelic Regulation: Indian Country Jurisdiction, Tribal-State Compacts, and the Limits of State Licensing Frameworks
As Oregon, Colorado, and New Mexico develop regulatory frameworks for supervised psilocybin services, a fundamental jurisdictional question has gone almost ...
Rod Kight: DEA Just Listed HHC in Schedule I. I Still Think the Statute Matters.
The DEA has now done what many in the hemp industry feared it would: it specifically listed hexahydrocannabinol, or HHC, in ...
Ogletree Deakins: New Jersey’s Appellate Court Rules on Who Can Sue for Cannabis Law Violations
On May 26, 2026, the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, held for the first time that applicants and ...
FieldFisher: Medicinal cannabis and mental health: what a coroner’s findings mean for prescribing clinics
The inquest into the death of Oliver Robinson, a patient with complex mental health issues who was being prescribed medical ...
Foley Hoag: Cannabis Rescheduling and the Path to U.S. Exchange Listings: What Management Teams Need to Know Now
For cannabis company executives and their legal advisors, these developments raise urgent questions about whether Nasdaq and the NYSE will ...
Bradley: Guns and Ganja: What Rescheduling Means for Firearm Purchases
Loyal readers of Budding Trends are well aware of marijuana rescheduling, but we offer the following for those who may be coming ...
Harris Sliwoski: How to Acquire a Minnesota Cannabis License
The Minnesota cannabis program is online and rolling out slowly. Too slowly, in this writer’s humble opinion. That said, a ...
Squire Patton Boggs: Can Cannabis Companies File Bankruptcy? The New Chapter 15 Roadmap
Have the doors to U.S. Bankruptcy courts finally swung open to cannabis companies? Perhaps, but still in only very limited circumstances involving ...
Harris Sliwoski: Article – How To Acquire An Oregon Cannabis License
It’s been a while since we wrote a “brass tacks” post on Oregon cannabis licensing. This blog post will cover ...
McAfee & Taft: Gavel to Gavel: Amended medical marijuana law prompts Oklahoma employers to update policies
Oklahoma employers are again directing their attention to drug testing policies after another round of changes to the Oklahoma Medical ...
Bradley: Why Next FDA Commissioner Will Have Historically Consequential Role in Cannabis and Psychedelic Policy
Dr. Marty Makary resigned as FDA commissioner last week, barely a year after his Senate confirmation. HHS Secretary Robert F ...
Foley Hoag: NLRB Rules that Post-Harvest Workers are Covered by Federal Labor Law
As we previously blogged, the line between “agricultural” work and “processing” work in the cannabis industry has real consequences for whether ...
Akerman: Rescheduled but Not Listed: The Outlook for U.S. Cannabis Companies on Major Exchanges
On April 23, 2026, the Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration issued an order placing FDA-approved marijuana products ...
Marshall Dennehey: Marijuana Reclassified: Preliminary Impacts on Homeowners Coverage Issues
On April 23, 2026, the United States Department of Justice and Drug Enforcement Administration announced an order reclassifying certain marijuana ...
Bradley: Schedule III and the Workplace: How Marijuana Rescheduling Could Reshape Employment Law
On April 22, 2026, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a final order immediately placing both FDA-approved marijuana products and state-regulated medical ...
Phelps: Banks Could See New Opportunities If Marijuana Moves to Schedule III
Marijuana’s proposed move from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act has renewed focus on what rescheduling ...