Mastercard sent cease and desist letters to payment processors and banks last week. These letters demanded certain financial service providers to stop allowing marijuana transactions on MasterCard debit cards. What does this mean? This is clearly just another body...
24 July 2023 by Gabriel Bleser and Cédric Bellwald Bonn & Schmitt Despite a policy of repression and prohibition, cannabis is the most used illicit drug in Luxembourg. The bill no. 8033 is introducing the first liberalization of cannabis consumption, with the aim...
A hard lesson was learned after cannabis was discovered in a suitcase at the airport: the government does not have to prove cannabis is marijuana to convict you of trafficking in marijuana. A new case recently clarified that the legal burden shifts and requires the...
CONTRIBUTOR 20 July 2023 by Eric Jesse Eric Jesse, partner in Lowenstein Sandler’s Insurance Recovery Group, discusses some of the challenges faced by businesses in the cannabis industry seeking insurance coverage for claims ranging from theft to product liability; he...
Harris Bricken GRIFFEN THORNE Table of Contents What is a receivership? How is a receiver appointed? What we’ve seen in Oregon recently What to expect for California cannabis receiverships California’s cannabis industry is a mess. Between the rampant illegal...
July 18, 2023 Author Sam Saarsteiner The German Ministry for Health has this month published a draft bill on the subject of cannabis legalisation. The draft legislation is of course a diluted version of the original ambitious plans, which faced opposition at the...