Duane Morris: D.C. Superior Court Rules In Favor of Plaintiff in Landmark Case—Finds Neighbor’s Cannabis Smoke To Be a Private Nuisance
JUNE 21, 2023 BY MATTHEW J. MCCARTHY The District of Columbia (D.C.) Superior Court has ruled in favor of a homeowner who has long complained that her neighbor’s use of cannabis was to blame for her chronic nausea and other ailments. Josefa Ippolito-Shepherd,...
Harris Bricken: Florida Supreme Court Weighs Adult-Use Cannabis Measure
By Fred Rocafort on June 14, 2023 The Florida Supreme Court will consider the legality of an initiative to get adult-use cannabis legalization on the 2024 ballot. Per Florida law, the state’s attorney general must request an advisory opinion from the Florida...
Dykema: Cannabis Continues to Demonstrate Major Differences Between State and Federal Law
By James Aldrich & Tim Trunzo on June 14, 2023 While more and more states move to legalize various uses of cannabis, a recent decision on an application for U.S. citizenship demonstrates its possession, use, and distribution remain illegal under federal law...
Husch Blackwell: Alternatives to Bankruptcy for Cannabis Companies (Part 1)
By Yuefan Wang & Brent Salmons on June 14, 2023 The problems facing the cannabis industry arising from its ongoing status as a federally illegal enterprise are numerous and well documented: 280E tax burdens, limited access to banking, exclusion from capital...
Littler: Federal Court Holds That Employees Cannot File Private Lawsuits Against Their Employers Under New Jersey Cannabis Law
By Lauren Marcus and Dimitrios Markos on June 12, 2023 In a case of first impression, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey found the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act (“the Act”) does not...Top 200 Cannabis Lawyers
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