After a recent exposé by NY Cannabis Insider found conflicts between the actual and advertised levels of THC in several strains of legal recreational cannabis available for sale, the state of New York has changed testing guidelines – seemingly in an attempt to ward...
Author: Simon Malinowski Here comes more New York cannabis program litigation. After one lawsuit halted a significant portion of New York Conditional Adult Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) program, a new lawsuit filed on March 16, 2023 by the Coalition for Access to...
Tyrus Jackson, Michael McQueeny Foley Hoag LLP – Cannabis and the Law The only guarantees in life are death, taxes, and cannabis lawsuits, and New York is no different. In a cannabis marketplace plagued by fits and starts, the New York Cannabis Control Board (“CCB”)...
Ashley Eley Cannady, J. Russell Dumas ………Balch & Bingham LLP With the first legal sales of medical cannabis recently occurring in Mississippi, employers should again take time to review (or familiarize) themselves with how Mississippi’s recent action in legalizing...
Harris Bricken Federal law prohibits marijuana users from owning or possessing firearms– even in states with legal marijuana. Over the last few months, different federal courts issued critical orders in cannabis gun rights cases which could challenge this status quo....
Last week, the Oregon Court of Appeals issued its decision in a civil forfeiture case out of Yamhill County, which is the first appellate guidance on the application of Oregon’s civil forfeiture laws since voters passed Ballot Measure 3 in 2000. The Court of Appeals...