By Raymond Lahoud July 27, 2022 As of July 2022, 38 states have legalized the medical use of cannabis to differing degrees. Each jurisdiction has its own criteria regarding what conditions cannabis can be prescribed for, in what amounts, and the process for issuing...
Disturbing Trend: Hemp Landlords Increasingly Subjected to Criminal Prosecution July 21, 2022 By Kevin Jacoby Oregon, Hemp, Litigation In my last post regarding the rise of civil asset forfeiture in Oregon’s ongoing war on cannabis, I noted some commonalities...
D.C. Will Protect Employees Who Use Recreational Cannabis Royce DuBiner, Kate Hardey, John Thomas Jr., Farnaz Thompson McGuireWoods LLP On July 13, 2022, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser signed new employment protections into law. Although currently unfunded,...
19 July 2022 by Aparna Sridharan Ikigai Law In this post, we unpack the regulatory compliances a medicinal hemp product has to go through. Introduction In our last post1 we spoke about the history, science and the regulator’s take on cannabis. In this installment on...
Decoupling of Section 280E from State Tax Codes Kevin Erb, Steven Levine, Robert Romashko Husch Blackwell LLP On May 18, 2022, in a 153-2 vote, the Massachusetts House of Representatives voted to amend the state’s tax code to provide income tax relief for...
By Robert Szyba & Sydney Jenkins July 18, 2022 One might think that the recent uptick in the legalization of recreational marijuana usage would correlate with a decline in the arrests and seizures related to the leafy-green. According to recent data from the Drug...