Purple Haze: LPA Mandate Poised to Continue Causing Confusion and Chaos for California Cannabis Licensees Elliot Fink, Jennifer Mora Seyfarth Shaw LLP It is not often that the government has the opportunity to regulate and oversee an entirely brand new market;...
Impacts of Cannabis Rescheduling on Bankruptcy Heidi Urness McGlinchey Stafford This article was co-authored with Joel E. Cohen, Stout. Despite the excitement of many over rescheduling cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III, the move does not make cannabis “legal”...
Established in March this by the Premier and Finance Committee, the NSW parliamentary inquiry into the state’s regulatory framework for cannabis has as a chief concern whether to decriminalise the widely recreationally used, yet still illegal, psychoactive plant. Yet,...
Author: Susan Burns In May, Representative Mary Miller of Illinois introduced an amendment to the 2024 Farm Bill (co-sponsored by California’s Representative Doug LaMalfa). In one fell swoop, the nascent hemp industry was thrown on the chopping block: hung, drawn, and...
Author: Alex Timbas Assisted by Robert Hoban Intro Regulation of medical cannabis in the United States has always been a racial, moral, and political crusade, rather than a concerted effort to encourage and protect public health and safety, rooted in scientific...
Author: Peter Homberg On 8 July 2024, the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft – „BMEL”) published a draft law on the liberalization of the cultivation and handling of industrial hemp (German...