Aaron Pelley Despite cannabis being fully legalized in nearly half of the US states and counting with several more planning to vote for legalization in the 2024 elections, nearly all states that comprise the industry have been suffering tremendous financial and...
BY AARON PELLEY ● JANUARY 15, 2024 One of the biggest legislative surprises for cannabis reform in 2023 was the recreational legalization of cannabis in Minnesota. On May 30, 2023, House File 100 was signed by Governor Tim Walz, a moderate Democrat who ran very much...
[Note from the editor: This article is about a letter that the DEA sent to the GA Board of Pharmacy that I wrote for the American Journal of Endocannabinoid Medicine. It is reprinted here with permission. You can read the article in its original form by clicking...
25 January 2024 by Daniel T. McKillop and Ronald S. Bienstock Scarinci Hollenbeck LLC Captain Cannabis continues to make a name for himself, with the comic book character now linked with binding trademark precedent. The dispute over the “Captain Cannabis” trademark...
AUTHORS Tyler Beall Sean B. O’Connell Justin Tepe The D.C. Council passed emergency legislation on January 9, 2024, in furtherance of its effort to close the D.C. cannabis industry’s “gray market.” The “gray market” is the cannabis industry that was created when D.C....
By JC Zwisler, Matthew Brekus & Brian Michaelis on January 23, 2024 Republic Technologies (NA) LLC (“Republic”) filed an application to register the proposed mark 4:20 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”). Republic amended its goods twice...