July 2021

Marc D Wasserman: Words Matter
It’s 2021 and Cannabis is still NOT completely legal. People are still being arrested. The time for this to change ...
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John Worthington: Drug schedules have been unconstitutional since 1973.
In most states. the state could not just permanently set and forget drug schedules without delegating law making authority to ...
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GrayRobinson: The Florida Supreme Court Rejects Florigrown’s Constitutional Challenge To The State’s Vertical Licensure System For Medical Marijuana
GrayRobinson The High Court Quashes Lower Court Rulings Against the Existing Statutory Framework By Richard M. Blau, Esq.,Chairman Robyn Vines, ...
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California: Ryan’s Law SB 311 Fact Sheet
Senate Bill 311 would require that hospitals and certain types of healthcare facilities in the State of California allow a ...
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Ricardo Costa Macedo: Portugal Details The Rules On The Licensing Of Cannabis Related Activities
The recently published Ordinance No. 83/2021, which came into force on 16 April, details the requirements and procedures for obtaining ...
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Tilleke & Gibbins: Cannabis & Hemp Business Guide (Thailand)
Cannabis (also known as marijuana) and hemp have been classified as a category 5 narcotic under the Narcotics Act since ...
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Peter McCusker – BusinessCann: Is Germany Set To Become Europe’s First Recreational Cannabis Market?
A Green surge in Germany is opening up the possibility it could be the first European country to fully embrace ...
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Peter McCusker / BusinessCann: UK Government Looks To Remove Hemp and Cannabinoids From Home Office Oversight To Boost Industry’s Growth
Good news for UK hemp and cannabis with the unveiling of proposals which could free the industry from the regulatory ...
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Impairment Science Inc: Stop Drug Testing Start Impairment Testing
The occupational safety issue is not cannabis, alcohol, or other drug use itself, but whether employees show evidence of cognitive ...
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Sam Boyd: Cannabis Stocks Aren’t Exactly On Fire
Market analysts have been predicting that the legal cannabis industry has been ‘about to blow up’ for what seems like ...
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Baker & McKenzie: Recent Developments in Cannabis and Hemp Deregulation in Thailand: Exciting Prospects for Cosmetics and Food Industry
Since the amendment of the Thai Narcotics Act allowing the use of cannabis for medical purposes for the first time ...
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Collateral Base: Connecticut Legalizes Adult-Use Cannabis
On June 22nd, 2021, after a hard-fought battle, Connecticut’s governor finally decided to sign Senate Bill 1201, which legalized adult-use ...
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Collateral Base: US Supreme Court Justice Issues Statement On Marijuana
After the Court denied a review of a Colorado case which dealt with a medical marijuana dispensary and a challenge ...
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Bressler Amery & Ross : Florida Supreme Court Rejects Florigrown’s Constitutional Challenge to Florida’s Medical Marijuana Law
On May 27, 2021, the Florida Supreme Court issued an opinion addressing several constitutional challenges to Florida’s medical marijuana law ...
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USA: Trademark Protection for CBD Supplements
There are over 2,000 pending federal trademark applications for supplements containing cannabidiol (“CBD”). None of these applications is likely to proceed ...
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Smart & Biggar: Federal Court finds Subway’s trademark rights infringed by cannabis retailer that adopted “Budway” parody mark
Earlier this month, the Federal Court issued its decision in Subway IP LLC v Budway, Cannabis & Wellness Store, 2021 FC 583, ...
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ChimwaMurombe Legal Practice: Zimbabwe – Legal Framework On Industrial Hemp Farming
This paper will focus on some of the most critical aspects involved in the production and disposal of hemp particularly ...
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USA: The Delta-8 THC Loophole
Under the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (the “2018 Farm Bill”), cannabis products derived from hemp are federally legal to ...
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Jackson Lewis: Connecticut Legalizes Recreational Marijuana
Connecticut will permit individuals 21 years of age and older to possess and use recreational cannabis. Individuals cannot possess more ...
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Husch Blackwell: Supreme Court Declines To Hear Challenge To IRS Enforcement Of Cannabis Tax Rules
On June 21, 2021, the U. S. Supreme Court declined to hear Eric D. Speidell, et al., Petitioners v. United States, ...
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Torkin Manes: Medical Cannabis & Cannabinoid Regulation 2021
There are both federal and provincial/territorial laws and regulations that govern the cannabis industry in Canada. In some instances, there ...
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MJ Westerman Law: The Status of Hemp & Delta 8 in TX: As of June the 26th, 2021
At the moment smokable hemp is not banned as far as available information supports. Movement began last year when the ...
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