July 2021

Marc D Wasserman: Words Matter

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 ...
John Worthington: Drug schedules have been unconstitutional since 1973. 

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 ...
GrayRobinson: The Florida Supreme Court Rejects Florigrown's Constitutional Challenge To The State's Vertical Licensure System For Medical Marijuana

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, ...
California: Ryan's Law SB 311 Fact Sheet

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 ...
Ricardo Costa Macedo: Portugal Details The Rules On The Licensing Of Cannabis Related Activities

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 ...
Tilleke & Gibbins: Cannabis & Hemp Business Guide (Thailand)

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 ...
Peter McCusker - BusinessCann: Is Germany Set To Become Europe’s First Recreational Cannabis Market?

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 ...
Peter McCusker / BusinessCann: UK Government Looks To Remove Hemp and Cannabinoids From Home Office Oversight To Boost Industry’s Growth

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 ...
Impairment Science Inc: Stop Drug Testing Start Impairment Testing

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 ...
Sam Boyd: Cannabis Stocks Aren’t Exactly On Fire

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 ...
Baker & McKenzie: Recent Developments in Cannabis and Hemp Deregulation in Thailand: Exciting Prospects for Cosmetics and Food Industry

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 ...
Collateral Base: Connecticut Legalizes Adult-Use Cannabis

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 ...
Collateral Base: US Supreme Court Justice Issues Statement On Marijuana

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 ...
Bressler Amery & Ross : Florida Supreme Court Rejects Florigrown’s Constitutional Challenge to Florida’s Medical Marijuana Law

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 ...
USA: Trademark Protection for CBD Supplements

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 ...
Smart & Biggar: Federal Court finds Subway’s trademark rights infringed by cannabis retailer that adopted “Budway” parody mark

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, ...
ChimwaMurombe Legal Practice: Zimbabwe - Legal Framework On Industrial Hemp Farming

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 ...
USA: The Delta-8 THC Loophole

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 ...
Jackson Lewis: Connecticut Legalizes Recreational Marijuana

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 ...
Husch Blackwell: Supreme Court Declines To Hear Challenge To IRS Enforcement Of Cannabis Tax Rules

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, ...
Torkin Manes: Medical Cannabis & Cannabinoid Regulation 2021

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 ...
MJ Westerman Law: The Status of Hemp & Delta 8 in TX: As of June the 26th, 2021

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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Author Bios

Canada
Matt Maurer – Minden Gross
Jeff Hergot – Wildboer Dellelce LLP

Costa Rica
Tim Morales – The Cannabis Industry Association Costa Rica

Nicaragua
Elvin Rodríguez Fabilena

USA

General
Julie Godard
Carl L Rowley -Thompson Coburn LLP

Arizona
Jerry Chesler – Chesler Consulting

California
Ian Stewart – Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
Otis Felder – Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
Lance Rogers – Greenspoon Marder – San Diego
Jessica McElfresh -McElfresh Law – San Diego
Tracy Gallegos – Partner – Fox Rothschild

Colorado
Adam Detsky – Knight Nicastro
Dave Rodman – Dave Rodman Law Group
Peter Fendel – CMR Real Estate Network
Nate Reed – CMR Real Estate Network

Florida
Matthew Ginder – Greenspoon Marder
David C. Kotler – Cohen Kotler

Illinois
William Bogot – Fox Rothschild

Massachusetts
Valerio Romano, Attorney – VGR Law Firm, PC

Nevada
Neal Gidvani – Snr Assoc: Greenspoon Marder
Phillip Silvestri – Snr Assoc: Greenspoon Marder

Tracy Gallegos – Associate Fox Rothschild

New Jersey

Matthew G. Miller – MG Miller Intellectual Property Law LLC
Daniel T. McKillop – Scarinci Hollenbeck, LLC

New York
Gregory J. Ryan, Esq. Tesser, Ryan & Rochman, LLP
Tim Nolen Tesser, Ryan & Rochman, LLP
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Oregon
Paul Loney & Kristie Cromwell – Loney Law Group
William Stewart – Half Baked Labs

Pennsylvania
Andrew B. Sacks – Managing Partner Sacks Weston Diamond
William Roark – Principal Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin
Joshua Horn – Partner Fox Rothschild

Washington DC
Teddy Eynon – Partner Fox Rothschild