September 2023

Dentons: Cannabis Legalization in Germany: Official Draft Law Published 

Dentons: Cannabis Legalization in Germany: Official Draft Law Published 

On 16 August 2023, the German federal government agreed on a draft law for a cannabis law (Cannabisgesetz, CanG). In ...
Susan Burns: Legal Implications of Recreational Use Cannabis Legalization for Minnesota Employers

Susan Burns: Legal Implications of Recreational Use Cannabis Legalization for Minnesota Employers

Minnesota legalized adult-use recreational marijuana (statutorily renamed “cannabis”) in 2023. Use and possession of up to two pounds became legal ...
Susan Burns: New Rules for Hemp-Derived Products in Minnesota: What You Need to Know

Susan Burns: New Rules for Hemp-Derived Products in Minnesota: What You Need to Know

Minnesota’s recent amendments to the law that regulates the sale and use of hemp-derived products, such as edibles and beverages, ...
mcglinchey: Cash Transportation for Cannabis-Related Businesses

mcglinchey: Cash Transportation for Cannabis-Related Businesses

While marijuana remains illegal under federal law, most plant-touching businesses are — and will remain for the foreseeable future — ...
It's Time To Regul8: The Need For Delta 8 Regulation

It’s Time To Regul8: The Need For Delta 8 Regulation

AUTHORS Madeline S. Knight and Michael J. Bennett Maddy Knight and Michael Bennett  are currently third year law students at ...
Collateralbase:  Maryland Developments, Licensing, Equity & Finance In Cannabis

Collateralbase: Maryland Developments, Licensing, Equity & Finance In Cannabis

With New York causing a ruckus nearby, Maryland has moved at cannabis speed toward its first adult use licensing round ...
Harris Bricken: Cannabis Brands and China: An Emerging IP Challenge

Harris Bricken: Cannabis Brands and China: An Emerging IP Challenge

Cannabis brands account for a sizeable component of my law firm’s intellectual property work (and, indeed, our work generally). Historically, there has ...
Duane Morris:  Judge Rules that New York’s Discretionary Licensing Process Violates the Law

Duane Morris: Judge Rules that New York’s Discretionary Licensing Process Violates the Law

On August 18, 2023, a New York Supreme Court judge, ruled that the state’s discretionary licensing process violates the law ...
Venable: Right to Reef? The Growing Number of State and Local Laws Addressing Off-Duty Marijuana Use by Employees

Venable: Right to Reef? The Growing Number of State and Local Laws Addressing Off-Duty Marijuana Use by Employees

Few areas of the law have evolved more quickly than the quagmire of federal, state, and local laws governing employee ...
Prince Lobel: Further Delays For New York: Preliminary Injunction Granted Against New York's Conditional Adult Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) Program

Prince Lobel: Further Delays For New York: Preliminary Injunction Granted Against New York’s Conditional Adult Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) Program

A New York court has preliminarily halted the state’s Conditional Adult Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) licensing program. In a decision ...
Bradley:  Court Again Stays Alabama Medical Cannabis Program: The Song Remains the Same

Bradley: Court Again Stays Alabama Medical Cannabis Program: The Song Remains the Same

There is a scene in the fantastic film Wayne’s World (cult classic or blockbuster, I don’t know; I just write blogs about cannabis) where ...
Nevada’s Cannabis Industry Takes Another Step Forward

Nevada’s Cannabis Industry Takes Another Step Forward

Four significant bills that will undoubtedly impact cannabis regulation in Nevada were recently signed into law by Nevada State Governor ...
Troutman Pepper: Cannabis Plain Packaging Rules: Examples and Opportunities

Troutman Pepper: Cannabis Plain Packaging Rules: Examples and Opportunities

Much attention has recently been placed on hemp-derived products marketed in packaging that mimics popular snack foods.[1] ...
mcglinchey: All Eyes on Ohio’s Adult-Use Marijuana Measure Post Issue 1 Defeat

mcglinchey: All Eyes on Ohio’s Adult-Use Marijuana Measure Post Issue 1 Defeat

On August 8, 2023, Ohio voters defeated a proposed amendment to the state’s Constitution that would have required at least ...
Bradley: Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission Awards 24 Licenses, Appeals to Follow

Bradley: Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission Awards 24 Licenses, Appeals to Follow

Last Thursday was License Award Day 2.0 for the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission. The more things change, the more they ...
Harris Bricken: Predictions for Future Federal Cannabis Laws

Harris Bricken: Predictions for Future Federal Cannabis Laws

Most Americans favor federal cannabis legalization. Nearly all Americans support medical cannabis legalization. This is not a new development. It has been that ...
Larkin Hoffman: Navigating the Legalization of Marijuana: Update Your Drug and Alcohol Testing Policies

Larkin Hoffman: Navigating the Legalization of Marijuana: Update Your Drug and Alcohol Testing Policies

On August 1, 2023, recreational marijuana and cannabis products became legal in the state of Minnesota. Employers are now asking ...
Baker McKenzie: Argentina: Medicinal cannabis and industrial hemp Regulation of Law No. 27,669

Baker McKenzie: Argentina: Medicinal cannabis and industrial hemp Regulation of Law No. 27,669

On 7 August 2023, Decree 405/2023 (“Decree“) was published to regulate Law No. 27,669 that states the regulatory framework for ...
Arnold & Porter: Complex Hemp Processes Need Nimble Regulatory Approach

Arnold & Porter: Complex Hemp Processes Need Nimble Regulatory Approach

The 2018 Farm Bill1 legalized hemp and products derived from hemp so long as they contain less than 0.3% Delta-9 THC ...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers: Shoebridge’s National Legalise Cannabis Bill Covers All Grassroots Wants and Concerns

Sydney Criminal Lawyers: Shoebridge’s National Legalise Cannabis Bill Covers All Grassroots Wants and Concerns

After Australia legalised medicinal cannabis nationwide in October 2016, people who use the plant recreationally have been hesitant of political initiatives to ...
Troutman Pepper: California AG Petitions State Court for Order to Seize Assets From an Unlicensed Cannabis Dispensary

Troutman Pepper: California AG Petitions State Court for Order to Seize Assets From an Unlicensed Cannabis Dispensary

California Attorney General (AG) Rob Bonta is asking the Los Angeles County Superior Court to enter a civil forfeiture order ...
CDF Labor Law LLP: New Rules For California Employers Testing for Marijuana Use Are Approaching Fast

CDF Labor Law LLP: New Rules For California Employers Testing for Marijuana Use Are Approaching Fast

California has officially, and for the first time, provided protections for users of recreational marijuana within the employment context. California Assembly ...
Bradley: Alabama Medical Cannabis Update: August 10 Appears to Be the Day

Bradley: Alabama Medical Cannabis Update: August 10 Appears to Be the Day

In a court hearing yesterday in the Montgomery County Circuit Court, it appeared that the staff of the Alabama Medical ...
Prince Lobel: New York's  CAURD Cannabis Program Temporarily Enjoined

Prince Lobel: New York’s CAURD Cannabis Program Temporarily Enjoined

On August 7, 2023, a New York state judge halted the state’s conditional adult use dispensary (“CAURD”) program by issuing ...

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Canada
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Jeff Hergot – Wildboer Dellelce LLP

Costa Rica
Tim Morales – The Cannabis Industry Association Costa Rica

Nicaragua
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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