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BOLO: Cannabis PPP Loan Audits

By Hilary Bricken, Attorney at Husch Blackwell In April, I wrote about the Docklight case in Washington State. That case involved a qui tam action pursuant to the False Claims Act in which Docklight, a cannabis ancillary company, settled with the Department of Justice…

Nebraska AG Hilgers joins opposition to reclassifying weed as less-dangerous drug

July 24, 2024
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Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers sent a letter this week from 11 red states arguing that the Biden administration should not reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I drug to the lesser classification of Schedule III. The attorneys general from Alabama,…

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear endorses federal effort to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug

July 18, 2024
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The Biden administration’s push to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug won an endorsement Wednesday from Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, who said “the jury is no longer out” on its medical uses as an alternative to opioids that ravaged the Bluegrass…

FTC and FDA Send Second Set of Cease-and-Desist Letters to Companies Selling Products Containing Delta-8 THC in Packaging Designed to Look Like Children’s Snacks

July 16, 2024
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PRESS RELEASE Agencies call out firms for putting kids’ health at risk for the sake of profit For the second time in as many years, the Federal Trade Commission today sent cease-and-desist letters – jointly with the U.S. Food and…

Heads Up! DEA Wants to Hear from You on Marijuana Rescheduling by July 22

By Vince Sliwoski, Managing Partner, Harris Sliwoski In case you haven’t heard, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) wants to hear from you on marijuana rescheduling. Specifically, DEA invites your comments on its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to move both marijuana and…

Congress Accidentally Legalized Weed Six Years Ago

Drive through Durham, North Carolina, where I live, and you might get the impression that marijuana is legal here. Retail windows advertise thc in glittery letters and neon glass, and seven-pointed leaves adorn storefronts and roadside sandwich boards. The newest business near my…

House Lawmakers Vote To Block Federal Marijuana Rescheduling

July 12, 2024
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The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday approved legislation to block the Biden administration’s ongoing efforts to reschedule marijuana and ease restrictions on the drug under federal law. The Republican-led panel approved an amendment to a funding bill that blocks the…

What Does the Corporate Transparency Act Mean (CTA) for the Cannabis Industry?

By Griffen Thorne, Attorney @ Harris Sliwoski On January 1, 2024, the federal Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) took effect. The CTA requires a host of both domestic and foreign entities to disclose their beneficial ownership to the Treasury’s Financial Crimes…

Court dismisses lawsuit challenging federal marijuana laws

The U.S. District Court of Massachusetts dismissed a case challenging marijuana’s federal illegality on Monday, rejecting arguments made by cannabis companies against prohibition. U.S. District Judge Mark Mastroianni, an Obama appointee, ruled that the plaintiffs have standing to sue, but in dismissing…

Republicans use cannabis smell complaints as ‘excuse’ to oppose legalization, advocates say

Some Republican lawmakers, including Florida governor Ron DeSantis, say that the now-public consumption of marijuana is a nuisance to people who don’t like the smell and a quality-of-life issue. Meanwhile, advocates of marijuana legalization argue that lawmakers are exaggerating the…

‘Sovereign flex’: How a tribe defied officials through cannabis

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians says opening a dispensary is an act of sovereignty. But North Carolina officials have sought to restrict sales. Cherokee, North Carolina – In a converted bingo hall deep in the Appalachian Mountains, Myrtle Driver led…

House GOP strips language aimed at protecting banks from cannabis crackdowns

House Republicans nixed text aimed at protecting banks from cannabis crackdowns from a government funding bill after blowback from fellow GOP lawmakers. The measure was included in the party’s initial version of its annual financial services and general government bill,…

What Hunter Biden’s Verdict Means for Cannabis Users

By Griffen Thorne, Attorney @ Harris Sliwoski I wrote about Robert Hunter Biden’s indictment for violation of federal gun laws in a post entitled “What the Hunter Biden Indictment Means for Cannabis Users” back in September 2023. On June 11, 2024,…

Bad News for Intoxicating Hemp Products

By Griffen Thorne, Attorney at Harris Sliwoski For years, people have tried to decipher the incredibly poorly worded (I can’t stress this enough) language in the 2018 Farm Bill and what it means for intoxicating hemp products like THCA products or delta-8. In the…

Amendment killing nationally legal cannabis makes it into House farm bill

A ban on intoxicating hemp products has made it into the House version of the farm bill. If the amendment makes it through a polarized House and divided Congress, it would end America’s brief experiment with nationally legal cannabis. The language added to the House version of the…

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