Kamala Harris will host a marijuana reform event with Fat Joe March 14, 2024 AggregatedNews Federal 1 Comment Vice President Kamala Harris will hold the administration's first public event on marijuana reform this week after President Joe Biden addressed the issue as one of his priorities in last week's State of the Union address. Harris will convene a… Read More→
Biden Makes a Rare Mention of Marijuana in the State of the Union March 11, 2024 AggregatedNews Federal 0 Comments Buried in President Biden’s fiery re-election pitch in his State of the Union address on Thursday night was a brief mention of an issue he has often been reluctant to embrace: marijuana. It was the first time Mr. Biden had… Read More→
Biden missing opportunity on legalizing marijuana, advocates warn February 24, 2024 AggregatedNews Federal 0 Comments Cannabis advocates say President Biden is missing an opportunity to sway young voters with his reluctance to take bigger steps to legalize marijuana at the federal level. The Biden administration has opened several avenues for marijuana reform including issuing federal pardons for… Read More→
Veterans groups join calls for Biden administration to reschedule marijuana February 22, 2024 AggregatedNews Descheduling or Rescheduling Marijuana 0 Comments Some of the nation’s largest veterans groups are pushing the Biden administration to “expeditiously” ease federal restrictions on marijuana, joining a growing number of calls to reschedule the drug six months after the Department of Health and Human Services recommended doing… Read More→
Thoughts on THCA, Interstate Sales….and Oregon February 19, 2024 AggregatedNews Hemp Policy & Legal, Interstate Commerce, Oregon 0 Comments By Vince Śliwowski, Managing Partner of Harris Sliwoski Friend of the firm Andrew DeWeese published a recent LinkedIn post on Oregon’s outlying stance on THCA the other day, and the priorities of local industry advocates. I wanted to highlight that post and… Read More→
Most Americans want legal pot. Here’s why feds are taking so long to change old rules. February 18, 2024 AggregatedNews Federal 0 Comments Marijuana remains in an odd legal limbo in the United States, and there's one organization at the center of it: The Drug Enforcement Administration. The DEA has for decades held that marijuana is among the most dangerous, highly addictive drugs and… Read More→
Why Trad-Life Guys Are Fuming About Legal Weed February 9, 2024 AggregatedNews Descheduling or Rescheduling Marijuana, Federal, News & Insights 1 Comment Amid speculation that the Biden administration could finally lift the federal ban on cannabis, religious culture warriors have denounced the drug A MAJORITY OF states have already legalized cannabis to some degree, and only some 10 percent of Americans believe it should remain prohibited in… Read More→
What to know about the federal government’s big changes to marijuana rules coming soon February 5, 2024 AggregatedNews Descheduling or Rescheduling Marijuana, Federal 2 Comments It could come today. Or in a few weeks. Maybe within the next month. Whenever it happens, rescheduling marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act – which regulates what drugs are considered illegal and just how illegal they are – would… Read More→
Democrats urge Biden administration to deschedule marijuana January 30, 2024 AggregatedNews Descheduling or Rescheduling Marijuana 0 Comments Senate Democrats are putting new pressure on the Biden administration to ease federal restrictions on marijuana in a new letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration on Tuesday as it considers rescheduling cannabis after it was federally classified more than five decades ago.… Read More→
Marijuana Rescheduling Under The Controlled Substances Act: Potential Impacts On Cannabis Businesses January 26, 2024 Tariq Naeem Descheduling or Rescheduling Marijuana, Federal 2 Comments By Tariq Naeem, Tucker Ellis LLP Marijuana advocates and businesses have cheered recent news that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) recommended to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) that it reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule… Read More→
President Biden Needs Cannabis To Win In 2024. Here’s Why. January 25, 2024 AggregatedNews Federal 0 Comments A recent poll found positive impressions of President Biden improve by double-digits if he reschedules cannabis. The youth rejoiced when President Biden pushed through hard-fought financial aid in the form an additional $5 billion in student loan forgiveness. This move will offer relief… Read More→
HHS Marijuana Recommendation Now on Blast January 16, 2024 Hilary Bricken Descheduling or Rescheduling Marijuana, Federal, Policy & Legal 0 Comments By Hilary Bricken, Attorney at Husch Blackwell In October 2022, President Biden asked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Attorney General to review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law. In August 2023, the HHS marijuana… Read More→
House Republicans Investigating Spread Of Chinese-Backed Marijuana Farms In United States January 15, 2024 AggregatedNews China, Federal 0 Comments Top House Republicans are requesting a briefing from the Department of Homeland Security and the Drug Enforcement Agency on the spread of illegal Chinese-backed marijuana farms across the United States. The letter from House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green, Rep.… Read More→
Federal Scientists Recommend Easing Restrictions on Marijuana January 13, 2024 AggregatedNews Federal 0 Comments Marijuana is neither as risky nor as prone to abuse as other tightly controlled substances and has potential medical benefits, and therefore should be removed from the nation’s most restrictive category of drugs, federal scientists have concluded. The recommendations are… Read More→
SCOTUS Denies Certiorari to Dispensary Owner Seeking Citizenship (UPDATED) January 10, 2024 Tom Hymes Federal, Interstate Commerce, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments Lost among the many, many cases denied certiorari by the United States Supreme Court in its order list for the week of Monday, January 8, 2024 was Reimers V. U.S. Citizen & Immigration Services, a case the plaintiff was desperately… Read More→