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New Opinion Confirms Growing Trend Away from “Zero Tolerance” Cannabis Bankruptcy Relief Policy

By Jihee Lee, Attorney at Harris Bricken As those in the cannabis industry are fully aware, the option of bankruptcy has not been available to cannabis or many cannabis-adjacent businesses to date. The courts have consistently indicated debtors who work…

State Cannabis Gun Right Laws Won’t Work

By Griffen Thorne, Attorney at Harris Bricken In the past few weeks, I’ve published a few posts (here and here) about recent federal cannabis gun rights cases. In those cases, the courts disagreed on whether the federal government can prohibit…

Cannabis Litigation: The Illegality Defense and Damages

by Jihee Ahn, Attorney at Harris Bricken Around this time last year, my colleague, Jesse Mondry, wrote about a District of Colorado case, entitled Sensoria, LLC et al. v. Kaweske, et al. , which involved a group of plaintiffs who…

The Ethical Cannabis Lawyer

by Vince Sliwoski, Attorney at Harris Bricken Last Friday, I spoke on a panel for the American Bar Association (ABA) in Denver. It was the first conference for the ABA’s new Global Cannabis section and the first live event I’ve…

Cannabis and the Federal Courts

August 12, 2020
Ian Stewart
Federal
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By Ian A. Stewart All participants within the cannabis industry should understand the potential risks of litigating disputes in the federal courts. Federal policy regarding enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) has shown ambivalence where the possession and distribution of…

Support for the STATES Act Yields Unlikely Coalitions

One consequence of the recent groundswell of state marijuana legislation has been the emergence of less charged political discourse surrounding marijuana policy, a topic that was until recently considered a third rail. As the stigma continues to erode at the…