Illinois’ top cannabis official Toi Hutchinson leaves post to head national lobbying group that helped draw up law making pot legal in state

The top marijuana official in Illinois, Toi Hutchinson, is leaving her state job to work for the national lobbying group that led the push to legalize cannabis in the state. Hutchinson, who was Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s senior adviser for cannabis…

Fifty Years: How Marijuana Became Re-Legalized In America

By Allen St. Pierre Part of a year-long series, longtime cannabis law reform advocate and historian Allen St. Pierre examines monthly for Cannabis Business Executive the last fifty years of cannabis prohibition and the public advocacy efforts in America to bring…

Marijuana Policy Project Adds Three New Members to Board of Directors

PRESS RELEASE The new board members include former Colorado State House Leader and Pueblo County Commissioner Sal Pace, who will also serve as a senior policy advisor; Sheri Orlowitz, a former Justice Department prosecutor and founder of Artemis Holdings Group;…

Fifty Years: How Marijuana Became Re-Legalized In America

Part of a year-long series, longtime cannabis law reform advocate and historian Allen St. Pierre examines monthly for Cannabis Business Executive the last fifty years of cannabis prohibition and the public advocacy efforts in America to bring about the ongoing and…

Fifty Years: How Marijuana Became Re-Legalized In America

Part of a year-long series, longtime cannabis law reform advocate and historian Allen St. Pierre examines monthly for Cannabis Business Executive the last fifty years of cannabis prohibition and the public advocacy efforts in America to bring about the ongoing and…

Marijuana Policy Project Retains Mason Tvert to Serve as National Spokesperson, Coordinate Media Relations

PRESS RELEASE Tvert, a partner at VS Strategies, co-directed the successful 2012 Colorado legalization initiative campaign and helped pass several successful marijuana policy reforms as MPP’s communications director from 2013-2017 WASHINGTON — The Marijuana Policy Project announced Friday it has retained…

Smith’s Act of Contrition and the Battle to be “The Voice of the Cannabis Industry”

Over the last few weeks, there have been a number of announcements and articles that are connected to the behind the scenes posturing taking place to determine the "Voice of the Cannabis Industry". Two weeks ago, we all read about…

Conflict of Interest and the Seven Deadly Sins

The Merriam Webster dictionary defines the term conflict of interest as: a conflict between the private interests and the official responsibilities of a person in a position of trust It goes on to include the legal definition of conflict of interest…

Two Board Members Resign at NCIA

Breaking News Amid allegations of multiple problems at the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) that went public in the pages of CBE Press over the past couple of weeks, two board members have officially resigned. CBE Press has learned that…

Feds Can’t Interfere: Appropriations Committee Approves Amendment Again, Adds Two More States

July 27, 2017
David Hodes
Compliance and Regulations, Policy & Legal
1 Comment

In a move closely watched by the cannabis industry, an amendment by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), vice chairman of the Appropriations Committee, was approved Thursday, giving another year of protection from federal interference to medical marijuana businesses in states where…