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→
Ninth Circuit Denies Citizenship to Foreign-born Washington State Dispensary Owner June 6, 2023 Tom Hymes News & Insights 1 Comment A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a cut-and-dried opinion Friday affirming last year’s district court summary judgment denying Maria Elena Reimers the right to become a naturalized citizen. Reimers is the… Read More→
Moonstone No More: Alameda-backed Bank Will No Longer Service Crypto/Cannabis Industries January 31, 2023 Tom Hymes Banking, Finance & Real Estate, News & Insights 0 Comments Following the seizure of bank accounts by federal prosecutors tracking down assets held by fallen FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and others, Farmington State Bank, the tiny Washington state institution that received a $11.5 million investment in March from FTX offshore… Read More→
Marijuana Fundraising In California: What’s In Your Private Placement Memorandums? November 15, 2017 Hilary Bricken Cannabis Investments, Compliance and Regulations 1 Comment Many of our California clients that are raising money ask us to draft or review private placement memorandums (“PPMs“) for private securities offerings in their cannabis companies and/or ancillary cannabis companies. As you would expect, investment in California cannabis businesses is… Read More→
Assembly Bill 133 is the Cannabis Technical Fix Bill California Needs September 13, 2017 Hilary Bricken California, Policy & Legal 1 Comment Having begun my cannabis legal career in Washington state, which is a cannabis marketplace that started with a loose collective model and then morphed into the heavily regulated medicinal and adult use marketplace it is today, I know firsthand that it… Read More→
When abnormal is the norm May 22, 2017 Matt Walstatter Compliance and Regulations, The Buck Stops Here 1 Comment Sometimes working in cannabis leaves me feeling like I’m through the looking glass. It’s not just that my job is federally illegal, or that we now offer receipts for cannabis after generations of lurking in the shadows. Often the strangest… Read More→
Blues Traveler Drummer Talks Shop About His ‘Cannabis Boutique’ in Washington August 25, 2016 AggregatedNews Industry People 0 Comments Marijuana and music have always gone together. This is nothing new, and with widespread legalization on its way, the connection between the two will likely only become stronger. Now that a number of states have already made the selling and… Read More→
Washington State’s Medical Marijuana Database Wasn’t Ready For July 1 Launch July 1, 2016 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal, Washington 0 Comments The new Washington state database that’s supposed to provide benefits to medical marijuana users as they get folded into the recreational system wasn’t ready to launch as Friday’s deadline loomed. David Johnson, spokesman for the Department of Health, said an… Read More→
Washington Marijuana Applicants’ Personal Info Accidentally Released by the State June 8, 2016 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments SEATTLE — The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board is working to notify marijuana license applicants whose personal information was accidentally distributed by the agency in response to a public records request. The data may include social security numbers, driver’s… Read More→
Washington State Lawmakers Vow to Work Together on Recreational, Medical Pot Rules June 6, 2016 John Hollon Washington 0 Comments OLYMPIA -- Democratic and Republican state lawmakers can approach issues — like taxes, minimum wage and global warming — with wildly conflicting views. But Tuesday, on at least one issue, a glimmer of brotherly love wafted across the Legislature. Make… Read More→
New State Rules Could Help Give Birth to “Big Marijuana” March 25, 2016 AggregatedNews Cannabis Investments, Industry Jobs 0 Comments When the legal pot industry began to boom in Washington, big-money investors predicted the cannabis trade in the Northwest would soon be the darling of corporate America. Former Mexico President Vincente Fox appeared at a Seattle news conference in 2013… Read More→
Irked Over No Budget, Washington Governor Vetoes Hemp Bill Instead March 16, 2016 AggregatedNews Hemp Business Executive, Hemp Industry News, Hemp Policy & Legal 0 Comments OLYMPIA — Legislation to legalize hemp farming was among a batch of bills Gov. Jay Inslee vetoed last week to punish lawmakers for not passing a budget before the regular session adjourned. The setback for hemp advocates may only be temporary.… Read More→
Seattle Business Owners Question State’s Issuing of New Retail Licenses February 25, 2016 AggregatedNews News & Insights, Retail 0 Comments Several longtime business owners in Seattle are calling into question the state's methods of issuing the newest batch of marijuana retail licenses. The state Liquor and Cannabis Board says it is now finished issuing the total 48 retail licenses in… Read More→
Washington State Hasn’t Followed Colorado and Recalled Marijuana Products February 15, 2016 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments Despite fining two marijuana growers and suspending the licenses of two others for using unapproved pesticides, Washington state hasn’t recalled any products for pesticides during the 18 months that legal pot sales have been allowed. The city of Denver, by… Read More→
Seattle Mayor Pushing Bill to Legalize Cannabis Delivery Services in the City January 20, 2016 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments There are any number of services that will deliver your dinner. Instacart will bring you groceries. Drizly will bring you wine. Amazon will even deliver you a chair to sit on while you eat and drink, all within hours of… Read More→