Ensuring Entrepreneurs and Businesses Stay Informed of Developments in the Burgeoning Cannabis Industry
Florida’s First District Court of Appeals issued an opinion in Florida Dept. of Health, et al. v. Florigrown, LLC, Case No. 1D18-4471, last week. The court’s ruling upended Florida’s medical marijuana industry by deeming the state’s current regulatory scheme—and by extension the cap on the number of licenses—unconstitutional.
Read MoreToday, Michigan’s Marijuana Regulatory Agency released the state’s social equity plan for recreational marijuana. The plan—which was mandated by the November 2018 ballot proposal that legalized adult-use marijuana—is aimed at assisting communities that have been disproportionately impacted by the enforcement on marijuana prohibition.
Read MoreRyan Holz, Doug Sargent, David Standa and Irina Dashevsky will be presenting at the Celesq AttorneysEd Center Webinar, The Land of Lincoln (and Weed): An Analysis of Illinois’s Recreational Marijuana Law, on July 23, 2019.
Read MoreAllowing cannabis companies to access traditional banks and financial services has bipartisan support in the U.S. Congress. And it is a no-brainer; barring cannabis companies from accessing financial services is a public safety risk and a massive hindrance to business efficiency and tax collection, with no corresponding benefits.
Read MoreIn a research letter published on July 8, 2019 in JAMA Pediatrics (a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association), Drs. Mark Anderson, Benjamin Hansen, and Daniel I. Rees reported that teen marijuana use might decrease in response to recreational legalization.
Read MoreThe House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security held a hearing yesterday titled “Marijuana Laws in America: Racial Justice and the Need for Reform” and heard testimony on the disparate impact of marijuana criminalization on minority communities.
Read MoreLast week, Michigan took a big step toward recreational cannabis sales when Michigan’s Marijuana Regulatory Agency released its long-awaited emergency rules to regulate the marijuana market. The rules come more than seven months after Michigan voters passed Proposal 1 to legalize recreational marijuana.
Read MoreHawaiʻi leans left politically, but it has been slow to join its fellow Western states on cannabis. In fact, Hawaiʻi’s cannabis laws look more like North Dakota’s than California’s. Recent developments suggest some progress is being made, but much remains to be done.
Read MoreMarijuana-related employment lawsuits are on the rise as more workers who have been fired or denied a job over their marijuana use are utilizing litigation to challenge the decisions. This, in turn, is forcing employers to formulate new strategies to balance the risk of litigation against the possibility of impaired employees hurting someone on the job, damaging the business, or possibly even worse.
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