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Cannabis Law360 provides breaking news and analysis of emerging and evolving legal issues surrounding cannabis. Coverage ranges from regulatory and policy concerns facing the industry to the business of lawyers who counsel cannabis companies. Among the practice areas covered are intellectual property, mergers & acquisitions and employment.
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Latest News in Cannabis
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May 09, 2024
Skadden-Led Firm Nets $250M In May's Second SPAC Listing
GP-Act III Acquisition Corp., a Skadden-led special-purpose acquisition company backed by multiple private investment firms, began trading on Thursday after completing a $250 million initial public offering, marking the second SPAC listing this month in an otherwise battered market.
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May 09, 2024
Judge Halts DEA's Hearing On Proposed Psychedelics Ban
An administrative law judge with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has ordered the agency to cancel a June 10 hearing on its proposal to ban two psychedelic substances while a researcher's federal lawsuit challenging the agency's actions plays out in court, according to an order made public Thursday.
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May 09, 2024
Man Says LG Chem Can't Duck NC Courts In Battery Suit
A man suing South Korea-based LG Chem Ltd. over an exploding lithium-ion battery is urging a North Carolina federal district court to find that it has jurisdiction over the company, saying LG has sufficient ties to the state through its marketing and selling of the batteries, even if it doesn't sell directly to customers.
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May 09, 2024
4th Circ. Mulls Scope Of Farm Bill In Virginia Hemp Fight
A Fourth Circuit panel on Thursday pushed attorneys for the state of Virginia and a group of hemp companies and customers to define precisely how much power states have to restrict the production and sale of intoxicating products derived from federally legal hemp.
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May 08, 2024
In Final Memo, Blumenauer Eyes Path Forward For Cannabis
Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., a longtime champion of cannabis reform in Congress who plans to retire this year, is calling marijuana reform a "winning issue" for policymakers and outlined numerous actions both legislators and federal agencies can take to move the issue forward.
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Food & Drug Administration
- Federal Trade Commission
- Drug Enforcement Agency
- U.S. Department of the Treasury
- California Bureau of Cannabis Control
- Department of Health & Human Services
- Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- U.S. Department of Justice
- State and international regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- SAFE Banking Act
- STATES Act
- Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement, or MORE, Act
- Section 280E of the Internal Revenue Code
- Rohrabacher–Farr amendment
- Bank Secrecy Act
- Federal and state legislation
- ENFORCEMENT
- FDA and FTC actions over cannabis’s purported health claims
- IRS actions against cannabis companies
- Antitrust investigations
- Financial regulatory actions
- Federal criminal matters
- State enforcement actions
- LITIGATION
- Civil RICO actions brought against cannabis concerns
- Employment disputes
- Securities class actions
- Intellectual property matters
- Consumer class actions
- Bankruptcy
- Tax disputes
- Challenges to federal or state regulations
- TRANSACTIONS
- M&A activity involving cannabis companies
- Commercial real estate transactions
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
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- Federal and state policymakers and lawmakers
- General counsel interviews
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- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Federal and state lawmakers
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.