Cannabis

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.



Sign up for a 7-day FREE trial today!



Latest News in Cannabis

  • June 18, 2026

    Consumer Drops Out Of Vape Price-Fixing MDL

    A consumer suing a Chinese vape manufacturer and its U.S. distributors over an alleged price-fixing conspiracy for cannabis vape cartridges has dropped out of the suit, while the broader proposed class action seeking to recover hundreds of millions in damages for consumers nationwide continues.

  • June 18, 2026

    Conn. Deal Lets Mashantucket Tribe Join Cannabis Market

    Connecticut and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation have signed a cannabis compact allowing transactions between tribal enterprises and state-licensed entities, the first deal of its kind since Connecticut legalized recreational marijuana in June 2021 and the tribe penned its own cannabis regulations that same year.

  • June 18, 2026

    DEA Picks Only Pot Foes To Join Rescheduling Hearings

    The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Thursday announced its selection of interested parties to participate in upcoming administrative hearings on a proposal to reclassify marijuana to a less restrictive status, each of whom is understood to oppose marijuana rescheduling.

  • June 18, 2026

    Cannabis World Cheers Justices' Gun Rights Ruling

    Cannabis industry stakeholders on Thursday largely applauded the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision finding that a ban on gun ownership for drug users is unconstitutional as applied to a person who regularly uses marijuana.

  • June 18, 2026

    'Web' Of Kratom Cos. Can't Escape Addiction Fraud Claims

    A Virginia federal judge won't let a group of kratom companies and their individual owners out of a suit alleging that they conspired to hide kratom's addictive qualities, saying the proposed class action plaintiff has sufficiently alleged the formation of an "interconnected web of corporations" aimed at perpetuating the alleged fraud.

See more Cannabis news

Cannabis

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
  • Profiles of law firm cannabis practices
  • Federal and state policymakers and lawmakers
  • General counsel interviews

READERSHIP

  • Cannabis lawyers at large to medium-sized law firms and boutiques
  • In-house counsel, compliance officers and executives at cannabis companies
  • Counsel and executives at venture capital and investment firms
  • 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.