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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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March 20, 2026
Feds To Cover Ayahuasca Church's Legal Fees, 9th Circ. Says
The federal government is on the hook for more than $2 million in attorney fees following a settlement with a Phoenix-based church over its right to use the psychedelic beverage ayahuasca in religious ceremonies, a divided Ninth Circuit panel said in an unpublished opinion Friday.
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March 20, 2026
NY Appellate Court Tosses Challenge To Pot Legalization
New York's intermediate appellate court has upheld the dismissal of a challenge to the state law that legalized adult-use cannabis, saying that legalization was not preempted by federal drug policy.
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March 20, 2026
Court Indicates Dormant Commerce Applies To Adult-Use Pot
A Rhode Island federal judge said Friday she was compelled to find that the U.S. Constitution's dormant commerce clause applied to federally unlawful recreational marijuana in a case challenging the state's plan for awarding retail cannabis licenses.
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March 20, 2026
Man Says Marketing, Sales Put Chinese Co. In Court's Reach
A man suing a Chinese vape manufacturer is pushing back against its efforts to dismiss the suit from North Carolina federal court, arguing that its marketing and sale of vapes in the state put it within the court's jurisdiction.
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March 19, 2026
LA Cannabis Shop Fights Shutdown Over $4.9M Tax Bill
The new manager of a Los Angeles cannabis dispensary is suing state and city agencies in California state court to stop them from shutting down the business over a $4.9 million unpaid tax bill incurred by old management, arguing the agencies are acting arbitrarily and denying the managerial company due process.
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
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- 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.