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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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December 01, 2025
Boston Beer Hit With Putative Class Action Over Noncompetes
A pair of former employees for The Boston Beer Co. — the company behind brands including Samuel Adams and Twisted Tea — filed a proposed class action on Monday accusing it of forcing employees into noncompetition agreements in violation of Massachusetts law.
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December 01, 2025
NY Cannabis Regulators Says Town's Zoning Code Preempted
New York State Office of Cannabis Management told a New York federal court that a local town's zoning law at the heart of a dispute between the town and a licensed cannabis dispensary "is preempted and invalid" due to a prior state board decision.
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December 01, 2025
Worker Wants Cannabis Co. Trade Secrets Suit Trimmed
A former supervisor at New Jersey cannabis products maker Kushi Labs LLC is looking to whittle down a trade secrets lawsuit accusing her of siphoning off confidential materials and giving them to a rival, arguing in a Wednesday filing that a federal law prohibits only hacking, not employees' misuse of their access.
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December 01, 2025
Libertarian Orgs. Tell Justices Cannabis Ban Is Outdated
A pair of libertarian advocacy groups have filed friend-of-the-court briefs urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case challenging the federal prohibition on marijuana, arguing that a 20-year-old precedent wrongly expanded Congress' power to regulate intrastate commerce.
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December 01, 2025
Loan Co. Can't Avoid Cannabis Co.'s Contract Breach Suit
A New Jersey federal judge won't let a lender escape a cannabis company's allegations that the lender falsely held it in default so it could seize almost $2 million, saying the complaint sufficiently alleged that the lender went back on enforceable promises.
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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- 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.