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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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November 03, 2025
Judge OKs Board Member's Exit From Pot Co.'s 'Neobank' Suit
An Oregon federal court has permanently ended all claims against one of the executives of defunct cannabis-focused neobank Left Coast Financial Solutions who was accused of mismanagement and failing to return nearly $127,000 in deposits made by a CBD distributor, with a magistrate judge admonishing the company for omitting facts to bolster its suit.
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November 03, 2025
Fla. Cannabis Banking Biz Broke Law, Investor Suit Says
An investor in Florida-based First National Bank of Pasco hit the bank with a lawsuit alleging that its inability to manage lending to cannabis industry operators has made it prone to regulatory scrutiny and financial harm, including a recent investigation by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
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November 03, 2025
Philip Morris To Pay $66M Under New Wash. Tobacco Deal
Washington will receive $66 million from Philip Morris under a new settlement resolving long-running disputes over annual payments owed by the major tobacco company under a landmark multistate deal with tobacco producers in 1998 over public health costs, according to the Washington State Attorney General's Office.
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November 03, 2025
Mo. Health Officials Issue Warning On Kratom Extract 7-OH
Missouri health officials have issued a statewide alert warning consumers about the dangers of 7-hydroxymitragynine, or 7-OH, a loosely regulated opioid-like alkaloid derivative of the kratom leaf that is present in numerous consumer products.
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October 31, 2025
Minn. Makes More Tribal Deals To Build 'Unique' Pot Market
Minnesota has signed its fifth compact with a federally recognized tribe, allowing each one to issue licenses for eight cannabis retailers outside their respective reservations, as well as licenses to grow and manufacture the plant, with the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe the latest to reach deals.
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.