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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 10, 2025
Texas City, Police Seek Dismissal Of CBD Shop's Raid Suit
Abilene, Texas, is urging a federal judge to toss a lawsuit brought by cannabis entrepreneurs who claim its police knowingly used bad THC testing to justify seizing $400,000 worth of product from their shop, arguing that the retailers failed to claim law enforcement violated their rights with deliberate indifference.
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November 10, 2025
'Legal Fiction' May Doom Rastafarian's Haircut Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared to doubt Monday that a Rastafarian could hold Louisiana prison guards personally responsible for allegedly violating his religious rights when they forcibly shaved off his dreadlocks, with the justices splitting ideologically over whether a federal law gave the guards enough warning about their potential liability.
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November 10, 2025
Pot Shop Bombards People With Promo Texts, TCPA Suit Says
A Southern California cannabis dispensary was hit with a proposed class action in federal court Friday alleging it violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending unsolicited telemarketing messages to individuals to promote its services, despite the fact their numbers have been placed on the national Do Not Call registry.
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November 10, 2025
Lack Of Notice Dooms Some Claims In Ark. THC Vape Suit
An Arkansas federal judge has dismissed some claims from a proposed class action alleging that a retailer, vape-maker and others conspired to sell vapes with THC levels higher than legally allowed.
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November 07, 2025
Smoke Shop Sanctioned Tossing Sale Docs In NY Tribal Row
After destroying sales records daily over the course of three years, the retailers accused by the Cayuga Nation of running an unauthorized cannabis shop will face sanctions, a New York federal judge ruled, calling their behavior "grossly negligent and likely willful."
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
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- Federal criminal matters
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