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.



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Latest News in Cannabis

  • May 01, 2026

    NJ Court Says Gun Law Doesn't Justify Firing Cops Over Pot

    The federal Gun Control Act's prohibition on cannabis users possessing firearms does not preempt New Jersey's cannabis legalization law, a New Jersey state appeals court ruled Friday, rejecting Jersey City's bid to use the federal law to justify the firing of two police officers who tested positive for cannabinoids.

  • May 01, 2026

    Pot Co. Sues Mich. Town Over 'Arbitrary' Zoning Enforcement

    Michigan cannabis dispensary chain Joyology is suing a beach town, alleging in a federal complaint that local officials put at risk the company's ability to open a location there through the "arbitrary and inconsistent enforcement" of its zoning ordinances.

  • May 01, 2026

    Fla. Jury Hears Menthol Smoker Succumbed To Addiction

    A Florida jury heard in opening arguments Friday that a woman who died of lung cancer after smoking R.J. Reynolds cigarettes was a victim of the severely addictive nature of nicotine, something her lawyers said even the U.S. surgeon general didn't acknowledge until 1988.

  • May 01, 2026

    Texas High Court Revives Delta-8 THC Restrictions

    The Lone Star State's health commissioner has the power to ban manufactured delta-8 THC goods, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday, lifting a lower court's order that had allowed hemp companies to keep selling these products while they sued the state.

  • May 01, 2026

    Legal Meth Does Not Exist, 7th Circ. Says

    A Seventh Circuit panel upheld the conviction of an Illinois methamphetamine dealer who represented himself at trial, rejecting his argument that "some methamphetamine is legal," including the type he confessed to selling to police informants.

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