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

  • October 30, 2026

    Massachusetts And Idaho To Vote On Restricting Cannabis

    On Tuesday, voters in Massachusetts and Idaho will consider ballot measures that would roll back or restrict marijuana legalization, marking the first time that all statewide ballot questions on the issue of cannabis are geared toward fighting reform.

  • October 30, 2026

    DEA Begins Registering Hundreds Of Marijuana Dispensaries

    The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration began registration of more than 900 state-licensed medical marijuana dispensaries across seven states, according to an announcement on Friday by the U.S. Department of Justice, which said applications for manufacturers and distributors would likely require additional review.

  • October 30, 2026

    NY Pot Business Program Not Preempted By CSA, Court Says

    A New York state appeals court ended a lawsuit by a group of anti-cannabis activists that challenged state funding for recreational marijuana dispensary buildouts, ruling the funding doesn't conflict with federal drug law.

  • October 30, 2026

    Cannabis Co. Says Retailer Failed To Pay $301K For Goods

    A cannabis distributor is suing the owner of five dispensaries in California state court, alleging they haven't paid more than $301,000 in invoices and that they claimed they would pay on a "sell-through" basis despite such an agreement being neither negotiated nor agreed to.

  • October 29, 2026

    Utah Officials Say 10th Circ. Rightly Revived Psilocybin Case

    County and local officials in Provo City, Utah, urged the Tenth Circuit not to give a religious group a second chance at arguing that it shouldn't be prosecuted for using psilocybin in its practices, slamming the church's arguments as "overblown."

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  • 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
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  • Commercial real estate transactions
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  • Federal and state policymakers and lawmakers
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  • Federal and state lawmakers
  • Judges and court staff across the U.S.
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