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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 19, 2025
Rand Paul Eyes Returning Hemp Policy To The States
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who unsuccessfully sought to strike hemp ban language from the government spending bill, told Kentucky hemp interests Wednesday that he was considering legislative language that would return the issue to the states.
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November 19, 2025
Cannabis REIT Innovative Industrial Hit With New Investor Suit
A shareholder for cannabis-focused real estate investment trust Innovative Industrial Properties Inc. accused the REIT's current and former executives Wednesday of not telling shareholders about how poorly several of the its largest tenants were doing.
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November 19, 2025
Cresco Gets THC Potency Suit Tossed In Federal Court
Cannabis giant Cresco Labs has, for now, beaten a proposed class action accusing it and its subsidiaries of mislabeling their cannabis oil to get around Illinois THC potency limits, after a federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the consumer's suit, at best, points to a mistake in law, and not an instance of fraud.
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November 19, 2025
Conn. Officials Say Feds' Bill Moots Challenge To Hemp Law
Connecticut state officials are urging a federal court to throw out a suit from hemp producers challenging the state's regulation of intoxicating hemp products, saying the redefinition of hemp in the recently signed bill reopening the government is even stricter than the state's regulations, making the case moot.
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November 18, 2025
Pa. Panel Says Burnt Weed Smell Justified Search
The Pennsylvania Superior Court on Tuesday refused to suppress evidence in a drug possession case, ruling that the odor of burnt marijuana creates probable cause for police officers to detain someone and search for drugs.
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.