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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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January 22, 2026
3rd Circ. Says Medical Pot Contract May Violate Federal Law
The Third Circuit on Thursday vacated a medical cannabis company's win in a lawsuit filed by a consultant claiming that it had stolen his trade secrets for growing marijuana samples, finding it couldn't decide the appeal because the parties' contract might have violated federal drug law.
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January 22, 2026
Concrete Co. Fights Rehire Order After Marijuana Allegation
A concrete supplier sought to vacate an arbitration award ordering it to rehire an employee who was fired after he tested positive for marijuana, arguing to a New Jersey federal court that the award doesn't "draw its essence" from the company's collective bargaining agreement.
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January 22, 2026
Medical Cannabis Co. Says Data Breach Didn't Lead To Injury
An Ohio medical cannabis company has said a consolidated class action in federal court should be dismissed as it doesn't allege any of the plaintiffs' data was accessed in a data breach or that the breach could be linked to any real damage.
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January 21, 2026
PE Firm Used Jail Threats To Steer Cannabis Deal, Court Told
A private equity firm can't free itself from a contract breach spat between a CBD and hemp product manufacturer and its business partner, as the firm not only interfered with the contract but also threatened to have people thrown in jail if they refused to capitulate, a North Carolina federal court heard Wednesday.
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January 21, 2026
Pot Co., Rolling Paper Maker Settle 'Juicy' Trademark Suit
A tobacco company and Colorado cannabis company told a federal judge that they have settled a trademark lawsuit in which the maker of Raw rolling papers had asked the court to permanently bar the cannabis company from using its product names.
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.