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

  • March 04, 2026

    Okla. Judge Lets Pot Grower Save Plants Amid Dispute

    An Oklahoma state judge has allowed a cannabis grower to tend to and preserve its plants while it challenges an order from regulators suspending its operations.

  • March 04, 2026

    4th Circ. Won't Reconsider Stay Of Block On Va. Vape Law

    The Fourth Circuit won't hold an en banc or other rehearing of its decision to stay an order blocking enforcement of certain Virginia e-cigarette regulations.

  • March 04, 2026

    Conn. Resident Asserts Dormant Commerce Cannabis Suit

    A would-be cannabis grower challenging Connecticut's marijuana licensing program urged a federal judge not to toss his claims that the state's social equity licensure scheme is discriminatory, asserting that even as a resident of the state, he has an injury that gives him standing to sue.

  • March 04, 2026

    Medical Pot Co. Can't Escape Guarantor Status In Lease Fight

    A Puerto Rico federal judge won't let Vireo Health Inc. escape responsibility as guarantor of a lease under which one of its subsidiaries failed to pay a landlord, finding that it can't benefit from its own breach of the contractual terms.

  • March 03, 2026

    Mass. Sheriff Must Face Pot Extortion Charges

    A federal judge on Tuesday denied a request by a Massachusetts sheriff to toss charges that he used his position to obtain pre-initial public offering shares in a cannabis dispensary and a refund when their value dropped.

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  • Drug Enforcement Agency
  • U.S. Department of the Treasury
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  • 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
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  • FDA and FTC actions over cannabis’s purported health claims
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