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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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April 16, 2026
Cigar Lounge Manager Sanctioned In Embezzlement Case
North Carolina's business court has sanctioned and entered a default judgment against a cigar lounge manager who was accused of misappropriating funds and locking his business partners out of the establishment.
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April 16, 2026
8th Circuit Weighs Link Between Cannabis Use And Danger
An Eighth Circuit panel weighing a man's conviction for owning a firearm as an unlawful marijuana user appeared inclined Thursday to reject his Second Amendment challenge and rule that his violent actions warranted the charge as it was applied to him.
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April 15, 2026
'Deemed' Admissions End Tribal Cannabis Raid Suit
A California federal judge tossed a lawsuit claiming Riverside County in Southern California and its sheriff's department illegally raided a cannabis operation on sovereign tribal land, due to insufficient discovery responses that resulted in "deemed" admissions.
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April 15, 2026
LA Sues To Ban Operators Of Alleged Illegal Cannabis Op
Two Los Angeles-area entrepreneurs have been accused of converting a warehouse into an illicit cannabis grow house to cultivate thousands of plants, according to a state court lawsuit by the city attorney's office, which seeks to impose tens of thousands of dollars in fines and permanently ban them from the industry.
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April 15, 2026
Squires Passes On 10 Patent Challenges, Takes On 2 Others
The newest bulk order from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has rejected 10 petitions for America Invents Act patent reviews while granting a couple others, including a Google challenge to a patent owned by Headwater Research LLC.
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
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- Personnel moves
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- Federal and state policymakers and lawmakers
- General counsel interviews
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- 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.