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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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September 16, 2025
Smoke Shop Owners Slam NY Tribe's Sanctions Request
Retailers accused by the Cayuga Nation of running an unsanctioned cannabis shop on tribal land have pushed back on a bid seeking sanctions against them for failing to turn over daily cannabis sales records despite a New York federal court's order to do so, arguing "two wrongs don't make a right."
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September 16, 2025
Texas Judge Denies TRO To Stop City Raids On Hemp Shop
A Texas city doesn't have to return $400,000 in cannabis products it took from a smoke shop during a raid that the retailers claim leaned on faulty THC testing and false information, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying it is inappropriate for him to intervene in an ongoing state court criminal case.
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September 16, 2025
NC Tells 4th Circ. New E-Cig Regs Fit With Federal Law
The state of North Carolina is asking the Fourth Circuit to shut down a bid by vaping interests to block a new law giving state tax officials the ability to fine companies for selling vapes not authorized by federal regulators, saying the authority to do so is preserved by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.
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September 16, 2025
Feds Seek Toss Of DC Hemp Store's Home-Rule Challenge
The United States government on Monday urged a federal judge to dismiss a challenge to federal policy restricting the nation's capital from regulating marijuana and hemp sales, saying the local retailer that brought the action lacked standing to sue.
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September 16, 2025
Senate Democrats Urge Chamber Not To Recriminalize Hemp
A group of Democratic U.S. senators on Tuesday urged the chamber's leaders not to adopt language in an appropriations bill that would drastically redefine the definition of legal hemp and which they say could ruin the nationwide hemp industry.
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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
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