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  • Oregon Cannabis 2021: Legislative Forecast and Report

    Jan 26, 2021, 10:00 am By Vince Sliwoski
    The Oregon legislative session kicked off in earnest last week, with 32 proposed cannabis bills crowding the docket. In this post, I will run down the list and offer brief comments on each offering, as I do every year. Before diving in, though, some context…
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  • Arizona Issues Interim Final Regulations AND New Recreational Licenses

    Jan 25, 2021, 10:00 am By Ethan Minkin
    Exciting times have arrived in Arizona’s cannabis industry! The Arizona Department of Health Services (the “Department”) (1) released final interim rules for recreational licensees, and (2) issued new recreational licenses. As noted by Marijuana…
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  • Circle K is the Latest Company to Take on a Cannabis Business in a Trademark Dispute

    Jan 24, 2021, 10:00 am By Alison Malsbury
    Earlier this month, Circle K Stores Inc., owner and operator of the chain of Circle K convenience stores, filed a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) Notice of Opposition against Medical Marijuana, Inc., a California company with a pending U.S.…
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  • Does My International Cannabis Business Need to Pay U.S. Federal or State Taxes?

    Jan 23, 2021, 10:00 am By Jonathan Bench
    We regularly field inquiries from international companies and existing international clients regarding U.S. cannabis business operations. This post and the two that follow will answer questions for foreign cannabis companies regarding when they need to pay…
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  • California Agencies Win Discovery Stay in Hemp Destruction Dispute

    Jan 22, 2021, 10:00 am By Jihee Ahn
    Back in April 2020, Apothio sued the County of Kern and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, alleging that in October 2019, state and county law enforcement agents entered its farm fields and ordered the destruction of 500 acres of hemp crops worth…
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  • Medical Cannabis is Fully Legal in Mexico: Now What?

    Jan 21, 2021, 10:00 am By Adrián Cisneros Aguilar
    In our last post, we alerted you on the publication of the new Regulations on Sanitary Control for the Production, Research and Medical Use of Cannabis and Its Pharmacological Derivatives (the “Medical Regulations”). In this post, we provide an overview of…
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  • Washington Cannabis: What to Watch for in 2021

    Jan 20, 2021, 10:00 am By Jonathan Bench
    Because this is the beginning of the year, and because I have had many clients ask me about the status of Washington’s cannabis market lately, I wanted to weigh in on my predictions for Washington cannabis developments in 2021. WSLCB Rules Even though we…
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  • USDA Hemp Final Rule: Hits and Misses

    Jan 19, 2021, 10:00 am By Nathalie Bougenies
    Last Friday, January 15th, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (the “USDA”) announced today’s publication of its hemp production final rule in the Federal Register, which will go into effect on March 22, 2021. This final rule builds on the interim final…
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  • MLK Day: Cannabis and Civil Rights

    10:00am By Canna Law Blog
    It has become an annual MLK Day tradition here at Canna Law Blog to remind our readers that, first and foremost, cannabis is a civil rights issue. We’ve explained why here, here, here and here. The past year ushered in some promising developments, from…
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  • California, Cannabis and Telehealth: Part I

    Sun 10:00am By Hilary Bricken
    The ancillary companies that provide goods and services to the cannabis industry are legion. From equipment, real estate, legal services, and technology to packaging, labeling, intellectual property, hardware, and apparel, the list is basically endless for the…
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  • BCC Announces Proposed Regulations re: AB 1525 and Financial Services

    Jan 16, 2021, 10:00 am By Alison Malsbury
    On January 14th, the California Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC) issued an announcement of proposed regulations pursuant to AB 1525, which was approved by the Governor in September 2020. The purpose of AB 1525 was to: provide that an entity, as defined, that…
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  • California Tries Again with CBD

    Jan 15, 2021, 10:00 am By Griffen Thorne
    California has a rocky history when it comes to hemp-derived CBD. Despite the fact that the state adopted a robust medical and recreational cannabis program, for years it has taken the mystifying position that many kinds of hemp-derived products simply can’t…
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  • Ecuador’s Hemp Regulations

    Jan 14, 2021, 10:00 am By Fred Rocafort
    In October, Ecuador’s agriculture ministry (MAG) released hemp regulations, in the form of Acuerdo Ministerial No. 109 (English). This follows the National Assembly’s 2019 decriminalization of cannabis with a THC content of less than 1.0% THC (which…
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  • Oregon Cannabis: What is My Partial Marijuana Dispensary Ownership Interest Worth?

    Jan 13, 2021, 10:00 am By Jesse Mondry
    A couple of months ago, my colleague Vince Sliwoski wrote Oregon Cannabis Dispensary Sales: What We Are Seeing on Valuation, which focused on the secondary market for cannabis licenses and businesses. Vince explained that the retail market, i.e. the purchase…
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  • BREAKING NEWS: Cannabis for Medical Use Just Became Fully Legal in Mexico

    Jan 12, 2021, 1:37 pm By Adrián Cisneros Aguilar
    Mexico’s Regulations on Sanitary Control for the Production, Research and Medical Use of Cannabis and Its Pharmacological Derivatives (the “Regulations”) were published today in the Federal Official Gazette, for entry into force tomorrow. These…
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  • Cannabis Patent Litigation Update: Canopy Growth Sues GW Pharma

    Jan 12, 2021, 10:00 am By Alison Malsbury
    We’ve written previously about the basics of cannabis patents, which are a substantial area of growth within the cannabis industry, and we’ve written extensively about cannabis trademark litigation (see some of our posts here, here, and here), which has…
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  • Biden’s Attorney General Pick on Cannabis: Status Unknown

    Jan 11, 2021, 10:00 am By Hilary Bricken
    We have a long history here on the Canna Law Blog of analyzing the moves of the federal goverment, and in particular the Department of Justice (DOJ), when it comes to federal enforcement of the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Over the years, we really…
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  • The Future for Smokable CBD Products is Not Great

    Jan 10, 2021, 10:00 am By Griffen Thorne
    The last few years have been a wild ride for the United States’ hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) industry. Ever since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took the position that CBD is unlawful in many consumer products, the industry has faced many questions…
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  • Oregon Cannabis: What to Watch for in 2021?

    Jan 9, 2021, 10:00 am By Jesse Mondry
    As we recently wrote, 2020 was a remarkable year for the Oregon cannabis industry for several reasons including COVID-19 and raging wildfires. This post follows up on the “State of the State” and is a sister poste to our California Cannabis: What to Watch…
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  • FREE Webinar – Mexico in Cannabis

    Jan 8, 2021, 10:00 am By Canna Law Blog
    Register HERE! Mexico will soon be the largest country in the world to legalize cannabis and now is the time to start preparing for that. Join Harris Bricken, in partnership with Mexico-based law firm, Lawgic, for a FREE hour-long webinar on Thursday, January…
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