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  • Cannabis, Competition, and a Constitutional Crisis

    Jun 25, 2020, 10:00 am By Daniel Shortt
    On June 23, 2020, John Elias, a career Department of Justice (DOJ) official, submitted written testimony to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary (the Committee) in response to a Congressional investigation into the politicization of the DOJ office under…
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  • Credit Unions and Hemp: New Federal Guidance is Here!

    Jun 24, 2020, 10:00 am By Vince Sliwoski
    Last week, the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) issued new guidance (“Guidance”) for federally-chartered credit unions serving the hemp industry. All of us at Harris Bricken were excited to see the Guidance released: NCUA retained us last fall…
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  • Cannabis Litigation: U.S. Trustee in UCANN Bankruptcy Requests Marijuana Patent Infringement Case Dismissal

    Jun 23, 2020, 10:00 am By Jesse Mondry
    For over a year my colleague Jihee Ahn, an experienced intellectual property litigator, has tracked the first-ever cannabis patent infringement case United Cannabis Corporation v. Pure Hemp Collective Inc. (You can read about extraction, prior art, the Alice…
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  • Cannabis Litigation in the Time of COVID-19

    Jun 22, 2020, 10:00 am By Jihee Ahn
    Last week, I wrote about the sad and anti-climatic ending of the first cannabis patent infringement case. UCANN is in the same predicament as many other businesses in the industry, and most experts expect the pandemic to create a surge of bankruptcy cases in…
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  • Hemp CBD Across State Lines: Wyoming

    Jun 21, 2020, 10:00 am By Daniel Shortt
    The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill) legalized hemp by removing the crop and its derivatives from the definition of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and by providing a detailed framework for the cultivation of hemp. The…
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  • You Ask, We Answer (Part 2): Questions From the California Cannabis Webinar

    Jun 20, 2020, 10:00 am By Alison Malsbury
    I recently teamed up with my colleagues Hilary Bricken and Griffen Thorne to put on a free webinar answering all of your pressing questions about cannabis legal issues in California. (Check out the replay here.) The response was overwhelmingly positive, and we…
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  • Juneteenth and Criminal Justice Reform

    10:00am By Jesse Mondry
    Several years ago, before becoming a business litigator, I had the great fortune of clerking for Judge Myron H. Bright on the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals. Born in northern Minnesota in 1919 to Jewish immigrants from Russia, Judge Bright served in World War…
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  • International Cannabis: Guidance for Companies Entering the U.S. Market, Part 3 – State Governance

    Thu 10:00am By Jonathan Bench
    In prior blog posts (see here, here, and here), I described how we have been fielding regular inquiries regarding international cannabis, both from companies inside the U.S. looking internationally and from international companies looking to the U.S. market.…
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  • It’s Time to Disband the DEA

    Jun 17, 2020, 10:00 am By Daniel Shortt
    Racism in America is not confined to the criminal justice system, it is embedded in all aspects of our society, but the continued killing of Black men and women by police and law enforcement personnel has lead to a breaking point. The video of George Floyd’s…
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  • Using Marijuana Tax Revenue to Promote Racial Justice

    Jun 16, 2020, 10:00 am By Nathalie Bougenies
    Nationwide protests in the wake of the police killing George Floyd have reignited a public debate over police brutality in the United States. People are demanding police forces be defunded or even disbanded. The call to defund the police is of course a…
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  • FREE Webinar: Ketamine, Psilocybin and New Drug Therapies

    Jun 15, 2020, 10:00 am By Canna Law Blog
    Register HERE for our upcoming FREE webinar! For the last 10 years, Harris Bricken attorneys have counseled countless domestic and international businesses and entrepreneurs on rapidly evolving laws and regulations in the cannabis, hemp, and cannabidiol (CBD)…
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  • Hemp CBD Across State Lines: Wisconsin

    Jun 14, 2020, 10:00 am By Nathalie Bougenies
    The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill) legalized hemp by removing the crop and its derivatives from the definition of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and by providing a detailed framework for the cultivation of hemp. The…
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  • You Ask, We Answer (Part 1): Questions From the California Cannabis Webinar

    Jun 13, 2020, 10:00 am By Alison Malsbury
    I recently teamed up with my colleagues Hilary Bricken and Griffen Thorne to put on a free webinar answering all of your pressing questions about cannabis legal issues in California. (Check out the replay here.) The response was overwhelmingly positive, and we…
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  • An Anti-Climactic End to the First Cannabis Patent Litigation?

    Jun 12, 2020, 10:00 am By Jihee Ahn
    Our last update on the first-ever cannabis patent case, United Cannabis Corporation (“UCANN”) v. Pure Hemp Collective, Inc. (“Pure Hemp”) was back in July 2019. A lot has changed in the world since then (although the case was largely unremarkable), and…
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  • Charlotte’s Web Faces Another Class Action Lawsuit For Improperly Marketing CBD Products

    Mar 11, 2020, 12:41 pm By Jesse Mondry
    The hemp-derived CBD market is a tough one right now. From uncertainty in when and how the FDA may begin regulating products, to the downturn in the stock markets as result of the coronavirus affecting the hemp industry, the problematic interim rules…
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  • The International Cannabis Trade: The Webinar Video Replay

    Mar 10, 2020, 10:00 am By Canna Law Blog
    Not able to join our panelists last week for their talk about the international cannabis trade? We’ve got you covered! Below, please find the full presentation for your viewing pleasure. In the near future, we also plan to put together a follow-up post…
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  • Girl Scouts Allege Misappropriation by Cannabis Edibles Company

    Mar 9, 2020, 10:00 am By Alison Malsbury
    As usual, we’ve been monitoring both brewing and active trademark disputes in the cannabis space, and the most recent example involves the institution that is the Girl Scouts. For background, here are some of the other disputes we’ve covered in the past:…
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  • Hemp CBD Across State Lines: Pennsylvania

    Mar 8, 2020, 10:00 am By Griffen Thorne
    The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill) legalized hemp by removing the crop and its derivatives from the definition of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and by providing a detailed framework for the cultivation of hemp. The…
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  • Sephora Paves the Way in Regulating CBD Cosmetics

    Mar 7, 2020, 10:00 am By Nathalie Bougenies
    While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) continues to drag its feet in forging a clear path for the sale and marketing of hemp-derived cannabidiol (“Hemp CBD”) products, foreign agencies and industry players are leading the way by adopting…
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  • California Cannabis Litigation: Airing the Dirty Laundry Edition

    Mar 6, 2020, 10:00 am By Griffen Thorne
    We’ve written a good amount on how ugly litigation will be. There’s federal illegality and the possibility that a court refuse to rule on a contract dispute because cannabis is federally illegal. Companies can be sued for false advertising and have all of…
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