As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the country, many businesses have closed temporarily under “stay-at-home” or “shelter-in-place” orders – but cannabis companies largely have been exempted from this trend.
A variety of different jurisdictions across the county have deemed cannabis
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As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has reached pandemic levels, companies of all sizes and in all industries face myriad impacts to business operations and the health and well-being of employees.
To help clients navigate these new challenges, including the unpredictability
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USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue testified yesterday at a subcommittee hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee. USDA’s 2021 budget request was the reason for the hearing, but there was also key discussion around the agency’s hemp rules. Excerpted highlights include the
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Earlier this week, FDA sent its status report regarding a potential CBD enforcement discretion policy to Congress. As we wrote here, FDA was required to issue the report per the Joint Explanatory Statement attached to the 2020 Ag Appropriations
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Partner Matt Luzadder was quoted in Bloomberg Law’s February 18, 2020, article, “Unions Elbow Into Pot Industry With State-Backed ‘Peace’ Deals.”
The cannabis industry is estimated to grow to $30 billion in sales by 2025. Accompanying that estimate is
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Over the past few years, a handful of law firms have filed thousands of lawsuits over website accessibility issues. This has been a lucrative business for these firms. Many of these suits are essentially cut-and-paste jobs, and the recipients often
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On January 21, 2020, an Idaho state court held that nearly 7,000 pounds of seized hemp would remain forfeited to the Idaho State Police (“ISP”). As we discussed in our recently published article, the defendant in the case, Big
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As we begin the 2020 legislative session, states legislatures are introducing bills that would prohibit marijuana retailers from collecting any personal information from consumers other than a government-issued identification for the purpose of consumer age verification. Specifically, the Hawaii state
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Texting customers without proper consent is risky business. As we discussed here, there has been a flood of lawsuits over the past five years against companies large and small relating to their texting practices. With many new entrants to
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Last week, workers at Cresco Labs, one of Illinois’ largest cannabis companies, voted to join the Local 881 chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). The vote, conducted by the National Labor Relations Board just two weeks after
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As Americans across the country begin gathering W-2s and various receipts to calculate personal income taxes, California’s legislature and governor are contemplating ways of making the state’s legalized marijuana industry more competitive by reducing taxes and streamlining the regulatory structure.
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