Cannabis

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

  • November 14, 2025

    Cannabis Co. Green Thumb Seeks Toss Of THC Potency Suit

    Green Thumb has urged an Illinois state court to permanently end a proposed class action accusing the cannabis giant and its subsidiaries of mislabeling their products to get around state-mandated THC potency limits, arguing that what the plaintiff-consumers have described is a mistake in law, which is not fraud.

  • November 14, 2025

    Hemp Transporter Sues Ill. Cops Over Traffic Stop Seizure

    An entrepreneur who distributes hemp to retailers in St. Louis and Chicago claims in Illinois federal court he is being hassled by local law enforcement, who have unlawfully confiscated much of his Delta-8 inventory and put his business "at risk of collapse," in turn endangering his family's sole source of income.

  • November 14, 2025

    DC Circ. Wary Of DEA Delays In Religious Ayahuasca Case

    A D.C. Circuit panel on Friday appeared skeptical that the Drug Enforcement Administration was justified in its delays processing an Iowa church's application for a religious exemption to the Controlled Substances Act to use a psychedelic in its rites.

  • November 13, 2025

    Cancer Patient Was Severely Addicted, Tobacco Jury Told

    The youngest daughter of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer testified Thursday at trial against Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds that her mother went to emotional and behavioral extremes to get her "fix."

  • November 13, 2025

    Hemp Policy At Crossroads After Government Reopening Bill

    Hemp industry advocates are pledging to use the one-year gap between enactment and implementation of the government funding agreement, which effectively recriminalized most hemp-derived THC products, to craft new regulatory legislation that stops short of a full ban.

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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
  • 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
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  • Challenges to federal or state regulations
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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.