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April 28, 2026
Two Texas smoke shop owners claim they suffered police raids, arrests and nearly $5 million of their business funds being frozen, all because one of their vape suppliers, Delta Munchies LLC, sold them products containing illicit levels of THC despite marketing them as legal hemp, according to a lawsuit filed in Texas state court.
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April 28, 2026
Financial technology company Ryvyl Inc. and its founders have agreed to settle the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's allegations that the company made disclosures falsely representing itself as selling blockchain-based payment solutions, according to an announcement.
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April 28, 2026
A Michigan cannabis business owner on Tuesday urged a federal judge to toss a suit accusing him of running an investment scam, saying that because pot is still federally illegal, the court is barred from ordering him to pay restitution to the plaintiff because to do so would make the federal court complicit in an illegal transaction.
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April 28, 2026
A group of advocates opposed to legal cannabis, as well as a cannabinoid company and two individuals, are fighting the government's bid to halt their challenge to a program to give Medicare beneficiaries access to federally legal hemp products, saying the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services violated federal law by instituting the program without notice or comment.
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April 27, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Monday granted Altria and Juul's request to appeal a ruling certifying several classes of e-cigarette buyers in an antitrust case alleging the companies schemed to have Altria exit the e-cigarette market.
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April 27, 2026
A Minnesota brewery cannot escape a beverage startup's fraud and trade secrets lawsuit, a federal court has ruled, ordering more discovery after a jury delivered a $1.8 million verdict in a separate case in which the co-founder admitted to faking paperwork.
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April 27, 2026
Legal strategies are evolving quickly in the wake of last week's "historic" rescheduling of state-legal medical cannabis, as a group of attorneys and advocates gathered Monday to evaluate the trade-offs of dispensaries now being able to register like pharmacies with the feds and the potential effect on industry investments and trade.
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April 27, 2026
A Florida federal judge will not force a medical marijuana company to accept liability for sanctions incurred by its in-house counsel over the misuse of generative artificial intelligence, rejecting a rival company's arguments that the lawyer previously avoided monetary sanctions for filing errors and was likely to do so again.
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April 24, 2026
A commercial landlord and property manager must pay $1.7 million to a brokerage firm, despite their claims that it was not the one who landed Green Thumb Industries as a tenant, a New Jersey appeals court ruled, saying that was not the deal the parties signed.
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April 24, 2026
The Oregon Health Authority's refusal to allow home-based psilocybin services for terminally ill patients who cannot travel violates federal law, a coalition of disability rights groups have told an Oregon federal court in a brief in favor of broadening the state's psilocybin access program.
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April 24, 2026
A Michigan appellate court panel has restored an Open Meetings Act challenge to a city's recreational marijuana licensing process, ruling its closed-door review of applications for two retail licenses must face further scrutiny even as the court upheld dismissal of claims that an ordinance violated state cannabis law and constitutional protections.
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April 23, 2026
A solar company claims that Colorado's economic loss rule bars a negligence claim from a pair of hemp growers that claim a broken irrigation line caused nearly $200 million in damages to their hemp farm, according to a motion to dismiss filed in Colorado federal court Thursday.
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April 23, 2026
The Michigan Supreme Court has ordered the state's intermediate appeals court to accelerate a closely watched constitutional challenge to the state's 24% cannabis tax that went into effect earlier this year, halting trial court proceedings as the appeal unfolds.
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April 23, 2026
A campaign to repeal the legalization of retail cannabis in Massachusetts via ballot initiative — the first campaign of its kind in the country — has triggered a legal action from cannabis business owners akin to the sort pushed by legalization opponents for years.
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April 23, 2026
An Ohio federal judge has trimmed claims from a securities class action against Scotts Miracle-Gro and several of its executives claiming they misled investors about the lawn and garden care company's inventory levels, debt covenant compliance and financials.
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April 23, 2026
Despite an order from the U.S. Department of Justice loosening federal restrictions on medical marijuana, the Trump administration signaled Thursday that it does not intend for the changes to cannabis regulation to apply retroactively.
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April 23, 2026
Cannabis company Trulieve Inc. has said a rival company's complaint against it lacks any factual basis to support the allegation Trulieve infringed the rival's patents, urging a Florida federal court to throw out the suit.
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April 23, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice published a final order Thursday loosening federal restrictions on medical marijuana products that fall within the ambit of state-regulated programs or have approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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April 22, 2026
The Global Kratom Coalition and a seller of dietary supplements are urging a federal court to block Utah's law reining in the psychoactive products derived from the kratom leaf, arguing it is preempted by federal food and drug laws.
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April 22, 2026
An investor and a cannabis license holder are suing a couple they had hoped would manage a Los Angeles marijuana dispensary for them, claiming in California state court that they instead created $3.4 million in "phantom debt" to steal majority ownership interests in the business and then misappropriate millions.
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April 22, 2026
RJ Reynolds Vapor Co., which produces Vuse e-cigarettes, filed a suit in Delaware federal court seeking a declaration that it does not infringe a patent held by rival VPR Brands.
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April 22, 2026
Virginia legislators on Wednesday rejected Gov. Abigail Spanberger's proposed changes to a bill that would create a regulated cannabis market.
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April 22, 2026
Massachusetts' highest court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Philip Morris USA Inc. to impose rules aimed at curbing big-dollar punitive damages awards, declining to wipe out or further reduce a verdict against the tobacco company that was already slashed from $1 billion to $56 million.
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April 21, 2026
A man who sued a cannabis retailer on allegations he received unsolicited text messages has voluntarily dismissed his Florida federal lawsuit just a month after the company argued the Telephone Consumer Protection Act only covers calls, not texts.
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April 21, 2026
The Seventh Circuit declined Tuesday to revive vaping interest groups' bid to halt enforcement of a Wisconsin law banning sales of e-cigarettes that aren't approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, finding federal law doesn't preempt the state's authority to regulate the marketing and sales of tobacco products.