Mitigating and Addressing Litigation Risks for Cannabis Businesses
Cannabis M&A: Pain Points and Opportunities
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Cannabis Companies and the Corporate Transparency Act
Intellectual property considerations for launching new cannabis products
Unpacking the current cannabis regulatory landscape and how it impacts your business
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Inside a Top MSO with Jushi's EVP of Legal Affairs Matt Leeth
Managing Employee Compliance in Highly Regulated Industries — Hiring to Firing Podcast
If Cannabis Is Reclassified, What Will Happen to the Marketplace? – Diagnosing Health Care
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Farmers First According to Humboldt Trim Company
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: THC Infused Beverages: Cantrip's Journey Through the Hemp-Derived Looking Glass
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Cannabis Investing in the U.S. - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Catalyst Cannabis Takes on the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration Over Cannabis Excise Taxes
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Cannabis Banking from the Inside: An Interview with Salal Credit Union
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: The ‘CannaBoies' Lawsuit and Why it Matters
Budding Regulations: Navigating the Cannabis Regulatory Landscape — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Chronic Payments: Unraveling the Complexities of Cannabis Banking — Payments Pros: The Payments Law Podcast
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 27 - Blazing Trails: Cannabis Law in the Garden State
Cannabis and Bankruptcy Laws
A Changed Legal Landscape? Analyzing California’s New Cannabis Laws
Obtaining a Recreational Marijuana License from Your Local Municipality
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency’s proposal to reschedule cannabis from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) has generated considerable buzz across business sectors, including for the...more
As the regulated sale of cannabis increasingly becomes sanctioned under state law, federal implications arising from its classification as a controlled substance continue to frustrate those in the banking industry who view...more
Medical cannabis has arrived in Mississippi. What does that mean for Mississippi banks? The implications of this development are enormous for the financial services industry in Mississippi, as each institution will soon have...more
Despite the cannabis industry’s explosive growth, many financial institutions have been hesitant to transact with cannabis-related businesses given the ambiguity created by divergent state and federal cannabis laws. The SAFE...more
In November 2018, Missouri voters passed Amendment 2, setting in motion state regulated medical marijuana. Over the last month, the Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services (DHSS) began approving license applications...more
On December 3, 2019, four federal agencies – the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), and the Office of the...more
On September 25, 2019, the US House of Representatives ("House") passed, by a vote of 321 to 103, the Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act ("SAFE Banking Act"), bipartisan legislation designed to secure and regulate...more
Following last year’s passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) issued a regulatory update in August of 2019 to federally insured credit unions. Citing growth in hemp-related commerce,...more
On August 20, 2019, the National Credit Union Administration issued a regulatory alert to all federally insured credit unions providing "interim guidance" regarding the service of hemp businesses by credit unions. The alert,...more
On August 19, 2019, the National Credit Union Administration (“NCUA”) released Interim Guidance on Serving Hemp Businesses to federally insured credit unions on the developing federal law and regulation related to the hemp...more
Federal legislators continue to struggle over the growing disconnect between increasing State legalization of the cannabis industry, and the continued illegality of cannabis under federal law....more
Agencies Issue Joint Statement on BSA/AML Resource Sharing Arrangements - The federal banking agencies, along with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) and the NCUA, have...more
Why it matters - One Colorado credit union is taking matters into its own hands after the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (FRB-KC) and the National Credit Union Association (NCUA) rejected the institution's...more