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

  • May 19, 2026

    6th Circ. Rejects Mich. City Dispensary Co.'s Due Process Claim

    A cannabis investment company can't sue a city within metro Detroit for refusing to allow it to open a dispensary, the Sixth Circuit ruled, saying a local official's alleged promise to "grandfather" the company in, despite a ban on new retailers, can't supersede a city ordinance.

  • May 19, 2026

    Black CU Regents Board Member Says Board 'Silenced' Her

    University of Colorado Board of Regents members sanctioned the board's sole Black member for speaking out against a university-funded campaign that she says pushed false and racist stereotypes about Black people, the board member alleged in Colorado federal court.

  • May 19, 2026

    Trump's Psychedelics EO Creates A Regulatory Collision

    Sponsors pursuing U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for psychedelic drug access must tackle how to generate regulatory-grade safety and efficacy data in controlled trials when President Donald Trump's recent executive order on psychedelics mandates uncontrolled access through Right to Try, say Kimberly Chew at Husch Blackwell and Odette Hauke at Odette Alina.

  • May 19, 2026

    Realtor, Dispensary Say Other Shop Is Abusing RICO Claims

    A realtor, a dispensary and its owner are urging an Illinois federal court to toss racketeering claims from another dispensary alleging they helped plan an illegal "raid," saying the complaint is abusing the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act process and fails to meet any of its pleading requirements.

  • May 19, 2026

    Spencer Fane Adds GrayRobinson Atty To Food & Bev Team

    A former in-house attorney, who worked for Lyft and the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America, has left her most recent role as a GrayRobinson PC attorney to join Spencer Fane LLP's newly launched food and beverage group.

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Cannabis

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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
  • Tax disputes
  • Challenges to federal or state regulations
  • TRANSACTIONS
  • M&A activity involving cannabis companies
  • Commercial real estate transactions
  • PROFILES
  • Personnel moves
  • Profiles of law firm cannabis practices
  • 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.