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Cannabis Law Report

• Media Report: FL Judge Rules in Favor of Paramedic in Medical Marijuana Case December 20, 2024
  A Hillsborough County judge has sided with a paramedic who was suspended after testing positive for cannabis, ruling that the county must accommodate employees with medical marijuana cards. Judge Melissa Polo in her ruling said Hillsborough County cannot discriminate against employees using medical marijuana off-site and must provide accommodations unless there’s evidence of use or […]
• NORML: West Virginia: Supreme Court Rules Against Medical Cannabis Use While on Probation December 20, 2024
  Charleston, WV: Judges may prohibit people on probation from using medical marijuana despite the state’s decision to legalize and regulate the substance, according to a recent ruling by the state Supreme Court. The Court determined that the West Virginia Cannabis Act, which lawmakers passed in 2016, “does not supersede or prevent a circuit court from requiring a probationer to […]
• Husch Blackwell’s Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Local Government and Cannabis Enforcement — What Matters and Why December 20, 2024
  In this episode, Husch Blackwell’s Hilary Bricken hosts Jennifer Morris, former Supervisor of the Cannabis Enforcement Team for Riverside County, California, who discusses her experience navigating one of the toughest cannabis markets in the U.S. as California transitioned from illegal to legal adult-use cannabis with the passage of key legislation in 2016. Jennifer highlights the […]
• CO Dept Of Revenue Update: Colorado AG files lawsuit against Foxhole Farms….”exceeded legally allowable levels of Delta-9 THC.” December 20, 2024
    Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (pictured right) has filed a lawsuit against Foxhole Farms LLC, a Mesa County-based business that marketed cannabis products as federally legal industrial hemp, and the company’s owner Dane Snover. The lawsuit, filed in Adams County District Court on Nov. 21, shows how investigators with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office conducted undercover […]
• West Virginia Supreme Court: Medical cannabis use not guaranteed for probationers despite Cannabis Act protections December 18, 2024
  West Virginia News reports.. The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld that probationers cannot use medical marijuana if it violates federal law or court-imposed probation conditions. Judges have broad discretion to impose reasonable probation conditions, including prohibiting otherwise lawful medical cannabis use. The ruling clarifies that the West Virginia Cannabis Act doesn’t override probation laws or […]
• Publication IDPC: A world of harm: how U.S. taxpayers fund the global war on drugs over evidence-based health responses December 14, 2024
  11 December 2024 Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) Harm Reduction International (HRI) U.S. leads global drug war The role of the United States in exporting the destructive war on drugs to other countries is unparalleled. Since 1971, the U.S. has spent more than a trillion dollars on the war on drugs, prioritising law enforcement responses and […]
• Publication IDPC: Beyond punishment: from criminal justice responses to drug policy reform December 14, 2024
  The Global Commission on Drug Policy’s report, Beyond Punishment: From Criminal Justice Responses to Drug Policy Reform, exposes how punitive drug policies have driven mass incarceration and grave human rights violations. In 2023 alone, over 3.1 million people were arrested for drug-related offenses, with 20% of the global prison population detained for such crimes – nearly […]
• DEA Hearings: ALJ Sets Schedule and Ground Rules for Evidentiary Hearings on Marijuana Rescheduling – Thankyou To Foley Hoag December 14, 2024
  Foley Hoag have kindly published a simple overview and the dates of the evidentiary hearings After months of uncertainty and what Administrative Law Judge John J. Mulrooney called “spirited motion practice by the Designated Participants,” we finally have some clarity on the path forward toward the potential rescheduling of marijuana. Following a preliminary hearing on […]
• Tennessee hemp groups seek to halt rules that would prohibit THCA products December 13, 2024
  MJ Biz Hemp retailers and growers in Tennessee have filed an 11th-hour legal challenge to halt impending rules that are expected to restrict all THCA products in the state. The Tennessee Healthy Alternatives Association and Tennessee Growers Coalition last week filed complaints against the state’s Department of Agriculture, contending rules requiring hemp product testing conflict with a […]
• Video – Lawyer, Thomas Howard: Legislating From The Bench & Hemp – Justice Scalia’s Textualism & Intoxicating Hemp Derivatives December 13, 2024
    Also – further commentary by OR cannabis lawyer Andrew DeWeese Published on Linked In A colleague, Thomas Howard, made a video (link below) recently, claiming that federal circuit court precedent defining “hemp” under federal law was wrongly decided, smacked of judicial activism, and would have former Justice Antonin Scalia rolling over in his grave. […]
• The New York Supreme Court has granted a preliminary INJUNCTION impacting Conditional Adult Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) and the entire December provisional round. December 13, 2024
  David B. Feder, Esq Cannabis Business, Licensing and Litigation Attorney  posted the following to Linked In yesterday Major update on New York’s cannabis licensing front: The New York Supreme Court has granted a preliminary INJUNCTION impacting Conditional Adult Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) and the entire December provisional round. In sum, applicants who met the location […]
• Australia: See You In Court. CDA Clinics Qld Denies TGA Allegations About Advertising December 12, 2024
  Cannabiz Australia Full report – paywall CDA Clinics Qld prepares to fight TGA allegations over CBD ordering platform   https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/
• CANNRA Held 4th Annual Member Meeting In San Diego December 12, 2024
  Here’s the update on their annual shindig.. December 10, 2024 – The Cannabis Regulators Association (CANNRA), a non-partisan, non-profit association of government agencies involved in cannabis, cannabinoid, and hemp regulation, held their 4th Annual Member Meeting in San Diego, California from Dec. 2-5. The meeting was restricted to member government agencies and invited governments and included […]
• Obedio provides meetings summary For 17 state cannabis regulatory meetings this week December 10, 2024
  I used an AI generated image from Gencraft for the header image for this upadate  which is a perfect illustration as to why AI has a long way to go. I asked for a generated image of “Regulators Meeting”. I didn’t even bother to write USA because i knew that bias would immediately make it […]