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Banking Sector Cannabis-Related Businesses (CRBs) Decriminalization of Marijuana

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Bipartisan Coalition of AGs Bank on SAFER Cannabis Reform

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A bipartisan coalition of state and territorial AGs sent a letter to Congress urging the passage of the SAFER Banking Act of 2025, which would create federal safe harbor protections for financial institutions that serve...more

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The SAFE Banking Act

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The Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act (SAFE) of 2019 creates “protections for depository institutions that provide financial services to cannabis-related legitimate businesses and services providers for such businesses,...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

To Reschedule or To Deschedule: That Is the (Marijuana) Question

Now that the dust is starting to settle on the recent news that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has recommended to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) that marijuana be moved from Schedule I to...more

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Cannabis Industry Quarterly Update: Q2 2023

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There Has Been Little Movement in Federal Legalization. This has led to cannabis investors and companies to downgrade expectations for federal legalization and focus their strategies on state reform. Federal lawmakers...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Lawmakers Reintroduce Bipartisan Cannabis Banking Legislation

On April 26, 2023, Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Steve Daines (R-MT) led a bipartisan group of lawmakers in reintroducing the SAFE Banking Act—legislation that aims to ensure that state legal cannabis businesses have access...more

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Cannabis Legal Report - January 2023

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New York City Attempts to Crack Down on Illicit Cannabis Market - During a council hearing on Jan. 18, 2023, New York City lawmakers and law enforcement officials discussed the need for tackling the city’s illicit cannabis...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

If You Don’t Believe, You Won’t Receive: Predicting Three Cannabis Reforms in the Coming Year

I’m not proud of it, but I’m the resident cynic amongst the editorial staff here at Budding Trends when it comes to federal marijuana reform. And after all, someone has to temper the frivolous whims of others. But we’re...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Promissory Notes - Banking & Finance Insights, Volume 2, Issue 11 2022

Schumer: Senate ‘Very Close’ To Passing SAFE Banking Act - “The House of Representatives passed the bill for the sixth time earlier this year.” Why this is important: The passage of the Secure And Fair Enforcement...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Finding a Bank and Insurance Company for a Cannabis Business

With apologies to Ben Franklin and others, nothing is more certain if you operate a cannabis company than your need for access to banking services and insurance (FWIW, the death and taxes part is probably also the case). This...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

MarkIt to Market® - September 2021: Trailblazing Cannabis Legislation Updates

On September 29, 2021, the House Judiciary Committee held a mark-up session of the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act (MORE), which not only would de-classify cannabis as a Schedule I narcotic under the...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

MarkIt to Market® - September 2021

The September 2021 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter discusses a recent non-precedential Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decision regarding intent-to-use applications covering CBD products currently...more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Congress Keeps Taking Baby Steps on Marijuana Reform

This month, two congressional Republican lawmakers introduced a bill to legalize marijuana at the federal level, as well as to protect banks that service state-legal cannabis businesses and to ensure that military veterans...more

The Rodman Law Group, LLC

Lawmakers Work to Include SAFE Banking Act Provisions in Next Stimulus Bill

The Secure And Fair Enforcement Banking Act (“SAFE Banking Act”) passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 321-103 in September 2019, but it stalled in the U.S. Senate. Due to COVID-19, it would appear that at...more

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