Cannabis Products, Legislative Agendas, Research and Development

The Week in Weed: May 2025

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 5/2/2025

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, the Congressional Cannabis Caucus is hoping to lift the ban on cannabis research. A DC dispensary heard...more

Defending Psychedelics: Congress Includes Psychedelic Provisions in Defense Authorization Act

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 1/4/2024

We told you it may be coming, though we were admittedly cynical about the ability to pass a bill funding psychedelic research given the current political landscape — a narrowly controlled Democratic Senate that is generally...more

Doctor-Patient Relationships and Medical Marijuana: Where Are We Now?

McDermott Will & Schulte on 12/29/2022

On December 2, 2022, President Joseph Biden signed the Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act (Cannabis Research Act), which provides a mechanism for industry and academia to access and research cannabis,...more

Movement On CMRE Act and MORE Act On Capitol Hill

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/31/2022

On Thursday, March 24, 2022, the Senate unanimously passed the CMRE Act (Cannabidiol and Marihuana Research Expansion Act) and House leadership scheduled the MORE Act (Marijuana Opportunity and Expungement Act) for a floor...more

Food & Beverage Litigation Update l July 2020 #2

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. on 7/27/2020

LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - New York Legislature Passes Bill To Ban PFAS In Food Packaging - The New York legislature has passed SB 8817, which would prohibit “the distribution, sale, and offer for sale in...more

The Week in Weed: July 2020 #4

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 7/24/2020

BALLOT INITIATIVES - We’ll start in Arizona, where officials began verifying signatures this week. Polls show legalization is much more popular now than it was in 2016, when a legalization initiative was defeated. Not...more