Hemp, Licensing Rules, Proposed Legislation

Proposed Bill from Joint Cannabis Committee Would Adopt Meaningful Reforms to Struggling Mass. Cannabis Industry

Foley Hoag LLP - Cannabis and the Law on 5/29/2025

Nearly nine years after voters authorized the regulated sale of adult use cannabis in Massachusetts, the Joint Cannabis Committee is addressing the challenges (and that’s an understatement) the industry is facing with a very...more

NC Legislature Considers Comprehensive Hemp Regulation: What Businesses Need to Know

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 5/14/2025

At Ward and Smith, we are closely monitoring these developments to help our clients with the potential impacts on their businesses. Below is an overview of what stakeholders in the hemp industry need to know about this...more

Is “Compromise” a Four-Letter Word? Alabama Legislature Passes Comprehensive Consumable Hemp Reform Bill

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 5/9/2025

“Compromise” sometimes gets a bad rap. And history teaches us that there can be bad compromises. But as your resident glass-is-half-full contributor who has also been closely following debate over access to consumable hemp...more

Missouri Legislature’s Proposals to Regulate Hemp-Derived Consumable Products

Troutman Pepper Locke on 2/13/2025

Last year, we wrote about the former Missouri governor’s efforts to curb the availability of intoxicating hemp products to Missouri consumers by executive order. There are now several proposed bills in the Missouri...more

Cosmetics, Hemp, and CBD: Legislative and Regulatory Update

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 11/1/2019

Seyfarth Synopsis: Through a reintroduced House bill, Congress is taking strides to push for cosmetic regulation reform and, separately, through the SAFE Act, it is seeking to establish a safe harbor for financial...more

New York: The (H) Empire State?

Foster Garvey PC on 2/19/2019

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Proposed Legislation on Legalization of Cannabis - Under the leadership of New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo (whose party also controls the State legislature), the Empire State appears...more