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The Week in Weed: July 2025 # 2

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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, another cannabis legalization measure cropped up in Pennsylvania. ...more

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The Week in Weed: May 2025 # 3

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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, Wisconsin’s legislature says no to the Governor’s cannabis proposal. Pennsylvania’s Senate says no to the...more

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The Week in Weed: May 2025

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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

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The Week in Weed: September 2024 # 4

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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, we’re taking a deep dive into the world of intoxicating hemp. We’ll check in on the latest attempts to...more

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HB 1053 Proposes Tripling Medical Marijuana Facility Proximity Rules

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A newly proposed piece of Florida legislation, HB 1053, aims to triple the required “buffer” distance between schools and medical marijuana treatment centers that cultivate, process, or dispense medical cannabis....more

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Maryland Releases Draft Cannabis Regulations in Preparation for Legalization on July 1, 2023

Last week the Maryland Cannabis Administration (MSA) released its draft emergency regulations for the state’s adult-use marijuana market which is set to come online on July 1. The draft regulations are subject to review by...more

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Summary: Amendments to Maryland House Bill 556 and Senate Bill 516

Maryland House Bill 556 (cross-filed with Maryland Senate Bill 516), introduced on February 3, 2023, contains essential provisions for any person or entity interested in participating in the cannabis industry in Maryland....more

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Cannabis: Goin’ to Carolina in My Mind

We have long suspected that North Carolina may be the next great cannabis market. In describing North Carolina as “the sleeping giant of the South,” we wrote recently: From Murphy to Manteo, North Carolina is a state that...more

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High Cotton: The Emergence of a Southern Cannabis Industry

When Neil Young wrote that “Southern change gonna come at last,” he wasn’t talking about cannabis— but he might as well have been in light of the recent and extraordinary developments in the cannabis industry in the southern...more

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Hope is Fading for Legalization of Adult Use Marijuana in Rhode Island in 2021

A few weeks ago, we wrote that “political support for legalizing recreational cannabis in Rhode Island may finally be reaching a critical mass.” It seems our prediction was premature and it is becoming more likely that the...more

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Is the RI Legislature Getting Serious About Legalization?

It appears that political support for legalizing recreational cannabis in Rhode Island may finally be reaching a critical mass. The details of how Rhode Island might go about legalizing recreational cannabis—and not whether...more

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Alabama on the Brink of Adopting Medical Cannabis

When Alabama’s Legislature convenes for its annual session on February 2, lawmakers will once again be asked to consider a bill that would provide certain Alabamians with access to medical cannabis. And this time, supporters...more

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The Week in Weed: May 2020 #5

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The news is mostly happening in the states this week. Oklahoma is having some medical marijuana issues. Massachusetts recreational shops reopened. Virginia decriminalized marijuana. Ohio may not put cannabis on the ballot...more

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The Chronicle: American Adult-Use Marijuana Laws

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Adult-use marijuana has arrived in America. Eleven states and the District of Columbia have legalized the use of marijuana by adults without a prescription. While the legalization movement began in the American West, two of...more

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The Dome Report - 2020 West Virginia Legislature Updates, Issue 4

The 2020 Regular Session of the West Virginia Legislature just reached the 30th day, or its half way point. As of today, the House has introduced 1289 bills, while the Senate introduced 725. We will continue reporting on...more

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House Members Strongly Urge Senate Banking Committee to Make “Legal” Cannabis SAFE for Banking

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On January 21, 2020, the four lead bipartisan sponsors of H.R. 1595, the SAFE Banking Act, U.S. Reps. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., Steve Stivers, R-Ohio, Denny Heck, D-Wash., and Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, sent a letter to Senate...more

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The Week in Weed: January 2020 #4

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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. The big news in cannabis this week comes from New Mexico.  Legislation introduced last Thursday would legalize...more

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The Week in Weed: January 2020

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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. Let’s start off with Illinois, where recreational marijuana became legal on January 1, 2020....more

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Food & Beverage Litigation Update l October 2019

LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - House Passes Cannabis Banking Bill - The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the SAFE Banking Act, which allows financial-service firms to work with “cannabis-related...more

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Update: Recent Momentum in Efforts to Provide Cannabis Businesses Access to Financial Services

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We regularly blog about the conflict between state and federal law related to cannabis and the uncertainty regarding how federal criminal and Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) law will, or will not, be enforced against financial...more

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Senate Follows House Seeking to Make Cannabis Banking "S.A.F.E."

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Sens. Jeff Merkley and Cory Gardner have reintroduced the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act as a companion to House bill HR 1595....more

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Alabama Legislature Considering Medical Marijuana Bill with Bipartisan Support

[This is the first in a series of client alerts regarding the status of medical marijuana efforts in Alabama.] Is Alabama poised to join the growing number of states allowing the use of medical marijuana under state law?...more

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New Jersey Poised to Enact First Recreational Marijuana Law Protecting Workers from Adverse Employment Action

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New Jersey’s legislature is scheduled to vote Monday, March 25, 2019 on a bill designed to legalize the recreational use of marijuana for adults over the age of 21, create a system by which marijuana and marijuana products...more

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Financial Services and the Marijuana Industry: the U.S. House Mulls Regulatory Reform for Financial Institutions and...

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Federal legislators continue to struggle over the growing disconnect between increasing State legalization of the cannabis industry, and the continued illegality of cannabis under federal law....more

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Banking Pot: How Financial Institutions Can Prepare for Changing Regulations

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History may view 2018 as a pivotal year for marijuana legalization. Although the year started with then U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions creating a haze over the industry and legalization supporters when he rescinded...more

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