First, thanks so much to my friend and Mexico City attorney Elias Lisbona Jassán of Perez Ferrer Abogados, who co-authored this piece with me. To answer the question in the headline, I think the legal term is “sort of.” This topic, of course, is important not...
The sun is shining, folks are figuring out what socially distant Memorial Day will look like (burgers and masks?), and many states are beginning to reopen while at the same time the COVID-19 death numbers continue to rise. It remains a very uncertain time for...
Last week, the New York City Council overwhelmingly approved a new local law to prohibit city employers from testing potential employees for marijuana use. This weekend Mayor Bill de Blasio indicated he will sign the bill. There are certain exceptions, permitting marijuana testing for police,...
On Tuesday, NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo released draft adult use cannabis legislation. Called the Cannabis Regulation and Taxation Act (CRTA- which we've decided to pronounce KUR-TA as opposed to sounding like the bed company Serta), it is just a few hundred pages long. Here are...
Updated 1:03 PM following release of bill text. On the White House lawn this morning, getting ready to leave for the G-7 summit in Canada, Pres. Trump made positive comments about the cannabis bill introduced yesterday by Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). The...
Updated 6/8/2017 following release of bill text: Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) today introduced the Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States (STATES) Act. While we have not seen the text yet, Sen. Warren has published a summary. The bill would amend the Controlled...
As more and more politicians of all stripes move towards support of federal legalization of cannabis, two senior Republicans have joined the advisory board of a major cannabis company. According to The Hill, the former Speaker of the House John Boehner and former Massachusetts Governor William...
An Israeli peer-reviewed study, just published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine, reports that pain and nausea of cancer patients can be lessened through the use of medical cannabis. The study included thousands of cancer patients using medical cannabis between 2015 and 2017. Over...
As discussed previously here, on January 4, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded all prior advisory memos on prosecutorial priorities relating to cannabis, including the 2014 Cole Memo which many relied on in entering the space. One consequence of rescinding the Cole Memo is its effect...
According to the Marijuana Business Daily, a Quebec-based producer of medical cannabis has joined a New York medical cannabis licensee in obtaining certification of their products as kosher under Jewish dietary laws. This means that more observant Jews, who seek to restrict their diets to kosher...