Canna Law Blog

MAY 20, 2019

Back on March 1, I ran through a legislative forecast and report for Oregon cannabis in 2019. As we move into the home stretch of the 2019 session, each issue has been bandied about: some are close to passage and others have died. Below is a rundown of the state of each topic and some thoughts on the general scene. Off-work Use.

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Canna Law Blog

MARCH 1, 2019

At this point, over a month into the 2019 session, a preponderance of legislators appear vaguely inclined to “let it ride” and drop the big ideas when it comes to cannabis. Given the foregoing, this blog post is not going to examine the draft bills in detail (if you’re interested in doing that yourself, they are available here ).

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 29, 2019

California’s Cannabis Advisory Committee (CAC) was scheduled to meet on March 27 for its first meeting of 2019. This begs the question of what topics the CAC should cover in their upcoming quarterly meetings. Stay tuned — or even better, get involved — to see where the CAC wields its power in 2019. .

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Canna Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2020

Hemp CBD topicals represent a significant percentage of the booming CBD market. According to an August 2019 report released by Grand View Research, Inc., Add to that the issue of adulteration and the sad reality that many CBD topicals–and CBD products, generally –contain dangerous substances.

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Cannabis Life Network

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The news that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau performed in blackface when he was a student and a teacher has once again made blackface the topic of the day — this time in the middle of a Canadian election campaign.

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Griffen’s article is just one of many parsing the language of the 2018 Farm Bill and a 2023 DEA letter on the topic. When Oregon adopted that standard in 2019, it seemed to fly under the radar, though we did our best to publicize it here on the blog. Oregon was the first state to sign a marijuana export bill back in 2019.

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Canna Law Blog

APRIL 2, 2019

On April 2, 2019, the federal Food & Drug Administration (“FDA”) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb issued a press release on hemp and hemp-derived cannabidiol (“Hemp CBD”). During this time, the FDA has apparently been scrambling to figure out what to do about Hemp CBD (which you can read about here and here ).

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

36% of adults said they have had difficulty sleeping because of stress and worry about COVID-19; And 30% more adults this year had anxiety/depressive disorder compared to 2019.*. Perez Hilton is a blogger, columnist, and media personality known for his blog covering relevant topics on celebrities.

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Canna Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2020

As I wrote in a prior blog post , Utah’s cannabis market has special characteristics that you are unlikely to find in other states. Overall, 2019 was a banner year for Utah’s cannabis marketplaces as it ramped up for 2020. Here’s the overview on 2019 and looking forward in 2020. Medical Cannabis.

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Cannabis Life Network

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Cannabis edibles, topicals, shatters, and vape pens have slowly begun to roll out in Canada, known as Legalization 2.0. This second stage of legalization officially began on October 18, 2019, when producers started applying various products for approval.

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Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In that respect, Initiative 81 is similar to Measure 301, which passed in Denver, Colorado in 2019 and other measures passed in Santa Cruz and Oakland, California and Ann Arbor, Michigan. For more on the use of psychedelics for religious purposes, on that topic, see this excellent article by my colleague, Griffen Thorne, and this one.

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Canna Law Blog

MAY 7, 2024

However, with social equity becoming a prominent topic in the cannabis industry, California officials have started investing significantly in social equity policies. Proposition 64, passed a few years later, lacked any discussion addressing the damage caused by past policies.

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Canna Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2020

Hemp CBD topicals represent a significant percentage of the booming CBD market. According to an August 2019 report released by Grand View Research, Inc., Add to that the issue of adulteration and the sad reality that many CBD topicals–and CBD products, generally –contain dangerous substances.

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Otherside Farms

DECEMBER 26, 2019

December 18, 2019 The effort to help make recreational Cannabis legal in 50 states is a righteous challenge, one that experts agree education and easy access to related information can only help. “We Finding quality information about nearly every Cannabis subject possible will soon be much easier.

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Canna Law Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

To better inform and educate our clients, readers of this blog, and those interested in hemp cultivation and/or production of hemp products, including hemp-CBD, we’ll be hosting a free webinar on Thursday, November 14, 2019 from noon PT to 1 p.m.

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Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2020

As we wrote back in early 2019, the prohibition on interference ONLY applied to hemp cultivated under the 2018 Farm Bill. To be fair, the USDA did issue an opinion in mid-2019 that stated that states/tribes could not prohibit the interstate transport of hemp produced under the 2014 Farm Bill. appeared first on Harris Bricken.

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Canna Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

HB 2019 – Marijuana tax transfer. More interestingly, HB 2019 attempts to re-allocate funds to counties around the state, based upon the “volume of marijuana produced, processed and sold at wholesale and retails” in each. If you’d like to read more on this scintillating topic, go here. HB 2517 – Hiring agreement exemption.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 24, 2019

On June 20, 2019, the U.S. Irina has advised clients on topics ranging from obtaining state-level licenses in multiple jurisdictions to appropriate internal policies and procedures. Irina also frequently writes on cannabis-industry topics, and is a co-editor of the Firm’s cannabis law blog.

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Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2019

on a dry weight basis and that is grown or possessed by a licensed grower in compliance with this chapter” and “ includes agricultural commodities and products derived from hemp and topical or ingestible consumer products, including food, food additives and food products derived from hemp.” 459 in March 27, 2019. Emphasis added).

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Canna Law Blog

JANUARY 29, 2019

If you are a hemp CBD business, have interest in the industry or are interested in the state and future of hemp CBD legality, please join us on February 21, 2019 at noon (PST) for the latest installment in our lunchtime webinar series entitled “West Coast Hemp CBD After the Farm Bill.”. the Food and Drug Administration’s role in hemp CBD.

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Canna Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We have also handled a good bit of hemp banking work – mostly in 2019 and 2020 before that industry cratered. It’s also not defined in the 2020 National Credit Union Administration Guidance on banking hemp-related business (“HRB”s) (which we helped create) or the 2020 FinCEN Guidance on that related topic.

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Canna Law Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

To better inform and educate our clients, readers of this blog, and those interested in hemp cultivation and/or production of hemp products, including hemp-CBD, we’ll be hosting a free webinar on Thursday, November 14, 2019 from noon PT to 1 p.m.

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Canna Law Blog

JULY 12, 2020

Here is a report from Penn Medicine back in 2017 on this same topic. In November 2019, Leafly compiled a ton of data on the inaccurate labels of many CBD products. It was true in 2018, 2019, and probably in 2020 too. That fact has been well established. The FDA needs to get its act together on CBD.

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Cannabis Life Network

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Legalization 2.0 – the most exciting time of 2019, for cannabis producers. Applications will be sent in for the approval of new edibles, topicals, and concentrates. Consumers will have to wait at least two months to share the same excitement, but out of all of it, one piece seems to have been forgotten. Seeds and […].

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Canna Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

On December 4, 2019, at 12:30 PM, Harris Bricken attorney Daniel Shortt and Cascadia Intellectual Property attorney Krista Wittman will be presenting at a seminar put on by the Washington State Bar Association’s International Practice Section titled “ U.S. ICMYI: Cannabis Edibles, Extracts, and Topicals Are Now Legal in Canada.

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Canna Law Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

On November 20th, our own Alison Malsbury will lead a presentation on CBD & Cosmetics at the 2019 Emerging Issues Conference in Marina del Rey, California. Her presentation will focus on the contentious landscape of hemp and CBD topical products, which she has most recently written about here and here. We hope to see you there!

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Canna Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

with bipartisan support since 2019. Even if this bill gets out of Committee, it would need a floor vote, and then reconciliation with whatever the House is thinking on the topic. I’m pretty sure that more ink has been spilled on the Secure and Fair Enforcement Act (“SAFE Banking”), than any other proposed cannabis law.

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Canna Law Blog

MARCH 19, 2019

Those posts, however, were more geared towards the manufacture and sale of hemp-derived cannabidiol (“Hemp CBD”) products than the actual cultivation of hemp, which is becoming an increasingly important topic in the hemp industry in the wake of the federal Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (or “2018 Farm Bill”).

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If you are a hemp-CBD business, have interest in the industry or are interested in the state and future of hemp-CBD legality, please join us tomorrow, February 21, 2019 at noon (PST) for the latest installment in our lunchtime webinar series. This session is entitled “West Coast Hemp-CBD After the Farm Bill.”.

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Canna Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

If this topic is of interest, you can read more about it here. That clause prohibits states from enacting legislation that discriminates against or excessively burdens interstate commerce, and regulates conduct occurring beyond their borders without some adequate localized justification.

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Canna Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

This two-day CLE will take place in Napa California covering a broad range of winery related topics, seeking to arm businesses with up-to-date information from industry pioneers. Recreational cannabis is the newest industry affected by the strict land use regulations that state and local Californian governments set in place.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Young & Craig Simonsen on October 15, 2019. We had previously blogged on The Stoned Age: What the CBD Craze Means for Employers and Their Substance Abuse Policies , CBD is Everywhere – But Where Does the FDA Stand? , CBD: Uncertainty for Restaurants and Retailers , and FDA: 1% CBD OK. By Jennifer Mora , Adam R.

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Canna Law Blog

JUNE 14, 2019

Our cannabis lawyers frequently write and speak on these and related topics. The parties entered into a contract in March 2019 to farm and cultivate industrial hemp for the 2019 season that included, at Jupiter’s option, the 2020 and 2021 seasons. A couple of my recent posts have highlighted litigation arising after harvest.

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Canna Law Blog

JUNE 7, 2019

On June 19, 2019, at 1:30 PST, the Washington State Bar Association’s Cannabis Law Section will be presenting an online CLE on hemp. We’ll cover a host of topics, but will start with the 2014 Farm Bill, which first allowed for the legal cultivation of industrial hemp for research purposes. You can register to join us here.

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Canna Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2019

If you are a WSLCB licensed cannabis business with employees, please join us at noon (PST) on January 29, 2019 for the second of our lunchtime employment law webinar series. Topics will include: Washington’s Sick Leave Laws. Washington’s Ban-the-Box Regulation.

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Canna Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

Here and there, a bankruptcy court will break away in very limited and specific scenarios, like when the Ninth Circuit confirmed a plan of reorganization for a group of cannabis-adjacent real estate companies in 2019 (see that post here ). It should be noted that the Trustee did file an appeal of the decision on January 9, 2023.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 2, 2019

The FDA sent the warning letters, which the FTC co-signed, on March 28, 2019. You can learn more about consumer topics and file a consumer complaint online or by calling 1-877-FTC-HELP (382-4357). You can learn more about consumer topics and file a consumer complaint online or by calling 1-877-FTC-HELP (382-4357).

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