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Buyer Beware: Five Key Due Diligence Items When Buying a Cannabis Business

Canna Law Blog

While we can’t cover everything in this blog post, below are vie key due diligence items you must understand to help protect yourself and your investment. Ensuring you conduct diligence on the five topics discussed above will help but will still likely miss important information.

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Jason Adelstone to Speak at the 2025 Cannabis Law Institute in Denver

Canna Law Blog

Topics will include international regulatory developments, U.S. Jason will join the panel “The Next Decade of Cannabis: Springboarding Forward from Initial State Regulatory Systems,” where he and fellow experts will examine the future of cannabis policy and reform.

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Colorado Continues Enforcing Intoxicating Hemp Regulations – Will More States Follow?

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Whether you’re producing consumable or topical hemp products, or selling on-line or in retail stores, your compliance strategy must account for every jurisdiction in which your products are manufacture, sold, or distributed.

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Oregon Cracks Down on THC Inflation and Testing Labs

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The latest noise around testing was the aspergillus litigation , where the Cannabis Industry Alliance of Oregon (CIAO) won a temporary stay of enforcement on testing for that mold, and OHA abandoned rules on the topic. In 2023, we also got House Bill 2931 , which creates a state-run cannabis reference lab.

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The Very Large and Vexing Lawsuit Re: Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome

Canna Law Blog

Here, too, is a 2025 National Library of Medicine journal abstract on the topic, with a similar definitional and etiological take, and adding this noteworthy fact: “Although considered rare, there has been a steady increase in CHS diagnoses.” Interestingly, the latter source observes that “little is known about the cause of this syndrome.”

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Lights, Camera, Cannabis: Why Hollywood Holds the Key to Normalization

Canna Law Blog

What’s missing are the real faces of modern cannabis use—doctors managing chronic pain, veterans using cannabis to treat PTSD, working parents choosing a tincture over a cocktail, or elderly patients managing arthritis with topicals. Unlike alcohol and tobacco, cannabis doesn’t need Hollywood to make it cool or aspirational.

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Oregon’s Hot Hemp

Canna Law Blog

That sexy topic dominated the headlines. That proved to be the case in my experience, including with respect to OLCC I ended up writing them on September 30 after stumbling across incorrect FAQs on the topic. Lets see if anything changes with the publication of this preliminary report and further rulemaking around the topic.

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