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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. Obviously, the big news this week is federal rescheduling. But that’s not all! We have an update on the situation in...more
On January 27, 2026, the FTC held a half-day workshop entitled “Moving Forward: Protecting Workers from Anticompetitive Noncompete Agreements.” At the outset, Chairman Andrew Ferguson explained that he disagreed with the 2024...more
Non-competes (contractual provisions that restrict employees from working for competitors after leaving a job) are facing increased criticism from courts and regulators in the United States. This heightened scrutiny...more
President Trump’s new Executive Order (EO) is historic, not only because it directs the rescheduling of cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III, but because it also directs Congress to revise the “hemp ban” language in the...more
Key Takeaways: FTC to revisit a national non-compete ban: The FTC will host a Jan. 27, 2026 workshop as it restarts efforts to regulate or potentially ban most non-competition agreements nationwide....more
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, we check in on developments in Nebraska. The Congressional Research Service releases a report on the...more
Seven years after the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill and the ensuing proliferation of hemp-derived products, Congress has fundamentally rewritten the rules. On November 12, 2025, Congress passed–and the President signed into...more
In October, Congress and the President were unable to agree on several funding bills, which resulted in a “lapse in federal appropriations,” known to most of us as a “government shutdown.”...more
The President signed into law the government funding package that includes a sweeping amendment redefining “hemp” and imposing a 0.4 mg total THC limit per finished product. ...more
As reported in MJBizDaily, President Trump signed legislation on Nov. 12th, that effectively bans most consumable hemp-derived THC products nationwide. The provision was included in the spending bill that ended the historic...more
In the last few weeks, the hemp industry has faced an existential crisis in the form of a ban contained in the Fiscal Year 2026 Agriculture Appropriations bill (the “Bill”). Proponents of consumable hemp products say that the...more
On November 12, 2025, legislation was enacted to end the longest government shutdown in the history of the U.S. While the government is open and operational, the passage of the reopening bill has sent shockwaves through the...more
The United States Senate passed a funding package, intended to end the government shutdown. Included in that package is an important provision to close a loophole in the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (aka the 2018 Farm...more
For years, the conversation around health insurer consolidation and vertical integration has simmered through antitrust inquiries, oversight hearings, and policy papers. The Patients Over Profit Act (the “POP Act”),...more
The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (the 2018 Farm Bill) legalized industrial hemp for commercial use to support American farmers and create a regulated industrial hemp market. The 2018 Farm Bill defined “hemp” as “the...more
When the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed its nationwide ban on most noncompete provisions in January of 2023, it sent shockwaves through the business community. As the ban worked its way through the rulemaking...more
In August 2024, a Texas federal court struck down a broad Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule that would have banned the vast majority of employee non-competition agreements. ...more
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, the big news is that Delaware’s retail market has opened. There are problems with dispensary locations in...more
A group of 16 Democratic AGs withdrew their motion for a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit challenging a decision by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to redistribute thousands of previously...more
On July 1, 2025, the U.S. Senate nearly unanimously voted to remove a proposed ten-year ban that sought to restrict states and municipalities from enacting or enforcing laws and regulations related to artificial intelligence...more
A group of seven Democratic AGs, through the Consortium of Privacy Regulators, sent a letter to U.S. Senate leadership opposing a federal ban against state-level regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems....more
Last week, Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Todd Young (R-IN) reintroduced the Workforce Mobility Act, which was previously considered by Congress in 2023. The reintroduction of the bi-partisan bill comes against the backdrop...more
The FTC’s noncompete rule, which proposed to ban nearly all noncompetes, was enjoined by a Texas District Court in August 2024. While the FTC has launched a Joint Labor Task Force focused on “rooting out and prosecuting...more
Late Sunday, May 11, 2025, the House Energy and Commerce Committee released markup text for the forthcoming reconciliation bill. The legislation, referred to by President Trump as “One Big Beautiful Bill” (or as a friend...more
Within the last two months, both the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the armed services have followed Trump Administration directives to narrow or eliminate protections for transgender individuals....more