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Cannabis Legal Report – September 2023

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New York State Regulators Approve Final Adult-Use Regulations as Judge Bars New York State From Issuing New Cannabis Licenses - On September 12, state regulators approved final adult-use regulations and set October 4 as...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Six Things You Need to Know About CBD and Other Hemp-containing Pet Products

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The trend toward state-level legalization of cannabis has led to a surge in cannabis-derived products and a continually evolving market with many types of cannabis products for people as well as their pets. Analysts predict...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

California Breaks New Ground With OCal: Answers to Key Questions About “Comparable-to-Organic” Cannabis

California’s comparable-to-organic “OCal” certification program for cannabis and nonmanufactured cannabis products officially went into effect on July 14, 2021. The OCal program represents a new branch of state cannabis...more

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Massachusetts Cannabis Retailers Can Now Sell Hemp Products: What Retailers Need To Know

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The Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission recently voted to issue Guidance for the Retail Sale of Hemp to clarify requirements and restrictions on the retail sale of certain types of hemp products by licensed adult-use...more

McGuireWoods Consulting

North Carolina General Assembly Week in Review - May 2021 #2

It is official: the legislature has officially passed the self-imposed crossover deadline. The deadline is an attempt to narrow down the number of bills eligible for consideration throughout the remainder of the legislative...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Hemp: Challenges and Opportunities in a Budding Industry

On May 12, Schwabe collaborated with Moss Adams to host a virtual roundtable that explored legal realities around owning and operating a hemp business in Oregon. Schwabe attorneys Lisa Schaures and Joe Hobson were joined by...more

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Pet Store Sourcing Bans Do Nothing To Help Dogs Or People Searching For Life-long Pets

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The plethora of laws banning or limiting sales of dogs from pet stores to families seeking a dog for long term companionship, purportedly passed to shutter puppy mills, have done nothing to improve the lives of dogs bred and...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Residential Evictions: What Homeowners Need To Know - UPDATED March 2021

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REMOVALS- Can I be removed from my home as a result of a foreclosure proceeding during the COVID-19 emergency? No. On March 19, 2020, New Jersey Governor Philip Murphy issued Executive Order 106, which suspended...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The Week in Weed: September 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....more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

West Virginia Foreclosures in the Age of Corona

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Economic turmoil brought on by the coronavirus pandemic has created much concern about a potential rise in residential foreclosures. On August 5, 2020, Governor Jim Justice followed his presentation on school reopening...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Federal Agencies Extend Moratoriums Through the End of 2020

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Two federal enterprises who purchase and securitize mortgages, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, along with three federal agencies who make, guarantee, and insure mortgage loans, the Department of Housing and Urban Development...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

11 Legal Considerations When Starting a Hemp Business in Mississippi

Now that Mississippi has enacted legislation legalizing the cultivation of hemp, you want to start a hemp company. You have your big idea and a business plan ready, but you begin to wonder whether you should be thinking about...more

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Foreclosure and Receiver Issues in the United States during COVID-19

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The following memorandum provides an overview of the responses of courts and local and state governments of certain jurisdictions, as well as of the federal government, to the COVID-19 outbreak. The analysis has a particular...more

Alston & Bird

Federal and State Guidance Regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic

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A&B Abstract: The Alston & Bird Consumer Finance team recognizes that this is a period of great uncertainty both for the nation and our clients....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Here We Go: USDA Approves First Round of State and Tribal Hemp Plans - Cannabis Industry News Alert

On December 27, just two months after issuing its long-awaited interim hemp rule, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved the first round of state and tribal hemp production plans. Pursuant to the 2018...more

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Part 3: United States Department Of Agriculture Publishes Interim Final Rule On Domestic Hemp Production

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Part III - This article is the third in a three-part series discussing the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Interim Final Rule on the establishment of a domestic hemp production program recently published in...more

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Part 2: United States Department of Agriculture Publishes Interim Final Rule on Domestic Hemp Production

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Part II - This article is the second in a three-part series discussing the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Interim Final Rule on the establishment of a domestic hemp production program recently published...more

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Part 1: United States Department of Agriculture Publishes Interim Final Rule on Domestic Hemp Production

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Part I - On Thursday, October 31, 2019, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agriculture Marketing Service (AMS) published an interim final rule (Rule) on domestic hemp production in the Federal Register....more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Key Takeaways from USDA’s Interim Hemp Production Rule

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On October 31, 2019 the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published an Interim Final Rule (84 FR 58522) establishing the U.S. Domestic Hemp Production Program and outlining a regulatory framework for monitoring hemp...more

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USDA Issues Interim Final Rule to Establish Domestic Hemp Production Program and Approve State and Tribal Oversight Plans

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Effective upon Publication, USDA’s Interim Final Rule Sets Forth One Important Part of the Regime for Marketing Hemp Products in the United States - This week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued an interim...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

BREAKING NEWS: USDA Releases Interim Final Hemp Rule

On October 29, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its long-awaited interim final rule governing the U.S. Domestic Hemp Production Program. USDA has been developing these interim regulations since hemp...more

Cozen O'Connor

The State AG Report Weekly Update September 2019 #4

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Cannabis/Marijuana- Bipartisan Coalition of 21 Attorneys General Pen Letter to Congress in Support of Cannabis Banking Bill- A bipartisan coalition of 21 AGs, led by District of Columbia AG Karl Racine, sent a letter to...more

Genova Burns LLC

The ABC's of CBD Regulation

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“Isn’t hemp the same thing as cannabis (marijuana)?” The difference between cannabis and hemp stem from their most widely studied and commonly known chemical compounds: tetrahydrocannabinol (“THC”) and cannabidiol (“CBD”)....more

Lathrop GPM

America's Growing Embrace of Cannabis

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The laws and regulations of the U.S. and each individual state are evolving at a significant pace concerning one genus of flowering plants, and mostly with a tender embrace. Despite being criminalized for the greater part...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

MVA Monitor - June 2019 #2

The legislative pace has picked up a bit in Raleigh, with committees taking up more legislation than in the last few weeks. On the other hand, with a new fiscal year just over two weeks away, budget negotiations between the...more

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