Cannabis and Hemp Industry Investment News
It is always edifying getting caught up with a distributor, especially a cannabis wholesaler whose bones were built in the hardscrabble California mar...
With large cannabis companies reporting $1 billion in annual revenue and the big dispensary chains operating in more than a dozen states, it’s time to...
Law enforcement busted a massive illegal cannabis grow in Oakland last week, finding an estimated $36.9 million worth of cannabis in an unlicensed fac...
Well before cannabis businesses win a license application, they need to have traditional business plans outlining how they’ll run the company. While t...
Missouri issued 48 cannabis “microbusiness” licenses on Monday to marijuana industry entrepreneurs, expanding the state’s legal market. The state lice...
By Paul R. Hoffer A recent ruling from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) serves as an example for cannabis businesses when it comes to what ...
By Griffen Thorne, Attorney at Harris Sliwoski When Congress passed the 2018 Farm Bill, did it intend to legalize intoxicating hemp products? If it di...
Shannon O’Brien, the suspended chair of the Cannabis Control Commission, filed a lawsuit Thursday against state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, alleging t...
Opening a cannabis dispensary wasn’t always top of the list of Wassaya Iemvijan’s ambitions. The former lawyer, from the Thai capital Bangkok, first t...
Researchers are reporting that people who have been diagnosed with cannabis use disorder are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease. In researc...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A man formerly known as a powerful Michigan lawmaker was sentenced Thursday to nearly five years in federal prison for acce...
by Jeff Dingle Any business that deals with the public potentially has to deal with angry or upset people, and an encounter with such a person may lea...
By Vince Sliwoski, Principal at Harris Sliwoski, The internet is littered with writings on the relative merits of corporate forms and tax elections fo...
Los Angeles-based lawyer Hilary Bricken has officially joined Husch Blackwell, a leading business-focused law firm with 20 offices throughout the coun...
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday said he will focus on hiring a person with regulatory experience to lead the new state cannabis offic...
By Griffen Thorne, Attorney at Harris Bricken Cannabis leasing is incredibly complicated for both lessors and lessees. But things can get a lot more c...
Republican support for the cannabis banking bill is dependent on language preventing a revival of the Obama-era “Operation Choke Point.” Republicans w...
The News Many online marijuana dispensaries do not enforce age limits on purchases, and they have other lax policies that enable minors to buy cannabi...
A U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday will vote on whether to advance a bill that would allow the legal cannabis industry access to banking, an option ...
When Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 339, also known as the Texas Compassionate Use Act, into law in 2015, many Texans expressed frustra...
