As you might have guessed from the title of this post, we are returning to cover new developments in the United States v. Sirois case. A few months ago, the First Circuit released an opinion that we discussed in an earlier post. As we predicted, the Rohrabacher-Farr issues have reappeared, with the Defendants in
Well, it’s officially crazy season. An annual tradition in the Alabama statehouse since the inception of Alabama’s medical cannabis program, last week we saw a flurry of cannabis-related bills introduced with great fanfare and the accompanying panic amongst cannabis stakeholders in Alabama. I was inundated with a high volume of calls, texts, and emails unseen
Ronald Reagan famously asked voters, on the eve of the 1980 presidential election, to ask themselves whether they were better off than they were four years ago. It was a powerful question that asked Americans to take stock of how they saw their lives at that time versus four years before.
When it occurred to
I feel I never told you
The story of the ghost
To paraphrase the legendary Dave Chapelle, in the midst of impersonating Rick James, “cannabis is a hell of a drug.” Thankfully I don’t mean that in the same sense as Mr. Chapelle/James did. I mean that marijuana and its relatively newly defined sister plant
If you haven’t seen Ted Lasso, you need to do that immediately (after reading this). In the final episode of the first season, Ted Lasso – an American football coach hired, for reasons that don’t matter here, to coach an English football team – who is played exquisitely by an endearing Jason Sudeikis –
What if I told you that you could get a license to test medical cannabis in Alabama this July? Now is that something you might be interested in?
Lost amidst the torrent of confusing messages and general circus surrounding Alabama’s medical cannabis rollout is that the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission has actually issued licenses to
For the hemp industry, it appears the beatings will continue until morale improves. Following the lead of a number of other states in recent years, the Alabama Legislature is set to consider a measure that would eliminate essentially all non-industrial hemp in the state.
Meet Alabama Senate Bill 132. This proposal, in its current form
Advocates and stakeholders in the medical cannabis world of Alabama are desperate. And as it is so often when we are faced with a desperate situation, we make well-intentioned but ultimately flawed decisions.
Alabama Senate Bill 72 dropped last week. It would, among other things, (1) expand the total number of integrated licenses from five
Anyone who thought that the momentum towards federal liberalization of marijuana would be a straight line found themselves with a cold dash of water to the face. Late last week Republican senators filed a bill, entitled the “No Deductions for Marijuana Businesses Act,” which would preserve a punitive federal tax policy that bars cannabis