This past summer, a collection of hemp companies in Charm City Hemp, LLC asked a Maryland federal court for a preliminary injunction halting aspects of Maryland’s cannabis licensing scheme (the term cannabis encompassing both recreational marijuana and hemp). Specifically, plaintiffs alleged that Maryland is wrongly requiring hemp producers to acquire a “recreational cannabis license.” That
Few areas of law have been able to expose the contradictions of federal cannabis policy quite like the Dormant Commerce Clause. The Constitution’s long-standing rule against state economic protectionism has recently found itself in the middle of cannabis licensing disputes. The result is a body of case law that is fractured, just like the state-by-state
Everything’s bigger in Texas, unless you’re talking about the medical cannabis program. It’s no secret that Texas has the potential to be a behemoth in the space, but for years, Texas’ medical cannabis program has lagged behind other states. At the same time, Texas’ booming hemp industry is fighting for survival.
Texas legislators took a
“Equal is not fair, and fair is not equal. Equal is obtainable but fair is not.”
The Montgomery County Circuit Court overseeing the launch of Alabama’s medical cannabis program has an interesting dilemma on its hands. It has previously ruled that awards to integrated facility applicants were illegal because the underlying basis of
“If we couldn’t laugh, we’d all go insane,” we were told by the late, ever so great Jimmy Buffett. So before I go into details about the Montgomery County Circuit Court order that threatens to derail Alabama’s medical cannabis program before the train leaves the station, I’m reminded of the scene from the wonderful Farrelly
There’s a great scene in the movie Wall Street when the up-and-coming Charlie Sheen (pre-Tiger Blood and now that I think about it maybe the precursor to the “winning!” mantra that seems to resonate today) is playing the role of Bud Fox, an eager trader looking to land a job with the biggest whale of
It takes a big person to admit when they are wrong. But I’ll raise my hand and say I was wrong when I predicted that the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals would rule in favor of the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission in late March or early April. That prediction was at least two weeks early
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
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
