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Budding Trends

A Cannabis Law Chronicle

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Adult-Use Cannabis

Golden Years, Green Areas: What Assisted Living Facilities Need to Do About Marijuana Rescheduling“Will Work for Weed”: Pre-Employment Marijuana Tests Are Falling Away as Positive Test Results Increase — What Employers Need to Do NowFollowing the Money: The Financial Implications of Medical Marijuana Rescheduling — Uplisting Arrives, Banking Lags

Advertising & Marketing

Well, That Didn't Take Long: Congress Wants to Call Cannabis "High-Risk" AdvertisingBudding Trends Baker’s Dozen: The Impacts of Marijuana’s ReschedulingI Guess You Could Say That: Rescheduling and the Dawn of First Amendment Protection for Medical Marijuana Advertising

Banking

The Vault Is Still Locked: A Banking Update on Cannabis ReschedulingThe Long and Winding Road: SAFE Banking Returns to Congress (Again)Following the Money: The Financial Implications of Medical Marijuana Rescheduling — Uplisting Arrives, Banking Lags

Business Operations

Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind: The Planet 13 Data Breach Lawsuit and What It Means for Cannabis Companies' Data Security PracticesCareful What You Wish For? DEA's Felony Employment Rule Presents Challenges for Newly Rescheduled Medical Marijuana OperatorsUp in Smoke: A $31.8 Million Marijuana Verdict Goes Down in Federal Appeals Court

Cannabis

Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind: The Planet 13 Data Breach Lawsuit and What It Means for Cannabis Companies' Data Security PracticesWell, That Didn't Take Long: Congress Wants to Call Cannabis "High-Risk" AdvertisingUp in Smoke: A $31.8 Million Marijuana Verdict Goes Down in Federal Appeals Court

CBD

The Greatest Trick: How a Hemp “Safety” Limit Outsources American CBD, Makes Americans Less SafeBudding Trends Baker’s Dozen: The Impacts of Marijuana’s ReschedulingWhy Next FDA Commissioner Will Have Historically Consequential Role in Cannabis and Psychedelic Policy

Featured

Alabama Medical Cannabis Application Window Is Open: [Insert Michael Scott “It’s Happening” Gif]Editors’ Roundtable: A New Biden Doctrine?Change (May) Come at Last? Biden Announces Review of Marijuana Scheduling and Mass Pardons for Simple Marijuana Possession

Federal Agencies

Hurry Up and Wait: DEA's Rescheduling Hearing Hits the Brakes Over Its Own Alleged Process GapsCareful What You Wish For? DEA's Felony Employment Rule Presents Challenges for Newly Rescheduled Medical Marijuana OperatorsInside the DEA Marijuana Rescheduling Hearing: The Five Fights That Will Decide the Case

Federal Law Developments

Hurry Up and Wait: DEA's Rescheduling Hearing Hits the Brakes Over Its Own Alleged Process GapsCareful What You Wish For? DEA's Felony Employment Rule Presents Challenges for Newly Rescheduled Medical Marijuana OperatorsUp in Smoke: A $31.8 Million Marijuana Verdict Goes Down in Federal Appeals Court

Hemp

30 Days on the Clock: What the Federal Hemp "Ban" Delay Really Means for the IndustryTwo Skeptics, One Runoff: What the South Carolina Governor’s Race Means for Medical Marijuana and Hemp in the Palmetto StateThe Greatest Trick: How a Hemp “Safety” Limit Outsources American CBD, Makes Americans Less Safe

Insurance

Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind: The Planet 13 Data Breach Lawsuit and What It Means for Cannabis Companies' Data Security PracticesGolden Years, Green Areas: What Assisted Living Facilities Need to Do About Marijuana ReschedulingBudding Trends Baker’s Dozen: The Impacts of Marijuana’s Rescheduling

Intellectual Property

Budding Trends Baker’s Dozen: The Impacts of Marijuana’s ReschedulingRescheduling and Intellectual Property: What Medical Marijuana Operators Can (and Can't) Do at the USPTO NowImpact Report: 7 Critical Cannabis Industry Blog Posts from 2025

Labor & Employment

Careful What You Wish For? DEA's Felony Employment Rule Presents Challenges for Newly Rescheduled Medical Marijuana Operators“Will Work for Weed”: Pre-Employment Marijuana Tests Are Falling Away as Positive Test Results Increase — What Employers Need to Do NowStill Grounded: Why Rescheduling Doesn’t Mean Truckers and Pilots Can Light Up

Licensing & Applications

14 Applicants, Five Licenses, and One Very Patient Judge: Where the Alabama Medical Cannabis Hearing Stands NowBama's Big Stage: Integrated Medical Cannabis Facility Hearings Finally Kick Off in TuscaloosaGolden Years, Green Areas: What Assisted Living Facilities Need to Do About Marijuana Rescheduling

Litigation

Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind: The Planet 13 Data Breach Lawsuit and What It Means for Cannabis Companies' Data Security PracticesUp in Smoke: A $31.8 Million Marijuana Verdict Goes Down in Federal Appeals CourtWhere There's Smoke, There's Liability: Courts Remind Cannabis Companies That Raising and Deploying Capital Must Be Done Compliantly

Medical Marijuana

Hurry Up and Wait: DEA's Rescheduling Hearing Hits the Brakes Over Its Own Alleged Process GapsTrouble Ahead, Trouble Behind: The Planet 13 Data Breach Lawsuit and What It Means for Cannabis Companies' Data Security PracticesCareful What You Wish For? DEA's Felony Employment Rule Presents Challenges for Newly Rescheduled Medical Marijuana Operators

Novel Cannabinoids

Impact Report: 7 Critical Cannabis Industry Blog Posts from 20252026 Cannabis Predictions: It’s Deja Vu All Over Again? Great – Just When I Discovered Consumable Hemp Products, They’re About to Be Illegal?

Psychedelics

Trip Advisor: FDA Publishes Guidance on Psychedelic Drug TrialsThe States Take the Wheel: A Roundup of Recent State Action on Psychedelics in the SouthWhat a Blanche AG Nomination Means for Marijuana and Psychedelics

Regulations/Compliance

Hurry Up and Wait: DEA's Rescheduling Hearing Hits the Brakes Over Its Own Alleged Process GapsTrouble Ahead, Trouble Behind: The Planet 13 Data Breach Lawsuit and What It Means for Cannabis Companies' Data Security PracticesCareful What You Wish For? DEA's Felony Employment Rule Presents Challenges for Newly Rescheduled Medical Marijuana Operators

State Law Developments

Careful What You Wish For? DEA's Felony Employment Rule Presents Challenges for Newly Rescheduled Medical Marijuana Operators14 Applicants, Five Licenses, and One Very Patient Judge: Where the Alabama Medical Cannabis Hearing Stands NowBama's Big Stage: Integrated Medical Cannabis Facility Hearings Finally Kick Off in Tuscaloosa

State Law Developments: Alabama

14 Applicants, Five Licenses, and One Very Patient Judge: Where the Alabama Medical Cannabis Hearing Stands NowBama's Big Stage: Integrated Medical Cannabis Facility Hearings Finally Kick Off in TuscaloosaCannabis Day: Top 10 Weed Roundup of Budding Trends’ Trendiest Blog Posts of the Year

State Law Developments: Florida

Goin’ Down South: How the Southeastern U.S. Became the Current Hotbed of Cannabis ActivityFloridians to Decide Fate of Adult-Use Marijuana This NovemberDelta-Nope: Florida Poised to Ban Delta-8 and Delta-10 Products

State Law Developments: Georgia

The States Take the Wheel: A Roundup of Recent State Action on Psychedelics in the SouthGeorgia Legislature Considering Substantial Overhaul to Medical Marijuana, Hemp LawsGoin’ Down South: How the Southeastern U.S. Became the Current Hotbed of Cannabis Activity

State Law Developments: Louisiana

The States Take the Wheel: A Roundup of Recent State Action on Psychedelics in the South

State Law Developments: Maine

Cannabis Day: Top 10 Weed Roundup of Budding Trends’ Trendiest Blog Posts of the YearHashing It Out: What the Final Chapter of the Sirois Case Teaches Us

State Law Developments: Mississippi

Careful What You Wish For? DEA's Felony Employment Rule Presents Challenges for Newly Rescheduled Medical Marijuana OperatorsThe States Take the Wheel: A Roundup of Recent State Action on Psychedelics in the SouthI Can See Clearly Now the Rain Is Gone: As Major Legislative Deadline Passes, New Laws Governing Mississippi Cannabis and Potential Ibogaine Clinical Trials Emerge

State Law Developments: North Carolina

North Carolina Governor Forms a [High] Council on CannabisJoint Effort: Why a New Crop of House Members, a New Speaker, and Continued Bipartisan Support Could Finally Light the Way for Medical Marijuana in N.C.Goin’ Down South: How the Southeastern U.S. Became the Current Hotbed of Cannabis Activity

State Law Developments: South Carolina

Two Skeptics, One Runoff: What the South Carolina Governor’s Race Means for Medical Marijuana and Hemp in the Palmetto StateGoin’ Down South: How the Southeastern U.S. Became the Current Hotbed of Cannabis ActivitySouth Carolina Clears Path for Hemp Beverages

State Law Developments: Tennessee

Goin’ Down South: How the Southeastern U.S. Became the Current Hotbed of Cannabis ActivityRocky Top Update – A Summary of the Tennessee Medical Cannabis Commission’s October MeetingDelta Great? Tennessee Legislature Passes Industry-Friendly Bill to Regulate Psychoactive, Hemp-Derived Cannabinoids

State Law Developments: Texas

The States Take the Wheel: A Roundup of Recent State Action on Psychedelics in the SouthCannabis Day: Top 10 Weed Roundup of Budding Trends’ Trendiest Blog Posts of the YearAfter Fierce Debate, Texas Chooses to Regulate, Not Prohibit, Consumable Hemp Products

State Law Developments: Virginia

I Feel Like I’m Taking Crazy Pills: Gov. Spanberger Vetoes Adult-Use Sales Law

Tax

Following the Money: The Financial Implications of Medical Marijuana Rescheduling — Uplisting Arrives, Banking LagsBudding Trends Baker’s Dozen: The Impacts of Marijuana’s ReschedulingWill States with Adult-Use Marijuana Programs See a Renewed Surge Towards Medical Programs Following Rescheduling?
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