Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, we see Congress working on both a new hemp bill and legislation to protect insurers. Rhode Island is getting
Bridget J. Crawford (Pace University School of Law) & Yeewen New (New York University) recently published The Deliberative Trustee, 2026. Provided below is the Abstract:
A transgender woman asks the trustee of a long-term discretionary trust to recognize her
Harris Sliwoski Names Fred Rocafort and Jason Adelstone Partners
Harris Sliwoski has named Fred Rocafort and Jason Adelstone partners. Fred has played a central role in building the firm’s U.S. and international intellectual property and Latin America practices, while Jason
On February 23, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to resolve a growing disagreement among federal appeals courts; that is, whether states may afford preferences to in-state residents under their cannabis laws and regulations. The case, Jensen v. Maryland Cannabis
What California operators must do after rescheduling: DEA registration, license restructuring, and 280E
On April 23, 2026, the DOJ and DEA issued a final order rescheduling certain marijuana products from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act.
While most attention has focused on the recently concluded marijuana rescheduling hearing, an equally significant legal battle has unfolded in the D.C. Circuit over the final rescheduling order (“Final Order”). Petitioners, the Department of Justice, newly intervening parties, and
If you’ve been following Alabama’s medical cannabis saga, you know the state has mastered a very particular genre of drama: license gets awarded, license gets sued, license gets stayed, repeat. Well, the next chapter starts Monday, July 27, 2026, at
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, lawmakers introduced a new federal legalization bill. Idaho cannabis supporters were not able to get an initiative on the
When I first met Martin Jelsma (retiring as Programme Director Drugs & Democracy at the Transnational Institute) in 2019, I was a law clerk who, from day one, began following developments in international cannabis policy. At the time, I
