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California Cannabis: Preparing for Phase 3 Licensing in L.A. on September 3rd

By Hilary Bricken on August 20, 2019

The final countdown is on for Round 1, Phase 3 retail licensing in Los Angeles. On September 3rd at 10 a.m., the L.A. Department of Cannabis Regulation (DCR) will open the flood gates to would-be Round 1 applicants. And in its own announcements on the subject, the DCR states that it has verified over 800 social equity applicants (out of 1800 applicants that applied–though the City is continuing to process people) that will vie for…

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How YOU Can Avoid Problems when Manufacturing Overseas

By Dan Harris on August 20, 2019

Sorry, But Overseas Factory Problems are Likely YOUR Fault The genesis for this post is an excellent post written by Renaud Anjoran and a series of Linkedin comments on that post. The post is on Renauds Quality Inspection Blog and it’s called 28 Common Problems Chinese Suppliers Cause Importers. Renaud is the long-term owner of a Shenzhen-based QC+ firm (Sofeast) with whom our international manufacturing lawyers have had the pleasure of…

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An Update on California’s “Potentially Game-Changing” Proposed Hemp and CBD Laws

By Griffen Thorne on August 19, 2019

California’s legislature introduced a potentially game-changing hemp-derived cannabidiol (“Hemp CBD”) bill in January 2019: Assembly Bill 228 (“AB-228”). For those of you who aren’t familiar with AB-228, see my posts here, here, here, and here. AB-228 would change California’s anti-Hemp CBD policies, and the highlights of some of the more significant changes from the recent version are: Licensed cannabis companies wouldn’t be precluded from being in the hemp business; Hemp products…

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How to Protect Your Molds When Manufacturing Overseas

By Dan Harris on August 19, 2019

Control Your Molds Far too many companies that have their products made overseas wrongly assume they will own the molds and the accompanying IP used to make their products. If you do not pay for your molds upfront and have a contract that both works for the country in which your molds are being made and used and that makes clear the molds and their accompanying IP actually belong to you, they probably do not.…

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China Bank Accounts and Financial Records: I See Some Bad Fraud Rising

By Jonathan Bench on August 18, 2019

U.S. companies’ relationships with their Chinese business partners have been strained in the past year, and that has only accelerated the past few months, as we have noted in prior blog posts (see The US-China Trade War: What’s Next?, When Will the US-China Trade War End? It’s the New Normal, and The US-China Trade War: Next Week’s Shanghai Meeting is a Tiny Glimmer of Hope). We expect trade disputes and general business…

Canna Law Blog™

Hemp-CBD Across State Lines: Georgia

By Nathalie Bougenies on August 18, 2019

The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (“2018 Farm Bill”) legalized hemp by removing the crop and its derivatives from the definition of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) and by providing a detailed framework for the cultivation of hemp. The 2018 Farm Bill gives the US Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) regulatory authority over hemp cultivation at the federal level. In turn, states have the option to maintain primary regulatory authority over the…

China Law Blog

Eight+ Things to Read About China and Other Things, Part 14

By Dan Harris on August 17, 2019

This is the fourteenth episode in our ongoing Saturday series on eight+ things to read about China and a lot more. We constantly get emails from readers asking what to read on China and all sorts of things related and even barely related to China and this series is intended to constantly and consistently answer these questions. As we said in our initial post on this, our plan is to list out eight (or so) articles…

Canna Law Blog™

Grading the Democratic Presidential Candidates on Marijuana: Andrew Yang

By Molly Nelson on August 17, 2019

Every Saturday, we have been running a series of blog posts that take a close look at the Democratic Party candidates for President in 2020. We examine each candidate’s historic approach to marijuana law and policy, and we also canvas their current respective stances on marijuana. Over the past seven weeks, we covered Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Corey Booker and Beto O’Rourke. Today,…

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Quick Question Friday: China Law Answers, Part 83

By Dan Harris on August 16, 2019

Because of this blog, our China lawyers get a fairly steady stream of China law questions from readers, mostly via emails but occasionally via blog comments or phone calls as well. If we were to conduct research on all the questions we get asked and then comprehensively answer them, we would become overwhelmed. So we usually provide a quick general answer and, when it is easy to do so, a link or two to a…

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Four Important Considerations for Any Hemp CBD Company

By Griffen Thorne on August 16, 2019

State governments and the federal Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) take wildly different approaches when it comes to Hemp-derived cannabidiol (“Hemp CBD”), and for the most part, the ball is still in the government’s court to actually regulate hemp and Hemp CBD. The Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) haven’t issued regulations yet, states like California are still considering laws that would allow (or ban) many Hemp CBD products, and…

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California Cannabis: Preparing for Phase 3 Licensing in L.A. on September 3rd

How YOU Can Avoid Problems when Manufacturing Overseas

An Update on California’s “Potentially Game-Changing” Proposed Hemp and CBD Laws

How to Protect Your Molds When Manufacturing Overseas

China Bank Accounts and Financial Records: I See Some Bad Fraud Rising

Hemp-CBD Across State Lines: Georgia

Eight+ Things to Read About China and Other Things, Part 14

Grading the Democratic Presidential Candidates on Marijuana: Andrew Yang

Quick Question Friday: China Law Answers, Part 83

Four Important Considerations for Any Hemp CBD Company

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