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CVS Settlement: How a Pharmacist Whistleblower Exposed Fraud
The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) recently announced a $315 million settlement with CVS resolving allegations that CVS knowingly filled prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances in violation of the…
Libation Law Blog
Hello Farms Seeks Rehearing Over the Sixth Circuit’s Cannabis Contract Escape Route
When we wrote about the Sixth Circuit’s cannabis contract decision last month, the concern was what the decision allowed a buyer to accomplish: enter a licensed commercial transaction, abandon its…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Marijuana Rescheduling Temporarily Paused
By By M. Tae Phillips, Michael S. O'Malley, Publisher, Jennifer L. Pacicco
Quick Hits The DEA’s chief administrative law judge stayed marijuana rescheduling proceedings to consider adding a new GAO drug scheduling report to the hearing record and permit supplemental briefings concerning…
Thompson Coburn LLP
Hello Farms, Goodbye $32 Million: Will Your Cannabis Contract Survive Federal Court?
The Sixth Circuit has wiped out a $31.8 million jury verdict that Hello Farms, a licensed Michigan cultivator, had won against Curaleaf subsidiaries for walking away from a supply contract.…
Canna Law Blog
Cannabis and the Midterm Elections
The midterms are less than a month away, with elections mostly scheduled for November 3, 2026. Cannabis reform is on the table both directly and indirectly, at the federal, state…
Regulatory Oversight
Pending Marijuana Rescheduling Put on Hold
By Agustin Rodriguez, Zie Alere
In late September, the chief administrative law judge (ALJ) at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Derek C. Julius, paused the pending rulemaking proceedings to reschedule all marijuana to Schedule III.…
Canna Law Blog
"Marijuana" Rescheduling Delayed, Again. What It Could Mean, and What Comes Next
What just happened in the marijuana rescheduling hearing On September 28, 2026, three participants in the ALJ marijuana rescheduling hearing filed a “Joint Motion for Leave to File Supplemental Briefing,…
Budding Trends
Hurry Up and Wait: DEA’s Rescheduling Hearing Hits the Brakes Over Its Own Alleged Process Gaps
By Whitt Steineker, Slates C. Veazey
As usual, Tom Petty was spot on when he sang, “the waiting is the hardest part.” Marijuana rescheduling has tested that proposition all year, and this week it was retested.…
Canna Law Blog
DEA Enforcement in a Changing Cannabis Landscape: Rescheduling, Hemp, and What Comes Next
Join us on October 8, 2026, for DEA Enforcement in a Changing Cannabis Landscape: Rescheduling, Hemp, and What Comes Next, a free webinar examining what the evolving federal cannabis landscape…
Thompson Coburn LLP
Michael Rosenblum, Jake Schwartz Examine Bankruptcy Landscape for Cannabis Businesses
In a recent Law360 article, Thompson Coburn partners Michael Rosenblum and Jake Schwartz examined the evolving question of whether cannabis-related businesses can access bankruptcy protection. While cannabis’s status as a…