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Cannabis Banking
106 published works
Budding Trends
The Vault Is Still Locked: A Banking Update on Cannabis Rescheduling
There's a scene near the end of every heist movie where the crew finally cracks the vault and it's empty. Somebody already got there first, or the money was never…
Budding Trends
Will the Marijuana Industry’s Access to Banking and Capital Markets Expand with Rescheduling?
This is the third of 13 posts describing the impacts of marijuana’s rescheduling. An homage to Phish’s historic run at Madison Square Garden in the Summer of 2017, Budding Trends…
The Blunt Truth®
The Week in Weed: September 6, 2024
By Susan Ryan
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what's happening in the world of legalized marijuana. First, we have an update on the Missouri rules dealing with…
Green Leaf Brief
Marijuana Reclassification Impacts Bank Servicing of Businesses
By Aaron P. Kouhoupt, McGlinchey
The Department of Justice’s move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, on which it began formal proceedings on May 16, won’t legalize state-level adult-use and medical marijuana unless it’s produced,…
The Blunt Truth®
The Week in Weed: March 29, 2024
By Susan Ryan
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what's happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, we see Janet Yellen expressing support for the SAFE…
Canna Law Blog
Banking for Cannabis Growers
If you own a cannabis business, a major consideration is where to keep your money. Though many business owners may find banking to be a headache regardless of industry, few…
Cannabis Law Blog
Cannabis Banking Bill Faces Challenges as 2023 Ends, Hopes for Passage in 2024
By Tim Trunzo
In 2023, historic strides were made in the efforts to pass federal legislation to protect financial institutions that do business with the cannabis industry. The SAFE Banking Act is a…
Cannabis Law Now
Cannabis Banking: What’s a Financial Institution to Do Right Now?
By Former Attorney Hilary Bricken
When I started representing cannabis businesses in 2010, the biggest epidemic in the industry next to I.R.C. 280E was the overwhelming lack of cannabis banking. This inability to access financial…
Canna Law Blog
Cannabis Banking Today
We are helping build out another marijuana banking program here in Oregon. My law firm has done a series of these for credit unions (“CU”s) and other financial institutions (“FIs”)…
Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor
Chronic Payments: Unraveling the Complexities of Cannabis Banking
By Keith J. Barnett, Carlin McCrory, Jean Smith-Gonnell, Agustin Rodriguez
In the latest episode of Payments Pros, hosts Keith Barnett and Carlin McCrory are joined by Jean Gonnell and Agustin Rodriguez, co-leaders of Troutman Pepper’s Cannabis practice, to discuss the…