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Budding Trends
Power Play or Fair Play? 21 Attorneys General Call for Prohibition of Intoxicating Hemp as Industry Faces Existential Threat
The novel cannabinoid industry took another hit recently as a bipartisan group of 21 attorneys general urged Congress to make clear that states may regulate, and even prohibit, intoxicating products…
Health Industry Washington Watch
The FDA’s Continued Search for a Legal Pathway for CBD Products
By Elliott Race
Elliott is a law clerk at the firm and his work is supervised by licensed attorneys. His admission to the New York bar is pending. During a hearing before the…
Green Leaf Brief
Texas Politicians Take Aim at Hemp-Derived THC
On April 11, 2024, Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick released his 2024 Interim Legislative Charges. This list indicates his goals for the upcoming legislative session, and among his priorities ahead…
State AG Blog
State AG Updates: March 21-27, 2024
Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates. Multistate A bipartisan coalition of 21 state attorneys…
Budding Trends
Will Hemp Save the World, Before the Government Kills It?
There is a great line in the wonderful film Charlie Wilson’s War, where Charlie Wilson (played remarkably by the inimitable Tom Hanks) describes the successful, if relatively covert, involvement of…
Kight on Cannabis
Rod Goes Deep About the Future of Hemp and Cannabis on the Cole Memo [Video Podcast]
By Rod Kight
I discuss the past, present, and future of hemp and cannabis policy on a recent episode of the Cole Memo Podcast. I was asked a range of good questions about…
Regulatory Oversight
21 State AGs Call on Congress to Regulate Intoxicating Hemp Products
By Jean Smith-Gonnell, Michael Lafleur
Attorneys general (AG) from 20 states and the District of Columbia have submitted a letter to Congress requesting that federal lawmakers close the "loophole" created by the 2018 Farm Bill…
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…
Budding Trends
Texas Regulators to Consider Changes to Consumable Hemp Program
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission, on behalf of the Texas Department of State Health Services, recently announced that it was accepting public comments to the current rules governing…
Kight on Cannabis
State AGs Inflame Hemp Hysteria With Letter to Congress
By Rod Kight
There is a war raging against hemp, but it goes much deeper than that. At stake is the future of cannabis reform in the US, the ability for small businesses…