On December 29, 2022, over 18 months after cannabis became legal to sell in New York State, the first retail dispensary is scheduled to open. This begs the question – should it have taken this long?

Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services recommended to the Drug Enforcement Administration that cannabis be rescheduled on the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) from a I to a III. At the ...

If Jonathan Elfand is good at anything, it’s shipping weed across borders. In the 1990s, he smuggled cannabis from Mexico by sealing it inside empty salsa cans and packing them on a truck headed to ...

Jefferson Packing House, an Oregon-based cannabis distribution company, has retracted its federal lawsuit challenging the state's ban on the interstate trade of marijuana. Launched in late 2022, ...

Welcome back to Higher Law, our weekly briefing on all things cannabis. I'm Cheryl Miller, reporting for Law.com from Sacramento. This week we're looking at: The possible release of HHS' rescheduling ...

Although Thursday’s Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act restricted the degree Congress can use the Interstate Commerce Clause, the decision’s expansion of Congress’s taxing power sets a ...

State ballot initiatives like California’s Proposition 12 threaten interstate commerce by imposing costly farm production ...

[Update 4/27 - This posting has generated an unusually vigorous and enlightening discussion in the Comments section. Recommended reading.] The argument, while plausible enough, strikes me as misguided ...