It’s been a minute since we wrote about the new OLCC tax compliance rules for retailers. These temporary rules require all retailers to certify tax compliance via the Oregon Department of Revenue (DOR) in order to renew or transfer ownership of a marijuana retailer license. OLCC has a pretty good FAQ sheet here, as part
Estoy bastante seguro de que se ha escrito más sobre la Ley de Aplicación Segura y Justa («SAFE Banking») que sobre cualquier otra propuesta de ley sobre el cannabis. Simplemente no acaba de aprobarse, pero tampoco desaparece. Concretamente, la SAFE Banking se presentó en 2017 y ha sido aprobada por la Cámara de Representantes en siete ocasiones (¡siete veces!) con apoyo bipartidista desde 2019. La
On September 14, 2023, Special Counsel David Weiss of the Department of Justice filed an indictment against Robert Hunter Biden in the District of Delaware. The indictment pleads three counts, which I analyze below. The Hunter Biden indictment centers on issues I've analyzed in many posts this year (see links at the bottom). Today I
New York's Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) requires anyone applying for a retail dispensary or on-site consumption license to submit a notice of their intention to apply to the municipality (or community board in New York City) at least 30 days prior to submitting the application. The Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) and Cannabis
The wait is (almost) over! During the September 12, 2023 Cannabis Control Board (CCB) meeting, the CCB announced that New York's full, adult-use cannabis license application portal will open on October 4, 2023. The CCB meeting covered a number of other important topics, but we'll save those for another post. For anyone planning on applying
Major banks like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, as well as landlords such as BentallGreenOak and Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp., have found themselves indirectly involved with New York City's unlicensed cannabis dispensaries, potentially exposing them to legal issues. This situation arises due to the proliferation of unlicensed retail shops in the city, with as many as
Over the last several months there has been a lot going on in New York's cannabis world, with the "highlights" being litigation, corporate letters, municipal legislation, and generally just a lot of back and forth about where New York's adult-use cannabis market is going and how it is getting "there" (wherever "there" is"). Over the
La semana pasada, el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos (HHS) recomendó reclasificar el cannabis de la lista I a la III en virtud de la Ley de Sustancias Controladas (CSA). Mis colegas ya han abordado diversas implicaciones de la reclasificación propuesta del cannabis (véase aquí y aquí). Hoy quiero hablar de una de las consecuencias más importantes del anuncio, aparte de
Las marcas de cannabis y los retos que plantea China Las marcas de cannabis constituyen una parte importante de la actividad de mi bufete en materia de propiedad intelectual (y, de hecho, de nuestra actividad en general). Históricamente, ha habido poco solapamiento entre nuestras áreas de práctica relacionadas con el cannabis y con China, más allá de nuestra representación a varias empresas de productos auxiliares del sector del cannabis en asuntos relacionados con su fabricación en China. Esto está empezando a cambiar,
Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that a pretty historic announcement was made last week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS officially recommended that marijuana be rescheduled from Schedule I to Schedule III of the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The HHS news means that the country’s top
