It’s Super Bowl week! Over the years, we’ve written occasionally about marijuana issues and the National Football League. See here, for example. As more states legalize marijuana, its prevalence in NFL cities is only increasing. This year, the Super Bowl will be in my backyard in Los Angeles (GO RAMS!), and I have no doubt
La llegada del Año Nuevo trajo consigo nuevas normas administrativas sobre la marihuana en el estado de Oregón. Estos cambios se produjeron a través del proceso normativo de la Comisión de Alcohol y Cannabis de Oregón (OLCC). Dicho proceso, a su vez, se deriva de las leyes sobre el cannabis aprobadas por la Asamblea Legislativa de Oregón a principios de este año. Cuestiones comunes sobre la propiedad Definición de propiedad común Oregón permite la verticalidad en su
Big news from the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission (OLCC) this week as it announced it has resumed accepting and processing of new marijuana retailer, wholesaler, and processor applications submitted after June 15, 2018. This is welcome news as the OLCC had imposed an administrative “pause” on new applications to focus on existing licensees and
Los titulares de licencias de la Comisión de Alcohol y Cannabis de Oregón (OLCC) deben cumplir todas las normas derivadas del ORS 475B. Son muchas. Estas normas han estado en constante evolución desde 2015 y se complementan con otros conjuntos de normas permanentes, normas temporales, propuestas de normas, boletines y directrices. Según mi experiencia,
Cannabis licensing has a pretty standard trajectory by this point in time. States tend to start out with medical programs and later adopt recreational programs. What usually happens is that the recreational cannabis market swallows up the medical market. The majority of medical operators will seek out and get authorization to sell recreational cannabis, and
Aunque algunos actores del sector las consideran una medida proteccionista y de carácter local, los requisitos de residencia para obtener licencias de cannabis han sido un elemento básico del sector desde que Washington y Colorado legalizaron el cannabis en todo su territorio en 2012. Cuando vivía en Seattle, el sector local estaba muy entusiasmado por el hecho de que el «gran capital» y los intereses de fuera del estado no pudieran colarse fácilmente en la fiesta que
We wrote a couple of times about the Department of Cannabis Control’s (DCC) proposed emergency regulations. See here and here. Under those regulations, some interesting changes were proposed around the definitions of owners and financial interest holders, alongside restrictions on license stacking on “contiguous” premises (among other things). On September 15, 2021, the DCC submitted
Last Friday and Saturday, members of the Oregon Bar gathered (online) for the third annual Cannabis Law Institute (CLI) put on by the Cannabis and Psychedelics Law Section of the Oregon State Bar. Topics included agricultural liens and receiverships, securities in the cannabis industry, federal and state hemp updates, Oregon’s Psilocybin Act, and the failures
I was born in Rogers Park, Chicago. When I abandoned college (one of the times), I moved back to work in a Greek and Albanian restaurant and live with my grandparents. I used to enjoy sitting at the breakfast table with them and reading the Tribune, which often carried stories of city and downstate corruption.
I’ve preached before on the blog about how often our firm gets pulled into M&A deals where the parties have screwed up reporting the transaction to cannabis regulators on both the state and local levels. In California, in particular, changes of ownership have been a painful affair where the Bureau of Cannabis Control (“BCC”) routinely
