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Jul 10, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Dascher Pasco |Jean Smith-Gonnell

July 10, 2024 To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The federal rescheduling of marijuana has been a topic of conversation within the marijuana industry since President Biden’s statement requesting that the secretary of health and human services (HHS) and the attorney general (AG) “initiate the administrative process to review expeditiously how marijuana is scheduled under federal law.”[1] However, the Supreme Court’s recent decision overturning the Chevron doctrine...

Jun 26, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Dascher Pasco |Jean Smith-Gonnell

Among the two most widely reported federal changes to cannabis regulation are the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) proposed regulation for the federal rescheduling of marijuana (the Proposed Rescheduling) and amendments to the 2018 Agricultural Improvement Act (the Farm Bill).

Jun 21, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Dascher Pasco |Stephen C. Piepgrass |Daniel Waltz

A gambling compact between the state of Florida and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, which allows for sports betting off tribal lands, will remain in place after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for review filed by Florida casino operators. This decision will have a significant impact on states’ authority to regulate gambling, especially gambling facilitated by Indian Tribes, moving forward.

Jun 21, 2024 | practicesource.com | Stephen C. Piepgrass |Dascher Pasco

A gambling compact between the state of Florida and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, which allows for sports betting off tribal lands, will remain in place after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for review filed by Florida casino operators. This decision will have a significant impact on states’ authority to regulate gambling, especially gambling facilitated by Indian Tribes, moving forward.

Dec 13, 2023 | jdsupra.com | Dascher Pasco |Jean Smith-Gonnell

Recently, the City of Denver’s Department of Public Health and Environment (DDPHE) ordered, among other things, the destruction of Titan Health LLC’s (Titan Health) marijuana plants that it deemed to “hav[e] evidence of spider mite influx.” Titan Health appealed the DDPHE’s Notice of Violation (NOV), not only due to the lack of evidence warranting such an extreme remedy, but also because the NOV exceeded the City of Denver’s authority.[1] In fact, according to Titan Health, Colorado state law...