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Jan 24, 2025 | jdsupra.com | Slates Veazey

You’ve probably seen the reports of the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ January 7, 2025 opinion upholding a Virginia law that regulates consumable hemp products. I planned to put up a blog post soon after the opinion was handed down, and I will still summarize the holding here. But the delay in writing allowed me to take a step back (and another step back), and view this in proper perspective: 2025 is going to be a huge year in the state law hemp legislation vs.

Jan 23, 2025 | natlawreview.com | Slates Veazey

You’ve probably seen the reports of the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ January 7, 2025 opinion upholding a Virginia law that regulates consumable hemp products. I planned to put up a blog post soon after the opinion was handed down, and I will still summarize the holding here. But the delay in writing allowed me to take a step back (and another step back), and view this in proper perspective: 2025 is going to be a huge year in the state law hemp legislation vs.

Jan 6, 2025 | jdsupra.com | Whitt Steineker |Slates Veazey

It’s the first week of January, and you all know what that means in the blogging game: It’s time to make wild predictions about the coming year. As always, making predictions is hard, particularly when they’re about the future. But here are a few of our thoughts about what the cannabis world may look like in 2025:The 2018 Farm Bill was set to expire in September 2023 before it was extended to late 2024. It has been extended again until late 2025 — with no changes to the hemp provisions.

Dec 6, 2024 | jdsupra.com | J. Hunter Robinson |Whitt Steineker |Slates Veazey

Part of the reason we started a Cannabis Industry team at a Southeastern-based law firm before any Southeastern state had adopted a marijuana program was because we had a hunch that the expansion of cannabis would eventually make its way to our neck of the woods. And we guess it was just kind of a slow day around the office. It turns out that our hunch – which even we are modest enough to admit was pretty much obvious and inevitable – turned out to be true.

Dec 5, 2024 | cannabislaw.report | Whitt Steineker |Slates Veazey |Nathan Viebrock

Part of the reason we started a Cannabis Industry team at a Southeastern-based law firm before any Southeastern state had adopted a marijuana program was because we had a hunch that the expansion of cannabis would eventually make its way to our neck of the woods. And we guess it was just kind of a slow day around the office. It turns out that our hunch – which even we are modest enough to admit was pretty much obvious and inevitable – turned out to be true.