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1 month ago | 
jdsupra.com | Whitt Steineker |Slates Veazey
Recently, a divided United States Supreme Court held that a cannabis product manufacturer could face civil liability under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) if a consumer suffered a personal injury that created a business or property loss to the consumer. Specifically, the Court concluded that an employee could state a claim under RICO for losing his job after testing positive for THC when the product he took was advertised as being THC-free.
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1 month ago | 
natlawreview.com | Jacob H. Hupart |Whitt Steineker |Slates Veazey |Mary Costigan
Skip to main content April 28, 2025 Volume XV, Number 118 Legal Analysis. Expertly Written. Quickly Found.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Slates Veazey
In an April 2023 blog post, we questioned the constitutionality of Mississippi’s regulations that restrict medical cannabis businesses from advertising. And, in that post, we observed that challenging those regulations under the United States Constitution would potentially face unsurmountable legal hurdles:While courts use the same analysis under either federal or state law, any challenge to the Mississippi regulations would still need to be brought under the Mississippi Constitution.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Slates Veazey
Well, our Matt Gaetz post was short lived. And, in hindsight, that should come as no surprise given the overwhelming opposition and allegations that continued to emerge. If you are a frequent reader of Budding Trends, however, you know we try to stay on top of the unending news cycle that is the cannabis industry and keep the masses up to speed. So, here we are again.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Slates Veazey
Well, our Matt Gaetz post was short lived. And, in hindsight, that should come as no surprise given the overwhelming opposition and allegations that continued to emerge. If you are a frequent reader of Budding Trends, however, you know we try to stay on top of the unending news cycle that is the cannabis industry and keep the masses up to speed. So, here we are again.
