Cannabis Law

Your license transition plan should consider employees. You’re new to the Oregon cannabis scene and quickly realize you won’t be able to open a newly...

Coming soon to California cannabis? In addition to our California cannabis business attorneys’ work on corporate, finance, and transactional issues with marijuana-related businesses, we also...

Noncompetes aren’t always enforceable. Marijuana has been legal in Oregon for about three years now. Employees with specialized skills are starting to jump ship and...

AB 2164 may create surprises for cannabis landlords. Prior to the enactment of AB 2164, California law required cities and counties to grant a person responsible...

Our firm’s main practice areas include cannabis, China, trade and immigration. As such, it may not surprise you to learn that we get a lot...

Unlicensed cannabis traders, beware. California has experienced some growing pains as it has continued to roll out its regulated cannabis regime pursuant to the Medicinal...

California is taking steps to safeguard canna consumers. Yesterday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a new piece of privacy legislation—AB-2402—which places restrictions on how licensed...

So many questions. We’re still in the early days of the complete roll out of the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (“MAUCRSA”)...

We recently wrote about the new Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) rules for marijuana businesses, and observed that those rules were issued with the stated...

Nice job by the court. As a general rule of thumb, employers are not allowed to discriminate against employees with disabilities. Both federal and state...

Development agreements are a unique process. This is the second post in our three-part series on California development agreements. In our first post we provided...

If you have purchased marijuana in Washington State, you’ve probably noticed the packaging can be difficult to open and is adorned with warnings, bar codes,...

What’s in YOUR employee handbook? Even if your company is fully compliant with all OLCC-mandated marijuana laws and regulations, you can still expose yourself to...

Provisional licensing would benefit state AND industry. The California legislature is currently finalizing a bill (SB-1459) which would establish a provisional licensing regime for California...

Could definitely be unconstitutional. We think it is worth taking another look at whether Washington’s strict residency requirement is constitutional. Since Washington first licensed marijuana...