Despite the implementation of full-scale federal cannabis reform still being years in the future among the most optimistic estimates, cannabis’ botanical relatives of CBD and hemp have gained significant legality in the last four years. As it’s a plant that is both non-psychoactive and contains...
Even with recent tremendous financial and employment-related hardships upon almost every business that’s a part of every state’s cannabis industry, the massive success of this industry that’s so rapidly become a multi-billion dollar industry must also be acknowledged. In just Colorado alone since their first...
Cultiva Law has announced that it will be offering pro bono legal services to qualified Social Equity Applicants in the Washington state cannabis market. The State of Washington has chosen to hand-select “mentors” and allocate funding to pay for those mentors. We believe this idea...
In what will certainly be one of her final executive actions as Governor of Oregon, Kate Brown has pardoned state-level convictions for possession of one (1) ounce or less of marijuana. The pardons will apply when the only charge in the case involved simple possession of less...
We are living in a new age for the Cannabis plant. We have not seen such prevalent, legal use of cannabis across the US and the world since the 1920s. It took nearly 100 years to get here, but few people consider how that happened. When I...
There’s been a string of robberies affecting Washington State cannabis dispensaries, culminating in three deaths over just four days in March. Those robberies have led to tremendous personal and financial losses, not to mention additional operating hurdles for legitimate cannabis business owners. As if it...
In our second installment of the legislative installment we bring you the remaining bills in both houses. The following summary contains the rest of the significant bills introduced for the 2022 legislative sessions, and industry participants are encouraged to keep an eye out for the...
February 18, 2022, brought the close of the last day to introduce bills for the 2022 California legislative session. In the coming months, each house will now discuss, amend, vote on, and pass these bills—the last day to pass any bills for this year, in...
In 2021, the NCAA changed its archaic rules to allow college athletes to profit off of their “name, image, likeness (NIL).” This has allowed for endorsements, sponsorships, partnerships, and overall business relationships for the aspiring professionals on and off the field. Companies like “Kool-Aid,” Boost...