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Marijuana Mortgages in California? Yes, They Are a Thing.
Cannabis Law Group

As legal recreational marijuana businesses continue to put roots in communities throughout California, employees and owners of these companies are increasingly looking to buy homes. But can they qualify? Los Angeles cannabis business lawyers can explain that residential mortgage for marijuana business owners may not be as tricky as commercial loans or rental agreements for…

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Californian Weed List Site Drops Thousands of Illicit Ads, Still More to Do
Cannabis Law Group

The California-based cannabis list site, Weedmaps, has held true to its promise to drop unlicensed cannabis advertising listings from its platform by January 1, but the work is ongoing. Industry insiders say the very nature of Weedmaps – a self-published platform that fails to vet ads prior to posting them – continues to afford illegal…

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Los Angeles Marijuana Dispensary Threatens City Suite Over Illegal Shops
Cannabis Law Group

Licensed marijuana business leaders are fed up with pervasive scofflaws, saturating the market with unfair competitive advantage (they’re not paying for exorbitant taxes, seed-to-sale tracking and quality testing). Customers are swayed by lower prices, and some may even be tricked by ripped-of branding/copyright violations. One of those companies is now threatening the city with legal…

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California Cannabis Vending: Potential Legal Pitfalls
Cannabis Law Group

First came the movie vending machines. Then there were the cupcake machines. Now, increasingly cropping up in California since the legalization of recreational marijuana are the cannabis vending machines. (Actually, it might not be a bad idea to line up all three side-by-side…) In truth, these self-service machines may be quite convenient, but vendors need…

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Candidate Targeted by Bank for Support of Marijuana
Cannabis Law Group

It is common knowledge among our marijuana business attorneys and our clients that banks are highly restricted in how they can interact with the cannabis industry. Wells Fargo, however, recently took those restrictions too far when the bank closed the account of a candidate in Florida who made cannabis legalization a tenant of her campaign…

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STATES to Feds: Marijuana is None of Your Business
Cannabis Law Group

A bipartisan blend of politicians has come together to support a bill that could finally offer some concrete relief from the oppressive federal law that continues to bind the hands of marijuana businesses despite state legalization. The STATES Act, Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States, is a more formal way of declaring that state…

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Could Supreme Court Gambling Ruling Bolster Marijuana Rights? You Bet!
Cannabis Law Group

An ally in the fight for states rights to enact marijuana legislation has come from an unlikely place. A landmark Supreme Court decision is primed to have a major effect on marijuana rights throughout the country, but the content of the case is not cannabis: It’s sports gambling. The recent decision in Murphy v. National…

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Ohio Marijuana Legalization Struggling But Still Alive
Cannabis Law Group

Marijuana laws in Ohio have experienced a bit of a failure to launch. In 2015 a legalization ballot measure was voted down, largely due to a scare campaign that positioned the 10 pre-designated cultivators as a monopoly. In 2016, HB-523 was signed into law by Gov. John Kasich that set up a process for medical…

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California Estimates Big Tax Boost from Cannabis
Cannabis Law Group

Adult-use cannabis became legal in California Jan. 1 with Proposition 64 going into effect. Many cities and counties however have decided to maintain a ban on marijuana, and others did not have local regulations in place in time for the official roll out of the law. But even after just a few weeks, the state…

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Recreational Cannabis Sales Begin in L.A.
Cannabis Law Group

Three weeks after recreational cannabis sales officially became legal in California, select Los Angeles businesses were allowed to open their doors for commercial sales. While the Adult Use of Marijuana Act made recreational sales legal in the state Jan. 1, it is still up to city and county governments to decide for themselves whether they…

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