Walter (Chad) Blackham

A proposal to legalize recreational and adult-use cannabis in the Buckeye state is coming to ballots in November. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced…

As the cannabis industry continues to expand into new states and as existing markets mature, operators have begun looking for new…

Marketing and advertising cannabis products in the U.S. these days is no easy task. The dichotomy between federal and state cannabis laws…

President Biden’s pardon of individuals with federal convictions for simple possession of cannabis has significant ramifications for the future…

In Northeast Patients Group, et al. v. United Cannabis Patients and Caregivers of Maine, a split panel for the United States Court of Appeals…

On Wednesday, May 25, 2022, Rhode Island became the nineteenth state to legalize adult-use cannabis. Democrat Governor Daniel J. McKee signed into law S.B. 2430 and companion act H.B. 7593, or the Rhode Island Cannabis Act, after both bills were approved by…

On April 11, 2022, New Jersey’s Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC) voted to approve the state’s first adult-use cannabis sales to the general public. In doing so, the CRC granted regulatory approval to seven companies currently operating thirteen medical marijuana dispensaries to commence…

In December the Ohio Senate passed Senate Bill 261, potentially broadening Ohio’s Medical Marijuana Control Program for the first time since implementation in 2018. SB 261 would create the new Division of Marijuana Control (DMC), a division of the Department of Commerce,…

Recent bills and ballot initiatives suggest that adult-use cannabis may be coming to Ohio in the near future.  However, with the State currently considering two separate paths towards legalization, the key question now seems just as much how as when. The first…