Cannabis Law Group’s Medical Marijuana Legal Blog

In 2013, Illinois joined the ranks of states that approved the legalization of medicinal marijuana. However, the process of implementing that law has been a bumpy one. Eighteen months after the law first passed, the state’s governor granted dozens of permits to select businesses to grow and sell the drug. It may be many months…

The number of states granting at least some measure of approval for marijuana sales, possession and use may soon increase, as several bills were recently introduced by state lawmakers in various pushes across the country. It seemed unfathomable just a few years ago that the majority of states would someday allow the cultivation and distribution…

A pending $500,000 civil lawsuit alleges negligence, nuisance and trespassing and has resulted in a temporary, court-ordered injunction – all because one man smoked marijuana in the privacy of his own home. Generally, one’s home is considered sacred in terms of privacy. And that’s the argument being made by the 53-year-old defendant, who argues he…

As legalization of marijuana rapidly expands throughout the country, it has opened the doors to a host of questions and areas of concern regarding insurance coverage. It’s not just about the possibility of civil forfeiture action or criminal arrest so long as the drug remains illegal at the federal level. Among the areas in limbo:…

Washington, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier recently spoke out against the legal framework under which officers have been forced to target marijuana consumers in recent years. She decried the system of prohibition for the way it eroded police-community relations, and said the only thing those arrests accomplish is “making people hate us.” She stated marijuana…

Sheriff offices in Colorado and the neighboring states of Nebraska and Kansas have filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to do away with Amendment 64, the measure that legalized the sale of recreational marijuana, and also to shutter the state’s hundreds of licensed marijuana sellers. The complaint asserts the state marijuana law directly contradicts…

Calvin Broadus, Jr. (better known as Snoop Dogg, a.k.a. Snoop Lion), recently announced he is culling together a fund to invest in a number of marijuana industry start-up ventures. The long-time rapper and purported marijuana connoisseur is reportedly planning to invest $25 million in the rapidly-expanding industry of legal marijuana. He is one of the…

There was a time when conservatives were among the most vocal in terms of blocking access to marijuana – regardless of the purpose. That dynamic is changing, and the evolution has been rapid in recent years, evidenced again recently with the introduction of a Republican-drafted bill to end marijuana prohibition in Texas. Rep. David Simpson’s…

Florida is among the handful of states that have yet to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes. And yet, a man who was caught growing some 50 plants at his private residence has been acquitted of marijuana manufacture – a third-degree felony in that state, garnering a maximum five years in prison – using the marijuana-as-medicine…

Mobile medical marijuana dispensaries seemed to be a solution to a host of issues encountered by brick-and-motor locations. They could avoid issues with being too close to certain structures, such as schools or day care centers. They could deliver the medicine directly to patients who might otherwise be too ill to retrieve it themselves. They…