Author: Sean Hocking

After a long interlude (caused primarily by government focus turning to the COVID-19 pandemic and other emergent priorities), a new MOPH notification was published in the Government Gazette on December 14, 2020, expanding the delisting of cannabis from the Narcotics Act to include nearly all parts of cannabis and hemp plants, as detailed in the table below.

In the past, there has been great uncertainty among buyers and consumers in Germany regarding the distribution of hemp tea and other cannabis based products. This uncertainty stems from the somewhat ambiguous legal framework and corresponding case law. Therefore, many industry representatives hoped that the German Federal Court of Justice (“BGH”) would provide more clarity in its recent decision of March 24, 2021. Therein the BGH overturned a decision of the Regional Court of Braunschweig in favor of the defendants, which were accused of trafficking narcotics

Florida law does not explicitly prohibit a medical marijuana card holder from obtaining a concealed weapons and firearms license. It also does not prohibit a concealed weapons licensee from obtaining a medical marijuana card. Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Nikki Fried has gone on record contending that Florida law allows one to simultaneously hold both. In 2019, Fried explained, “I have both [a concealed weapons permit and medical marijuana card]. So I want to make that very clear, that I will not be taking anybody’s concealed weapons permit or not renewing them. I see no conflict between the two.”[1] The Florida Department of Agriculture, however, will only issue a firearms license if the applicant is not prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm by any other provision of Florida or federal law.[2]

AUSTIN, Tex. – On 3/22/21, Judge Livingston of the 261st District heard “Crown Distributing LLC v. Texas Department of State Health Services”. I “attended” the trial, which in this CV19 era means that I tuned in to the live Youtube feed of the trial. Not quite the in-person spectacle, with after-the-event networking, I would have hoped for, but enjoyable nonetheless.

The House of Representatives (Cámara de Diputados) of Mexico on March 10, 2021, voted to approve the Federal Law for Cannabis Regulation (Ley Federal para la Regulación del Cannabis), a bill that would legalize and (to some extent) decriminalize the recreational use of cannabis.