#californiacannabis - "Humboldt Cannabis reform initiative — which received over 7,000 petition signatures and will be on the March 2024 ballot — would eliminate mixed-light and indoor farming, limit the number of permits the county can issue, cap farm size to 10,000 square feet and only allow one cultivation permit to be issued per person or corporation. Humboldt County Planning and Building Director John Ford told the supervisors that the initiative, if approved by voters, would destroy the viability of legal cannabis farming in the county.

“We could see farms shutting down just because they can't comply with the regulatory requirements that have been put in place,” Ford said."

#cbdproducts - "House Speaker Clay Schexnayder, who wrote hemp legislation in 2022, took up the issue with the Louisiana health department, and, according to the Illuminator, he accused the department of “misinterpreting his legislation.”

Health department officials “have acknowledged the agency mistakenly approved about 230 products it shouldn't have, specifically vape cartridges that some manufacturers disguised as CBD tinctures,” the Illuminator reported.

Schexnayder said nearly 400 unlawful products had been approved.

Some of the confusion around what the Louisiana law permits relates to how many “servings” of THC are permitted in hemp-derived products."

#californiacannabis - "A messy case of legal fingerpointing between two California companies has apparently ended amicably, with both Unrivaled Brands and People's California agreeing to a settlement, according to a press release.

Although the terms of the settlement were not immediately disclosed, the end result is that both companies will “request a stay of all pending litigation,” according to the release.

The two companies became involved in a legal brawl last year, suing each other over various allegations of breach of contract, fraud, and other supposed misdeeds."

#cannabislaw - "A would-be cannabis business owner is bringing his constitutional challenge to Washington state's residency requirement for cannabis operators to the Ninth Circuit.

In a notice filed Tuesday, Todd Brinkmeyer said he would appeal a February order issued by U.S. District Judge Benjamin H. Settle, which ended his lawsuit against the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board and found that the dormant commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution could not apply to cannabis because of its federal illegality.

The federal district court's decision was at odds with a First Circuit ruling from August, which determined that the constitutional doctrine, which bars states' ability to restrict interstate commerce, applied to Maine's medical cannabis program and that regulators could not bar out-of-state investors from participating in the market."