Sam Reisman

A Second Circuit panel appeared conflicted Thursday on whether the dormant commerce clause applies to federally illegal marijuana and, if so, whether New York cannabis regulators still had an interest in ensuring that some cannabis licenses went to locals.

A New York state judge Thursday ordered cannabis regulators to stop processing applications submitted by would-be marijuana sellers who did not secure a location for their proposed pot shop before November of last year, leaving hundreds of prospective retailers in limbo.

The premises undergirding a 19-year-old U.S. Supreme Court precedent on cannabis policy have changed so dramatically in the intervening years that its holdings no longer apply to the current marijuana landscape, litigator David Boies told a First Circuit panel during oral arguments Thursday.

The Drug Enforcement Administration will kick off six weeks of hearings in late January on the merits of the attorney general's proposal to loosen restrictions on marijuana, an agency administrative law judge said Wednesday.

The Drug Enforcement Administration on Monday affirmed it was acting as the proponent of a proposal to loosen federal restrictions on marijuana, and the administrative law judge said supporters of rescheduling would not get an opportunity to cross-examine DEA witnesses.

Congressional Democrats are urging President Joe Biden to use his executive authority to take further action on marijuana reforms during the waning weeks of his administration.

Congressional Democrats are urging President Joe Biden to use his executive authority to take further action on marijuana reforms during the waning weeks of his administration.

Congressional Democrats are urging President Joe Biden to use his executive authority to take further action on marijuana reforms during the waning weeks of his administration.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition from a Mexican citizen and U.S. resident seeking relief from a Board of Immigration Appeals order which determined his deportation from the country was justified due partly to a Texas conviction for possessing a synthetic cannabinoid.

President-elect Donald Trump's announcement Wednesday that he would nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., one of the relatively few Republican proponents of cannabis legalization, to be the next U.S. attorney general marks an early sign of how his administration will consider marijuana policy.