In a landmark ruling, the New York Supreme Court delivered a decisive victory for hemp retailers. This decision sets an important precedent, sending a clear message to regulators and law enforcement that constitutional rights cannot be trampled in the name of enforcement.

A court in Tennessee issued an injunction temporarily pausing the implementation of certain hemp regulations in the state. The ruling prohibits the Department from regulating “mere hemp or raw hemp flower” and also from implementing concentration limits for THCA in hemp products.

Billionaire Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has been using his outsized influence to promote a bill, IL HB 4293, that will decimate the state’s hemp industry. In effect, HB 4293 will take away the hard-earned market for hemp products from the state’s hemp industry and give it to the state’s marijuana industry.

On his panel at AIHEF in Thailand, attorney Anthony Traurig discussed developments in international cannabis law and highlighted the ways that Kight Law is able to assist companies looking to expand their business internationally.

Killing THCa will end the cannabis Golden Age, will set cannabis reform back in a way that may take decades to recover from, will push billions of dollars of cannabis back onto the black market, and will restrict access to millions of people. Let’s not do that.

Join me and the US Hemp Authority (USHA) for a free one-hour webinar on Monday, November 25, at 2:00pm ET to discuss its new intoxicating hemp certification program.

Illinois regulators are trying to kill the state’s hemp industry. Here’s how you can help.

The US Cannabis Counsel (USCC) recently rejected four applicants from the hemp industry to its Board. The applicants, Mood, Apotheca, Kight Law, and a prominent national bank, applied to the USCC’s Board in an effort to reach across the aisle, end the “Cannabis Civil War”, and work towards a regulatory pathway that bridges the current gap between the hemp and marijuana sectors.