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Cannabis companies are used to hearing “no” from the tax system, so a recent ruling from the Colorado Department of Revenue stands out. In Private Letter Ruling 26-005, issued in July 2026, the Department considered whether a…
On April 23, 2026, the Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration issued an order moving medical marijuana subject to a state license from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act.
If you aren’t familiar with marijuana, or you’re not a botanist, you may not know that hemp and marijuana are the same plant. Not similar. Not cousins. , separated by a legal distinction so arbitrary it would be funny if it…
This is the second installment in a series on what 1,446 pages of FOIA-ed IRS cannabis training materials reveal. ” This one is about something the IRS places too much faith in: your cannabis business’s METRC data.
Holland & Hart LLP The cannabis industry is in distress. Despite continued market expansion and the increasing number of states legalizing adult use, business owners still grapple with lingering supply-chain issues from the…
Cannabis tax revenue remains a central argument for legalization. In the decade since adult-use markets first launched, local, and state governments have allocated billions of dollars in collected cannabis taxes to fund…
If you didn’t attend the American Bar Association’s Section of Taxation meeting last week, you may have missed that IRS Counsel confirmed they will not automatically challenge a Section 199A qualified business income deduction…
Recreational marijuana use is legal under Nevada state law. But could recreational marijuana use jeopardize an employee’s employment? Nevada voters voted to legalize recreational marijuana use effective January 1, 2017.
Republished with permission, originally appeared in Cannabis Business Executive, June 9, 2022. Confused by the legal status of Delta-8? … it is confusing. Delta-8 is a legally complicated derivative of the Cannabis Sativa plant.