Employment attorneys clear the smoke on new marijuana laws
When Proposal 1 passed last year to legalize the recreational use of cannabis, it left employers in a bit of a haze as to how that would impact their drug policies going forward. The post Employment...
View ArticleDifficulties of protecting IP for cannabis, related products
As more than half of the states in the U.S. have recently decriminalized cannabis/marijuana to some extent, the domestic cannabis business has been growing rapidly. The post Difficulties of protecting...
View ArticleDykema lawyers discuss cannabis industry
With the window for adult-use cannabis applications opening Nov. 1, several attorneys from Dykema Gossett PLLC held a forum to cover the coming changes to marijuana laws in Michigan and how businesses...
View ArticleCriminal — Marijuana – MMMA
Where a defendant was convicted of two counts of delivery of a controlled substance (marijuana) and two counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony (felony-firearm), the...
View ArticleCivil Practice — Marijuana – Board of Pharmacy
Where plaintiffs have challenged the Michigan Board of Pharmacy’s placement of marijuana on Schedule 1 of the list of controlled substances, the challenge must be rejected because the issues identified...
View ArticleLicenses and Permits — Marijuana – Mootness
Where a plaintiff filed a complaint after the defendant sent the plaintiff a letter informing the plaintiff that its planned use of a site as a marijuana growing facility was not authorized, a judgment...
View ArticleSearch and Seizure — Marijuana – Odor
Where a defendant’s motion to suppress was allowed, that ruling should be upheld because (1) the smell of marijuana, by itself, did not give rise to probable cause and (2) there was no evidence of...
View ArticleLicenses and Permits — Marijuana – Criteria
Where plaintiffs challenged the licensing criteria used by the defendant city for marijuana licenses, a judge did not err by rejecting the plaintiffs’ constitutional and statutory challenges to the...
View ArticleParent and Child — Marijuana – Parenting time suspension
Where a mother was prohibited from having parenting time with her son until she had three consecutive clean drug screens after having tested positive for tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the psychoactive...
View ArticleZoning—Marijuana—Drug-free zone
Where the Detroit zoning board ruled than an appellant could not operate a Medical Marijuana Grower Facility in a drug-free zone, that ruling should be upheld despite the appellant’s contention that...
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