Higher Law: Some Thoughts on a Marijuana First at the FDA | Pot Rules in the Bible Belt

Higher Law: Some Thoughts on a Marijuana First at the FDA | Pot Rules in the Bible Belt | And: New Lobbying Disclosures

We're looking at the FDA's approval of a cannabis-containing prescription drug. How big of a deal was this news? And check out which company is hiring lobbyists on both coasts in Who Got the Work. Thanks for reading Higher Law.

June 28, 2018 at 04:00 PM

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An FDA First for Marijuana

it approved for the first time ever tweeted Hilary Bricken Harris Bricken Steven Schain Hoban Law Group John Mansfield, Harris Bricken The bottom line? told CNBC this week Mansfield wrote an interesting piece about the Cambridge, U.K.-based GW Pharmaceuticals and the biotech company's efforts to bring cannabinioid-containing medicines to market. You can read it here.

Who Got the Work

Eaze Solutions Inc. Holland & Knight a federal filing Sacramento Advocates spent $74,000 Greenspoon Marder Rachel Gillette here

In the Weeds

John Morgan Morgan & Morgan regulation disputes Florida Politics >> Voters in red-state Oklahoma approved an expansive medical marijuana law on Tuesday Tulsa World >> Oklahoma isn't the only Bible Belt state welcoming medical marijuana. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette >> As more states legalize some type of marijuana use, The New York Times >> New Jersey's state budget is due Tuesday. Marijuana legalization won't be part of it. eager to generate revenues NJ Advance Media >> Massachusetts awarded the state's first recreational cannabis business license to Sira Naturals Maura Healey The Boston Globe