Latest Cannabis Headlines
All the headlines from our Cannabis Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Takeaways from Our Conversation on ESG Risks in Cannabis
Apr 7 2022 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Environmental, social and governance may have rightly taken a backseat to Russia’s war on Ukraine, but it’s still a big part of the world nowadays. The concept of being...
Maryland Will Vote on Legalizing Cannabis in November
Apr 4 2022 // Maryland lawmakers voted Friday to let voters decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana in November. The Maryland House voted 94-39 for a constitutional amendment already approved by the Senate. The House also...
South Dakota Hires Firm to Track Cannabis From Seed to Sales
Mar 30 2022 // The South Dakota Department of Health has hired a New York-based software company to help monitor the flow of marijuana in the state’s legal medical marijuana market. The Argus Leader reports the contract with Metrc...
M.J. Hall Launches Admitted Cannabis Management Liability in California and Arizona
Mar 16 2022 // M.J. Hall & Co. is now offering directors and officers liability, employment practices liability and fiduciary liability insurance coverages to cannabis companies and their executives through an admitted product in...
Takeaways from Our Conversation on Who the Insuring Cannabis Brokers Are
Mar 15 2022 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Are most people in the insuring cannabis business merely cannabis insurance brokers in name only – their only client being a cousin who owns a mom-n-pop dispensary in downtown? Or do most...
Oklahoma Republican Lawmakers Unveil Medical Marijuana Regulations
Mar 11 2022 // Republicans in the Oklahoma House on March 7 unveiled a package of new restrictions on the state’s booming medical marijuana industry, designed to crack down on illegal growers who sell cannabis on the black...
Supreme Court Asked to Resolve Federal Drug Law v. State Medical Marijuana Laws Debate
Mar 7 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to address whether the federal drug law that criminalizes possession of marijuana invalidates state orders requiring employers and their workers’ compensation insurers to pay for...
Takeaways from Our Conversation on Cannabis Supply Chain Risks
Mar 1 2022 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Everyone knows about supply chain management nowadays. The pandemic, with shelves bare of TP and paper towels, and cargo ships backed up at ports, drove home for many what a supply chain is...
Supreme Court Asked to Resolve Federal Drug Law v. State Medical Marijuana Laws Debate
Feb 28 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to address whether federal drug law that criminalizes possession of marijuana invalidates state orders requiring employers and their workers’ compensation insurers to pay for...
People Moves: Beazley Cyber Adds Chubb’s Cohen, Promotes Larson; Scheurle Leads Burns & Wilcox’s Cannabis; Parametrix Hires Hiscox’s Wong
Feb 24 2022 // Beazley Hires Two for Cyber Services Insurer Beazley announced two senior leadership hires to its global Cyber Services team. Russ Cohen has been appointed head of U.S. Cyber Services, and Bala Larson has been promoted to...
Takeaways from Our Conversation on More M&As, Cannabis ‘Frappucinos’ on Tap for 2022
Feb 14 2022 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv New Frontier Data, a producer of cannabis research and intelligence, released its “22 for 22 Report,” in January, which imparts a definitive air of optimism mixed with few...
Aon Launches Cannabis-Focused Management Liability Program Greensite
Feb 3 2022 // Greensite Insurance Services, an Aon speciality insurance program, has launched a cannabis management liability program tailored toward private entities including start ups that are looking for substantial management...
M.J. Hall in California Introduces D&O, EPL and FL Cannabis Coverage
Feb 3 2022 // San Francisco, California-based M.J. Hall & Co. is introducing directors and officers liability, employment practices liability and fiduciary liability insurance coverages for cannabis business owners. The coverages,...
Minnesota Groups Unite in Recreational Marijuana Opposition
Feb 1 2022 // Several businesses, trade groups and social organizations announced the formation of a coalition on Monday opposing legalization of recreational marijuana in Minnesota as the measure’s supporters signal another push...
Delaware Lawmakers Advance Bill Legalizing Recreational Marijuana
Jan 28 2022 // A Democrat-led House committee voted mostly along party lines Wednesday to release a bill legalizing recreational marijuana use by adults in Delaware. A lone Republican joined Democrats on the Health and Human Development...
Takeaways from Our Conversation on EPL Challenges in Cannabis
Jan 26 2022 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Employment practices liability is tough across pretty much all industries, and it may only get tougher. A new record was set last year for the amount of top class action settlements,...
Mississippi Moves Closer to Medical Marijuana
Jan 21 2022 // Mississippi is moving closer to joining most other states in allowing people to use marijuana to relieve medical conditions. The state House voted 104-14 Wednesday to pass a bill that would create a medical marijuana...
South Dakota Lawmakers Consider Recreational Marijuana Legalization
Jan 11 2022 // South Dakota lawmakers spent the last year figuring out what to do with two voter-approved measures to legalize both medical and recreational marijuana. While a medical program has been implemented, recreational pot...
These Are the Top 5 Insuring Cannabis Stories for 2021
Jan 6 2022 // The year for the cannabis industry went by like a puff of smoke – and we need make no excuse the bad pun for a year that was a) forgettable, b) not the sort of year that legalization advocates hoped for, and c)...
New Louisiana Law Expands Medical Marijuana Program
Jan 3 2022 // Louisiana’s medical marijuana program will offer raw, smokable cannabis to its patients, and the state will tweak its calculations for state income taxes as more than two dozen new laws take effect Saturday with the...
