‘marijuana’
Could the States Do Anything to Blunt the Impact of a Federal Crackdown?
Aug. 9, 2017—I just returned from the NCSL annual meeting in Boston, where I participated on a Marijuana Federalism panel with Representative Roger Goodman (WA state house) and John Hudak (Brookings). A short recap of the panel can be found here . Consistent with recent reports, all the panelists agreed the Trump Administration is unlikely to crack...
My Reactions to Cory Booker’s Marijuana Justice Act
Aug. 4, 2017—Senator Cory Booker (D NJ) has introduced a proposal to repeal the federal marijuana ban. In a nutshell, Booker’s Marijuana Justice Act would exempt marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act. I believe Booker’s proposal to is incomplete (and therefore, both unwise and politically unpalatable) because it fails to offer any replacement for prohibition. I develop...
Federal appeals court allows private civil RICO to proceed against state-licensed marijuana grower (Safe Streets)
Jul. 25, 2017—In Safe Streets Alliance v. Hickenlooper (June 2017), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit reversed the dismissal of a civil RICO lawsuit brought by a private plaintiff against a Colorado licensed marijuana cultivator. The original RICO suit – and the district court’s decision dismissing it – is discussed in the book at...
Teaching Resources
Jul. 24, 2017—Given the booming interest in the laws governing marijuana, it’s no surprise that an ever-growing number of law, graduate, and undergraduate schools are offering courses on marijuana law and policy. In just the last two years, more than 35 schools have adopted my book for use in a course devoted to marijuana law, a steep increase...
Massachusetts court finds employers must accommodate employee’s off-duty medical marijuana use
Jul. 21, 2017—Massachusetts’ highest court has ruled that employers have a duty to accommodate their employees’ off-duty use of medical marijuana. The ruling in Barbuto v. Advantage Sales and Marketing, LLC (Mass. 2017), concerned a state handicap discrimination law (similar to the ADA) which makes it unlawful for any employer “to dismiss or refuse to hire . ....
More About the Book
Jul. 17, 2017—Order the book Marijuana Law, Policy, and Authority is the leading textbook on marijuana law. It is widely available from the publisher Wolters Kluwer and from Amazon.com (in both print and e-book formats), among other vendors. Free sample content The Table of Contents and Chapter 1 provide more details about the contents and organization of the book. Chapter 1 also...
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Jul. 10, 2017—Welcome to the Marijuana Law, Policy, and Authority Blog, the official companion website for the pioneering textbook, Robert A. Mikos, Marijuana Law, Policy, and Authority (2017). This website will help keep you abreast of important developments in the field of marijuana law and policy. It also offers some special resources for instructors who teach courses on marijuana law...
About the Author
Jul. 10, 2017—Robert Mikos is the LaRoche Family Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University and one of the nation’s leading authorities on marijuana law and policy. Over the last decade, he has written, lectured, consulted and testified on the struggles among federal, state, and local officials to control marijuana policy, among other topics. Professor Mikos earned his A.B. cum...