Yesterday, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded all prior advisory memoranda regarding enforcement priorities in connection with alleged cannabis crimes. This includes the key so-called Cole Memo issued in 2014. That memo advised US attorneys not to prioritize pursuing criminal cases against those complying with...
According to The Fresh Toast, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions is now hinting at expanding enforcement of federal cannabis laws. The report indicates that, at a news conference today, Sessions said they are looking "very hard right now" at possible changes to the Cole Memo. That...
A week ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission, as required by the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, released a proposal to simplify and modernize Regulation S-K, which governs most public company disclosure. None of the proposals individually is that huge, but as a group...
HR 2864, the "Improving Access to Capital Act," passed the US House of Representatives on September 5, 2017 with a lopsided bipartisan vote of 403-3. The short bill directs the SEC to permit full Securities Exchange Act reporting companies to use Regulation A+ for a...
Update August 1, 2017: The Financial Services Committee approved this bill on July 25, 2017 in a rare 59-0 vote. it now heads to the full House of Representatives. The House Financial Services Committee is considering a bill that would permit full SEC reporting companies to...
An insightful article a few weeks ago on MassRoots (www.massroots.com) urges readers to "rebrand" cannabis and call it by its proper scientific name: cannabis. The piece goes through the apparently racist history of those who adopted the term "marijuana" as they pushed for criminalization of cannabis...
On May 4, 2017, the House Financial Services Committee narrowly, by a vote of 34-26, passed the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017, which now moves to the full House. Most of the bill relates to rollbacks of Dodd-Frank provisions that are better covered by those...
The President signed a budget bill last Friday that will keep the government funded through the end of September. After signing the bill, the President issued a statement which, among other things, declared some provisions in the bill unconstitutional, and seemed to suggest that he will...
Got your attention? No it's not April 1 anymore so this is serious. But actually no big deal. Last Friday the SEC adopted some rules mandated by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012. Among them: implementing the use of the term "emerging...
Believe it or not the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act was signed into law on April 5, 2012. A great example of how the legislators, working with an administrative agency, can bring meaningful and substantive positive change. Enacted in the heat of a Congressional...