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Given the vast number of celebrities who have endorsed cannabis products in the past few years, a recent news story suggesting that Clint Eastwood had retired from the film industry to get involved in the CBD business did not seem particularly shocking. The news came as a surprise to Eastwood himself, though, as he apparently had no plans to enter the cannabis industry at all. 

The 90-year-old actor and director just filed two lawsuits in a Los Angeles federal court accusing CBD companies of using his name and likeness to advertise their products without his permission. The court documents allege that the companies created fake news stories claiming the actor was quitting films to focus on the CBD business. These lawsuits target nearly 20 different companies from Arizona, California, Delaware, Michigan, and Florida, but may also expand to include up to 80 additional companies.

“This action arises from an online scam that uses a false, defamatory, and wholly fabricated ‘news article’ about Mr. Eastwood to promote and sell cannabidiol (’CBD’) products,” states one of the two lawsuits. “The fraudulent ‘article’ prominently features photographs of Mr. Eastwood and references a fabricated interview with Mr. Eastwood in which he touts his purported line of CBD products. In truth, Mr. Eastwood has no connection of any kind whatsoever to any CBD products and never gave such an interview.”

The lawsuit asserts that the actor is “fiercely protective of his name and image, and has rarely licensed either for the promotion of products,” other than movies he has been involved with. “Like many of his famous characters, Mr. Eastwood is not afraid to confront wrongdoing and hold accountable those that illegally profit off his name and likeness.”

Eastwood is seeking millions of dollars in damages for the false advertising claims, an amount calculated to sufficiently “deter unlawful conduct by defendants in the future,” according to the court document.

The legal action targets 10 companies who allegedly used programming hacks to insert the actor’s name into online search results for CBD products, in order to trick customers into believing that he was repping these products. Three other CBD companies — Sera Labs Inc., Greendios, and For Our Vets LLC — are also said to be responsible for the fake news story.

Sera Labs has said that a third-party advertising company is actually to blame for the fiasco. A representative from Sera told the New York Post that they hired a company to market their product using “strict guidelines” which did not include faking a celebrity endorsement. When the CBD company discovered that the advertising firm was illegally using Eastwood’s likeness to advertise their product, they reportedly “shut down the ads” immediately.

“Sera’s internal guidelines vividly prohibit using celebrities or false claims in its ads, and [the ad company] used completely different ads that had been switched out for the Eastwood ad without any knowledge,” the spokesperson told the Post.

Eastwood is not the only celebrity whose likeness has been used to sell CBD products without their consent. Tom Hanks has also had to deny fake claims that he was endorsing specific brands of CBD products on multiple occasions.

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The New York State Senate has voted 58 to 2 in favor of legislation to protect tenants from being evicted simply because they are certified medical marijuana patients. 

Laying out the need to shield pot patients from housing discrimination, bill S.4117, which was sponsored by Sen. Anna Kaplan (D), declares that “This legislation would seek to ensure that tenants lawfully using medical marihuana are protected from eviction proceedings.”

“It shall be a defense to a proceeding to recover possession of a residential unit that a landlord seeks such recovery because of a person’s certified medical use of medical marihuana, and that, but for such use, the landlord would not seek to recover possession,” it continues. “A landlord may rebut such defense by showing that he or she seeks to recover possession of a residential unit because of any other lawful ground.”

The bill’s justification memo detailed the 2018 case of John Flickner, a 78-year-old resident of Buffalo, New York, who was evicted from his federally subsidized housing solely because he was a legally prescribed medical marijuana patient.

Flickner eventually returned to his home, but only after a rep from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) singled out his case online and tweeted, “State & federal law needs to catch up with medicinal marijuana usage & require private landlords to legally permit the same. Period.”

The legislation still needs one more round of approval. Now that it’s passed the Senate, it will go to the New York State Assembly for consideration by the Housing Committee. If the bill gets signed into law, New York will follow Oregon’s lead. In 2019, the Beaver State officially made it illegal for landlords to discriminate against tenants with marijuana prescriptions. 

This modest — yet important — reform is gaining momentum in the wake of legislators and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) continually failing to reach a deal on adult-use cannabis legalization after the governor proposed it through his budget two years in a row.

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