In a test case of the ongoing conflicts between federal and state marijuana statutes, a cannabis software firm wants a U.S. judge to override immigration authorities who denied an employee a visa on the grounds that his work “aided and abetted activities related to violations of federal drug laws.”
According to filings in U.S. District Court in Northern California, Ameya Vinayak Pethe, an Indian national, sought an H-1B visa to work in the United States as the director of development operations for Treez, a software platform for cannabis businesses.
ADVERTISEMENT
According to the court documents, San Francisco Bay Area-based Treez had sought similar visas many times in the past.
Like the previous times, U.S. Customs and Immigration Services approved Pethe’s visa in January
Read full article on Marijuana Business Daily
