MEDICAL MARIJUANA BUSINESS FORMATION AND OPERATION

Our firm provides comprehensive business, corporate, and general legal counsel to medical marijuana businesses and entities, including dispensaries, collectives/cooperatives, and cultivators. Our extensive experience and up-to-date knowledge of all laws, rules, and regulations ensure that our clients are compliant with the ever-evolving legal landscape. Our attorneys and staff work side-by-side with experienced criminal attorneys who specialize in marijuana defense and practice in federal and State courts. This up-to-the moment knowledge of law enforcement patterns, prosecutorial interpretations, and trends in criminal courts regarding medical marijuana laws proves invaluable to our clients. The firm’s approach to legal counsel is a mix of creativity and conservatism so that our clients can start and grow successful medical marijuana businesses/entities that strictly comply with all laws, rules, and regulations.

Medical marijuana counsel provided by our firm includes:

Proper corporate formation and organization in accordance with your State’s medical marijuana laws;
Hands-on and comprehensive counsel regarding the day-to-day operation of a lawful collective/cooperative, dispensary, collective cultivation, and/or delivery service;
Client-specific operating contracts, rules and policies, and procedures;
Counsel regarding federal, State, and local tax rules specific to medical marijuana;
Counsel as to federal law and enforcement patterns;
Negotiating and drafting medical marijuana leases for cultivation and dispensing locations;
Drafting contracts, designations and other necessary records for cultivators of medical marijuana;
Drafting agreements, policies, and procedures for brick-and-mortar cooperatives and collectives;
Drafting designations, agreements, policies, and procedures for the lawful delivery and transportation of medical marijuana;
Counsel regarding proper non-profit operation as well as transparent record-keeping and financial accounting;
Geographic-specific counsel regarding law enforcement patterns, prosecutorial interpretations, and trends in criminal courts;
Counsel regarding production of edible and other marijuana-infused products, proper labeling, and related issues; and
Effective protection of medical marijuana intellectual property.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA BUSINESS FORMATION AND OPERATION

Proper corporate formation and organization in accordance with your State’s medical marijuana laws;

Hands-on and comprehensive counsel regarding the day-to-day operation of a lawful collective/cooperative, dispensary, collective cultivation, and/or delivery service;

Client-specific operating contracts, rules and policies, and procedures;

Counsel regarding federal, State, and local tax rules specific to medical marijuana;

Counsel as to federal law and enforcement patterns;

Negotiating and drafting medical marijuana leases for cultivation and dispensing locations;

Drafting contracts, designations and other necessary records for cultivators of medical marijuana;

Drafting agreements, policies, and procedures for brick-and-mortar cooperatives and collectives;

Drafting designations, agreements, policies, and procedures for the lawful delivery and transportation of medical marijuana;

Counsel regarding proper non-profit operation as well as transparent record-keeping and financial accounting;

Geographic-specific counsel regarding law enforcement patterns, prosecutorial interpretations, and trends in criminal courts;

Counsel regarding production of edible and other marijuana-infused products, proper labeling, and related issues; and

Effective protection of medical marijuana intellectual property.