We provide legal services to the hemp, cannabinoid, medical-marijuana and adult-use marijuana markets in the Upper Midwest.
We offer a holistic range of legal services for the hemp, cannabinoid, medical-marijuana and adult-use marijuana markets in the Upper Midwest.
We assist our clients in complying with an ever-changing universe of regulations. In the event of a dispute, we have experience successfully challenging regulatory decisions.
Our attorneys have extensive experience lobbying, drafting legislation and crafting policy. Based upon our knowledge of the complex laws and regulations impacting hemp, cannabinoid, medical marijuana and adult-use marijuana, we will guide you through the challenges posed at the state and local level.
We can assist you with preparation of your licensing application. Then, if trouble arrives, we can litigate to protect your rights.
We can help form your new business and get it up and running. We assist with contract drafting and review. We also provide guidance with corporate transactions, asset purchases and sales, and real estate transactions.
In the matter of State v. Loveless, Minnesota Cannabis Law was proud to contribute to an amicus brief urging the Minnesota Supreme Court to reverse the appellate court’s decision, which ignores Minnesota’s hemp statute and is crushing our industrial hemp, CBD and cannabinoid businesses and customers. –Jason Tarasek
A recent appellate decision throws a fledgling industry into chaos Imagine, if you will, a place where you could walk into a retail storefront and be presented with a wide variety of marijuana products for sale. If you ever travel beyond Minnesota’s borders, you know these places exist. For example: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut,
This podcast is from BofC Live, where we where we deliver cannabis news, and explore the companies, brands, people and trends driving the cannabis industry.
Delta-8 has been dubbed “THC-lite” and the hemp product is booming in popularity in states — such as Minnesota and the Dakotas — where recreational marijuana remains illegal. Is there a connection? Yes. Host Jeremy Fugleberg talks with Jason Tarasek of Minnesota Cannabis Law to discuss Delta-8: what it is, what it does, its legality,
For decades, people of color have been disproportionately policed and incarcerated for marijuana-related offenses. Today, as marijuana becomes recreationally legal in more and more states, and as white people have begun profiting from the very thing that many African Americans are still serving time for, more and more civil rights activists have begun to advocate
One of the biggest roadblocks to marijuana legalization in states where it is still criminalized and illegal to consume without a medical permit is how states will handle people driving under the influence of marijuana. The Governors Highway Safety Association, a non-profit organization located in Washington, D.C., reports that there are two basic methods that
A large battle associated with the legalization of marijuana, in any market, is determining an appropriate tax rate. Appropriate taxation requires a delicate balance. The tax must be great enough to viably contribute to the many initiatives’ legislatures often set forward when legalizing cannabis. On the other hand, the tax must be low enough to
As a growing number of states legalize marijuana, marijuana use – even medical use – by a parent may be raised as an issue in child custody disputes. While a marijuana user may argue that their use does not impact their ability to properly parent their child, especially no more than one who consumes alcohol,
Marijuana has been cultivated and used by humans for thousands of years. Evidence suggesting its use more than 5,000 years ago in what is now Romania has been described extensively.[1] Burned cannabis seeds have been found in the graves of shamans in China and Siberia from 500 BC.[2] People across the earth have used cannabis
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