California’s historic new medical cannabis regulations bestow unprecedented legitimacy on the billion-dollar industry, and the sector is exploding with growth.
For example, events related to medical cannabis law, regulations, and professional development are multiplying rapidly. Here is a selection of upcoming dates on our radar.
Tonight: “Protecting Access in Your Community”
Live online broadcast via YouTube/ Google Hangout
8 p.m.
Americans for Safe Access details how to stop and reverse local bans on medical cannabis cultivation, delivery, and dispensing.
Berkeley Medical Cannabis Commission Hearing 6 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center
1901 Hearst Avenue, Berkeley
Hearing to take public comment on the six groups vying for a new Berkeley dispensary permit.
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Cannabis professional events undercut ‘stoner’ stigma. Above, the International Cannabis Business Conference 2015.
Credits: David Downs
Friday “Disjointed Regulation: State Efforts to Legalize Marijuana” A conference at UC Davis School of Law on January 29, 2016.
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
UC Davis School of Law, Room 1001
“UC Davis Law Review will host 13 scholars to discuss the major legal issues surrounding the legalization of marijuana in some states. Panel topics include federalism issues, the taxation and regulation of marijuana, and how state legalization could impact our criminal justice and incarceration systems.”
Keynote: Professor Richard J. Bonnie, Professor of Medicine and Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Morning Speaker: Allen Hopper, Director of Criminal Justice and Drug Policy, ACLU of Northern California
Panelists:
• Associate Dean Steven Bender, Seattle University School of Law
• Professor Sam Kamin, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law
• Brianne Gorod, Appellate Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center
• Jolene Forman, Staff Attorney, Drug Policy Alliance
• Professor Alex Kriet, Thomas Jefferson School of Law
• Professor Andrea Roth, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
• Professor Michael Vitiello, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
• Professor Erik Luna, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University
• Professor Benjamin Leff, American University Washington College of Law
• Professor Joseph Bankman, Stanford Law School
• Professor Jeremy Kidd, Mercer Law School
Feb. 20 2nd annual Ganjier Spring Kickoff The Mateel Community Center, Redway, Humboldt County
“…jump start the outdoor season and get cultivators prepared with the seeds, tools and knowledge they’ll need in 2016 …”
