At Last, Here Come the Lawyers to the Cannabis Commerce Scene! June 16, 2016 Allen St. Pierre News & Insights, Policy & Legal 0 Comments What’s that sound? Off in the distance, the mighty sound of hoofbeats, kicking up a storm of dust. Gucci-clad men and women with white cowboy hats emerge from the surge, here to provide their best legal advice and services: It’s… Read More→
10 Examples of the Writing on the Weed Walls February 29, 2016 Allen St. Pierre Opinions, Policy & Legal 0 Comments There are too many obvious signs throughout popular culture that the writing on the wall for the end of cannabis prohibition is that it may happen far sooner than later. Below are 10 examples of what today must increasingly be… Read More→
Cannabis Reform Organizations Post-Legalization February 2, 2016 Allen St. Pierre Policy & Legal 0 Comments By: Allen St. Pierre What could be more Washington than having non-governmental organizations hanging around long after their raison d'etre has ended, often through the very act of…succeeding? Such will be the case in part with the complex of cannabis… Read More→
15 Post-Prohibition Wants From Cannabis Consumers and Businesses January 21, 2016 Allen St. Pierre Policy & Legal 1 Comment It should abundantly clear to all but the most cloistered politically that nearly 80Â years of cannabis prohibition is ending with states (notably on the West coast, Colorado, and in New England) leading the way to national legalization. In 2016, there… Read More→
Paranoia and the Pot Biz: They Will Be Forever Intertwined December 8, 2015 Allen St. Pierre Opinions 1 Comment By Allen St. Pierre There is not a good word in English if you’re paranoid, but right to be so. For the past 50 years or so, the hundreds of thousands of folks in the cannabis business have had the most… Read More→
Too Many To Count: Federal and State Cannabis Commerce Conflicts October 20, 2015 Allen St. Pierre Banking, Finance & Real Estate, Compliance and Regulations, Policy & Legal 0 Comments While attending a meeting on Capitol Hill with legislators and their staff on the myriad of over twenty proposed cannabis law reform legislation pending before Congress, a youngish legislative aide viewing a spreadsheet of all the varying bills, whilst listening… Read More→
Politics-n-Pot September 15, 2015 Allen St. Pierre Policy & Legal 1 Comment A preview of this fall’s legislative and initiative reforms for cannabis is both promising and vexing. At the federal level, while no legislation is expected to move in the Republican-controlled House and Senate on the nearly twenty bills pending (ranging… Read More→