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Cannabis Industry Practitioners Group
Interested in receiving content and communications from the Cannabis Industry Practitioners Group?
Cannabis Industry Practitioners Group Officers
Rob Harris, Chair
William Tolin Gay, Vice Chair
Shay Aaron Gilmore, Secretary
Cannabis Industry Practitioners Group Mission Statement
The Cannabis Industry Practitioners Group (CIPG) of the California Lawyers Association is a CLA-wide group of voluntary attorneys who currently – or would like to – practice law in service of the cannabis industry and movement in California. The mission of the CIPG is to:
- Provide legal education on cannabis law issues to California lawyers who are not already practicing in this area.
- Develop networking opportunities among current cannabis law practitioners and other attorneys and professionals whose work may cross-over with cannabis law issues.
- Support California law students and newer attorneys who are interested in practicing law within the cannabis industry and movement in California.
- Articulate policy positions of California lawyers on legislative and regulatory issues impacting the cannabis industry and movement.
Recent Case Law
- California Court of Appeal, 4th District
- California Court of Appeal, 2nd District
- United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
- California Court of Appeal, 4th District
- United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
Current Legislation
- AB 374 | Allowing non-cannabis food or beverage products, and tickets for live musical or other performances, all in cannabis consumption areas on premises.
- AB 1207 | Prohibiting advertising of cannabis products in a way attractive to children. Prohibiting inhaled cannabis products from containing any flavors.
- SB 540 | Directing DCC to develop a brochure with health warnings and to re-evaluate warnings every 5 years beginning January 2025.
- SB 302 | Expanding Ryan’s Law to allow patients over 65 years of age with a chronic disease to use medicinal cannabis within a health care facility.
- SB 622 | Removing the mandatory requirement that a plastic plant tag be affixed to the base of each cannabis plant.
- SB 833 | Requiring the DCC, by no later than March 1, 2024, to allow cultivators to select a smaller license type or place their license in inactive status.
- SB 700 | Making it unlawful for an employer to request information from an applicant for employment relating to the applicant’s prior use of cannabis.
- AB 993 | Expansion of and meetings for state/local task force on cannabis regulation established by AB 195 (2022).
- AB 1126 | Specifying that a citation may be issued for unlicensed use of cannabis universal symbol.
- AB 1171 | Authorizing a licensee to bring an action in superior court against a person engaging in commercial cannabis activity without a license.
- AB 1448 | Authorizing local governments to assess an administrative penalty for illicit cannabis activity.
- AB 1684 | Allowing local jurisdiction to declare unlicensed commercial cannabis activity a public nuisance.
- SB 753 | Providing that a person engaging in cultivation of cannabis that results in environmental harm to surface or groundwater may be charged with a felony.
- SB 756 ENACTED | Providing explicit authority to the State Water Resources Control Board and regional water boards to inspect an unlicensed cannabis cultivation site.
- AB 1272 | Requiring the SWRCB to adopt principles and guidelines for the diversion and use of water in coastal watersheds during times of water shortage.
- SB 51 | Authorizing the DCC to issue a provisional license for a local equity applicant for retailer activities, indefinitely.
Webinars
Overview
Original Air Date: 9/24/2020
2020 Annual Meeting: The New Green Legal Cannabis Rush: Is it For Everyone?
Original Air Date: 10/7/2020
2020 Solo & Small Firm Summit: Cannabis and Hemp Law: Green Rush or Land Mine?
Employment
Original Air Date: 9/3/2020
Work and Weed: What Lawyers Need to Know about Cannabis in the Workplace
Intellectual Property
Original Air Date: 10/10/20
Cannabis Intellectual Property Law Nuts & Bolts
Original Air Date: 11/9/2020
Shelter In Place Institute: Cannabis & IP Law Litigation 2020 Update
Original Air Date: 3/10/2020
Trademarks & Cannabis Law
Original Air Date: 1/29/2020
Introduction to IP & Cannabis Law
Original Air Date: 10/21/2020
Trade Secrets in Cannabis
Original Air Date: 11/10/2021
45th Annual IP Institute: Shifting Tokes — Cannabis-Related Patents in a Changing World
Original Air Date: 4/22/2021
Rolling with Patents: IP in Cannabis and Recent Cannabis Patent Litigation
Original Air Date: 7/1/2021
Summer Cannabis (Law) Series: Protecting Cannabis IP in an Uncertain Legal Landscape
International Law
Original Air Date: 1/19/2022
Cannabis and Hemp: Opportunities and Pitfalls for the Foreign Investor
Public Law
Original Air Date: 10/22/2021
Hot Topics in Cannabis Licensing and Regulatory Activity-What Every Cannabis Lawyer Should Know
Real Property
Environmental Law
Original Air Date: 8/12/2021
The California Cannabis Rush: The Interplay Between Cannabis, Environmental Laws and Regulations
Ethics & Professional Responsibility/Competency
Original Air Date: 12/7/2020
The Ethics of Working with Cannabis Clients – High Times, or Buzz Kill?
Original Release Date: 2020
COPRAC Opinion 2020-202
Original Release Date: 2020
Attorney Ethics and Cannabis: Conflicts of Laws, Conflicts of Interest, and Attorney-Client Privilege for Cannabis Practitioners
Elimination of Bias
Original Air Date: 8/5/2021
True Color of Marijuana – Stirring the Racial Justice Pot
Taxation
Trusts and Estates
Intellectual Property Cannabis Interest Group
Intellectual Property Cannabis Interest Group
Participate in the IP Property Cannabis Interest Group which offers frequent webinar presentations and community discussions of hot topics and practice tips.
The Interest Groups of the IP Section are open to all IP Section members interested in participating. The groups have regular meetings open to all members of the IP Section. They also present educational programs focused on the needs of various IP practices.
All of the interest groups send periodic e-mail bulletins to their members. As an IP Law Section member, you can sign up for the IP Cannabis Interest Group to receive notifications in all areas that interest you.
For more information, contact the Intellectual Property Law Section at IP@calawyers.org.
Announcements of meetings and CLE programs are included in Inevitable Disclosures, which is sent to all members of the Section.
Not a member of the IP Section and want to join the Interest Group? Join IP Section Here and then sign up for the Interest Group Here.
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