Real Property Law
Cal. Real. Prop. Journal 2020, VOL. 38, NO. 4
Content
- 2020-2021 Executive Committee of the Real Property Law Section
- 2020 California Real Property Journal
- A Note from the Cannabis Law Symposium Co-Chair
- Covid-19's Impact on Leasing and Other Real Estate Transactions
- Covid-19's Impact on the Cannabis Industry
- Legal Consequences for Using or Acting as an Unregistered Broker-Dealer in the Cannabis Industry
- MCLE Self-Study Article: Attorney Ethics and Cannabis: Conflicts of Laws, Conflicts of Interest, and Attorney-Client Privilege for Cannabis Practitioners
- Message from the Editor-in-Chief
- Protection for Cannabis Properties: Bankruptcy, Receivership, and Other Alternatives to Bankruptcy
- Special Message from the Incoming Section Chair
- Table of Contents
- Cannabis, Politics, and Land Use
Cannabis, Politics, and Land Use
Julia Sylva
Julia Sylva has been a real estate/land use lawyer her entire career. She graduated from Loyola Law School, 1983, started as city attorney—where she drafted initiatives and ordinances regulating commercial cannabis—and is now in private practice. She is a former mayor and is very familiar with the politics-of-it-all. She is also an Adjunct Law Professor at Southwestern School of Law, Los Angeles, where she teaches Cannabis Law 101. Ms. Sylva also serves as a mediator and as an expert witness in real estate/land use and commercial cannabis disputes.*
Commercial cannabis activity and its regulation have evolved tremendously since America’s founding, especially during the last fifty years. This evolution affects the ways of producing, manufacturing, transporting, dispensing, and even ingesting cannabis. Cannabis has generated enormous business opportunities for states and cities, and investors and operators. The cannabis industry now boasts professional certifications and endless resources for research and development—including scholarly books and articles.
Commercial cannabis was legal in the United States until the 20th century. The federal government still deems cannabis illegal, though its regulation falls to local governments with state-by-state variation. Sometimes cannabis regulations conflict.