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McAllister Garfield is proud to work with American Indian tribes leading the way on cannabis issues in Indian country. Here is a Press Release from the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, who recently adopted a Tribal Ordinance legalizing CBD production and use on tribal lands, as well as paving the way for development of […]

Last week, Congress passed a stop-gap omnibus spending bill that include provisions that continue to block the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) from interfering with state-law compliant medical marijuana programs through December 8, 2017. Congress also extended protections prohibiting DOJ from interfering with Farm Bill compliant hemp programs. This is good news for medical marijuana […]

Sean McAllister is licensed to practice law in both Colorado and California, and McAllister Garfield has lawyers in every major city in California (San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco). Sean was quoted in a New York Times article discussing the rollout of the regulated cannabis market in California. California will be the largest cannabis market […]

Check out Dan Garfield’s interview with the Rocky Mountain Business Forum about the legal field and the marijuana industry.

Denver Relief Consulting, Marijuana Policy Group, and McAllister Garfield, P.C. have collaborated to produce the 2017 California Cannabis Opportunity Report, available starting Thursday, August 31. Subject matter experts on the economic, financial, policy, and legal landscape of the cannabis industry have come together to publish an informative and innovative report about the California cannabis marketplace […]

   

McAllister Garfield, P.C. is a leading law firm defending marijuana businesses from MED enforcement actions. We recently submitted open records requests to the MED for all enforcement action settlement agreements from January 2016 to June 2017. The released records confirmed that McAllister Garfield handled the most cases out of our competitors. We take pride in […]

Author: Garrett L. Davey, Esq. Tribes seeking to grow industrial hemp programs on reservations may no longer have to worry about the legality of using federal water reserves. Last week, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee approved the Energy & Water Development appropriations bill for 2018. Within this bill is the Industrial Hemp Water Rights Act, […]

Author: David R. Wunderlich, Esq. Third party couriers may no longer transport marijuana and marijuana-infused products in Colorado without a transporter license issued by the Marijuana Enforcement Division (the “MED”). We have received many calls this past month from couriers, cultivators and dispensaries trying to discern the impact of the new transporter license on their businesses. […]