A menudo escribo sobre diversos aspectos concretos de las operaciones de fusiones y adquisiciones en el sector del cannabis. Al final de esta entrada encontrarás un enlace a la lista completa de mis publicaciones, junto con las Canna Law Blog otros Canna Law Blog . Hoy, en lugar de analizar elementos concretos de una operación de fusiones y adquisiciones en el sector del cannabis, quiero explicar cómo es una operación de este tipo
Some readers may be surprised to realize that a lot of cannabis stakeholders actually don’t want broadsweeping federal legalization. Why? Because they know it means that they’ll instantly be competing with well-established companies that are already masters of economies of scale, branding, marketing, and consumer sales, and their market share will shrink or be eliminated
Back in 2015, we wrote about the U.S. Postal Service (“USPS”) taking issue with companies placing cannabis ads in the mail. In a written notice dated November 27, 2015, issued by the Portland, Oregon, District Mailing Requirements Office, the USPS explained: [i]f a mailpiece contains an advertisement for marijuana, that mailpiece is nonmailable” where the
Si todavía te ves obligado a hacer de abogado de vez en cuando —o incluso todo el tiempo— con los contratos de tu negocio de cannabis, esta entrada es para ti. Crecí en la zona rural de Wisconsin con unos padres que se criaron tras la Gran Depresión. Mis padres tenían un montón de hijos, y
Cannabis licensing has a pretty standard trajectory by this point in time. States tend to start out with medical programs and later adopt recreational programs. What usually happens is that the recreational cannabis market swallows up the medical market. The majority of medical operators will seek out and get authorization to sell recreational cannabis, and
Aunque algunos actores del sector las consideran una medida proteccionista y de carácter local, los requisitos de residencia para obtener licencias de cannabis han sido un elemento básico del sector desde que Washington y Colorado legalizaron el cannabis en todo su territorio en 2012. Cuando vivía en Seattle, el sector local estaba muy entusiasmado por el hecho de que el «gran capital» y los intereses de fuera del estado no pudieran colarse fácilmente en la fiesta que
My last post in this series, which ran a few weeks ago, went over some of the more common representations and warranties you’d see in the average cannabis M&A transaction. In that post, I briefly mentioned disclosure schedules, which are an integral part of a purchase agreement and its reps and warranties. Today, I’ll get
Hay muchas formas erróneas de montar un negocio de cannabis, y nos gusta pensar que las hemos visto todas. Pero probablemente no haya nada peor que una propiedad al 50 % de un negocio: una receta para todo tipo de desastres. Veamos por qué es así y algunas formas de evitarlo.
We wrote a couple of times about the Department of Cannabis Control’s (DCC) proposed emergency regulations. See here and here. Under those regulations, some interesting changes were proposed around the definitions of owners and financial interest holders, alongside restrictions on license stacking on “contiguous” premises (among other things). On September 15, 2021, the DCC submitted
Last Friday and Saturday, members of the Oregon Bar gathered (online) for the third annual Cannabis Law Institute (CLI) put on by the Cannabis and Psychedelics Law Section of the Oregon State Bar. Topics included agricultural liens and receiverships, securities in the cannabis industry, federal and state hemp updates, Oregon’s Psilocybin Act, and the failures
