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Over the past few years, I have received countless requests to help people reduce liability when operating a foreign retreat. Most of these retreats involve ketamine, psilocybin, ayahuasca, and/or cannabis. Typical locations include Jamaica, Costa Rica, and Mexico. The laws in these countries, discussed below, can allow operators to conduct retreats with limited exposure if
Facilitating International Psychedelic Retreats
A potential expansion of the religious use of psychedelic substances
The end of 2024 marks two years in the books for the Oregon Psilocybin Services (OPS) program. It has been a long road: in my year-end 2023 post, I explained that the program was incubated on a protracted, two-year runway prior to launch. This mean we are four years along, with two years of live
Oregon’s rule limiting the non-resident ownership of licensed psilocybin businesses sunsets on December 31, 2024. That’s a little over six months away. Six months is not that long, especially in the context of getting to know an industry or a business, and putting a thoughtful deal together– one that will generate reasonable returns for an
Your leverage is usually strongest before your China factory knows you are leaving and before your plans in the new country become obvious to everyone else. That window does not stay open for long. Once it closes, fixing trademark gaps, tooling problems, and bad contracts becomes slower, more expensive, and much more difficult. Sometimes it does not just make the exit harder. Sometimes it makes the exit fail.
Doing Business Internationally: Why Your International Lawyer Should Handle Your Domestic Work Too There are times when you absolutely need a local specialist. A real estate lawyer who knows Oregon title issues, a New York tax lawyer, a California employment litigator. Some legal work is local, and it is a mistake to pretend otherwise. But
International Arbitration in Cross-Border Contracts: What Companies Get Wrong An industrial pump company signs a supply agreement with an overseas supplier, receives eight million dollars’ worth of defective goods, and does what seems logical: it sues in the supplier’s home court. Five years later, it has spent more on legal fees than the amount in
China Exit Bans for Foreign Executives: The Commercial Dispute Risk Nobody Plans For You are at the airport with a boarding pass in hand, heading home after meetings. The China immigration officer scans your passport, pauses, types, and asks you to step aside. A few minutes later you are told you cannot leave China. No
Foreign companies often lose U.S. distribution opportunities for a simple reason: their factory can’t deliver what their distributor contract promised. The fix isn’t complicated, but it’s often ignored–your U.S. distribution agreement and your China manufacturing contract have to be drafted as one integrated system.
