Welcome to the brand new brief type formatted podcast that enhances my longer 30 minute one after the other Karma Koala Podcast Conversations.
Koalas get drained shortly and want a break so I took my cue from them and created this new 5-minute format the place a present matter is shortly coated by a number one hashish trade lawyer or skilled.
In our tenth mini-bite I communicate with Hemp & Hashish Lawyer, Rod Kight (fifth in a collection of 5 mini-bites)
Which states say no to ban cannabinoids derived from hemp.. Ought to I take my enterprise right here?
ROD KNIGHT
I’ve been an advocate for hashish reform all through my grownup life and personally skilled its helpful results whereas present process chemotherapy therapies for testicular most cancers. I’ve been in remission for years. You possibly can examine my hashish regulation journey from. I’m lucky to supply authorized providers to corporations within the hashish trade, together with hemp, CBD, THC, new and rising cannabinoids, and medical and grownup marijuana use.
For nearly 25 years I’ve represented hundreds of companies and people in authorized issues. Throughout this time, I’ve offered authorized steerage to shoppers masking a variety of enterprise points, together with entity formation, contract drafting and negotiation, shareholder disputes, joint ventures, mergers, points tax, mental property safety, business litigation, appeals, asset gross sales, chapter, and dissolution.
Rod's skilled biography
Rod is a business hashish regulation lawyer. Primarily based in North Carolina and Mexico, Rod represents hashish authorized companies all over the world and is editor and lead author for the Kight On Hashish authorized weblog. Rod is the creator of “Hashish Enterprise Legislation – What You Must Know”, printed by Aspatore Books. He served on the advisory board for the American Journal of Endocannabinoid Drugs, for which he additionally wrote a authorized column. Rod additionally created the “Supply Rule”, which is extensively thought to be a major authorized basis for the modern hemp market in cannabinoids and different hashish supplies.
Rod is ceaselessly quoted on hashish points by enterprise publications and main media shops together with the Wall Road Journal, Time, Washington Submit, Politico and Enterprise Insider. Salon.com printed an opinion piece that Rod wrote about hemp. Moreover, Rod has been listed on MG Journal's record of “30 Highly effective Litigators”, Hemp Connoisseur Journal's record of “100 Individuals You Ought to Know”, and Excessive Time's “2020 Leaders in Hashish Legislation”. He served on the authorized groups in two high-profile instances towards the DEA and the Texas Division of Well being Companies relating to hemp extracts, wrote and launched hashish laws to a international head of state, is a member of the board of administrators. of a publicly traded Canadian hashish and psychedelic firm, has testified to the FDA on CBD and hashish compounds, and is a accomplice in a Mexican import-export firm targeted on authorized cross-border hemp transactions. Rod repeatedly advises in-house counsel and C-suite executives on hashish issues. He has mentioned the authorized problems with hashish in quite a few seminars to attorneys, enterprise leaders and public officers and is repeatedly requested to be a visitor speaker on American and worldwide podcasts about hashish and psychedelics.
Rod is a powerful believer in hashish for private and medical use after efficiently utilizing it throughout chemotherapy therapies for most cancers (he’s in remission). He has been a practising lawyer for NORML and has additionally been a member of the Worldwide Hashish Bar Affiliation, the Nationwide Hashish Trade Affiliation, the Hemp Industries Affiliation, and the Southeast Hemp Affiliation.
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