Welcome to the brand new quick type formatted podcast that enhances my longer 30 minute one after the other Karma Koala Podcast Conversations.
Koalas get drained shortly and wish a break so I took my cue from them and created this new 5-minute format the place a present subject is shortly coated by a number one hashish business legal professional or skilled.
In our eighth mini-bite I converse with Hemp & Hashish Lawyer, Rod Kight (third in a sequence of 5 mini-bites)
What’s the regulated Hashish (Marijuana) business in opposition to the regulated hemp business.. why can't all of us love one another?
COTTA OF WINE
I’ve been an advocate for hashish reform all through my grownup life and personally skilled its useful results whereas present process chemotherapy remedies for testicular most cancers. I’ve been in remission for years. You possibly can examine my hashish legislation journey from. I’m lucky to supply authorized providers to corporations within the hashish business, together with hemp, CBD, THC, new and rising cannabinoids, and medical and grownup marijuana use.
For practically 25 years I’ve represented hundreds of companies and people in authorized issues. Throughout this time, I’ve offered authorized steerage to purchasers 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 legislation legal professional. Based mostly 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 writer of “Hashish Enterprise Legislation – What You Must Know”, printed by Aspatore Books. He served on the advisory board for the American Journal of Endocannabinoid Medication, for which he additionally wrote a authorized column. Rod additionally created the “Supply Rule”, which is extensively considered a major authorized basis for the up to date hemp market in cannabinoids and different hashish supplies.
Rod is regularly quoted on hashish points by enterprise publications and main media shops together with the Wall Avenue Journal, Time, Washington Publish, 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 Folks You Ought to Know”, and Excessive Time's “2020 Leaders in Hashish Legislation”. He served on the authorized groups in two high-profile circumstances in opposition to the DEA and the Texas Division of Well being Providers concerning hemp extracts, wrote and launched hashish laws to a overseas 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 commonly 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 legal professionals, enterprise leaders and public officers and is commonly requested to be a visitor speaker on American and worldwide podcasts about hashish and psychedelics.
Rod is a robust believer in hashish for private and medical use after efficiently utilizing it throughout chemotherapy remedies for most cancers (he’s in remission). He has been an legal professional at legislation for NORML and has additionally been a member of the Worldwide Hashish Bar Affiliation, the Nationwide Hashish Business Affiliation, the Hemp Industries Affiliation, and the Southeast Hemp Affiliation.
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