Welcome to the brand new quick kind formatted podcast that enhances my longer 30 minute one after the other Karma Koala Podcast Conversations.
Koalas get drained rapidly and wish a break so I took my cue from them and created this new 5-minute format the place a present subject is rapidly lined by a number one hashish business lawyer or skilled.
In our ninth mini-bite I communicate with Hemp & Hashish Lawyer, Rod Kight (4th in a sequence of 5 mini-bites)
Ought to I pivot my hemp cannabinoid enterprise?
COTTA OF WINE
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 legislation journey from. I’m lucky to offer authorized companies to corporations within the hashish business, 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 supplied 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 lawyer. Primarily based in North Carolina and Mexico, Rod represents hashish authorized companies around the globe and is editor and lead author for the Kight On Hashish authorized weblog. Rod is the writer of “Hashish Enterprise Regulation – What You Must Know”, revealed 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 considered a major authorized basis for the up to date 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 Avenue Journal, Time, Washington Submit, Politico and Enterprise Insider. Salon.com revealed 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 Regulation”. He served on the authorized groups in two high-profile instances in opposition to the DEA and the Texas Division of Well being Companies concerning hemp extracts, wrote and launched hashish laws to a overseas head of state, is a member of the board of administrators. of a Canadian publicly traded hashish and psychedelic firm, has testified to the FDA on CBD and hashish compounds, and is a accomplice in a Mexican import-export firm centered on authorized cross-border transactions of hemp. Rod often 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 often 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 working towards 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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