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Cannabis Law on Earth features long-form interviews with Canadian cannabis lawyer, author and filmmaker Russell Bennett.
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Dr. Daniel Bear is the Director of the Centre for Social Innovation at Humber College and has worked in Canadian and US drugs policy since 2003, when he started a chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. He went on to work with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Drug Law Reform Project where he focused on public education and outreach initiatives in support of civil and criminal cases across the United States. Dr. Bear’s doctoral work at the London School of Economics and Political Sci...
Dr. "Barb" Barbara J. Mainville, MD has been working with medical cannabis for more than 8 years following 30 years of practice in Emergency Medicine, and 30 years as a Coroner for the Province of Ontario (conducting both investigations and inquests.Barb is a member of the Canadian Consortium for the Investigation of Cannabinoids, the Society of Cannabis Clinicians, the Western Trauma Association, and the Special Operations Medical Association, as well as serving as the Medical Director for D...
Chris Nyberg’s law practice focuses on transactional and commercial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and complex commercial transactions for start-up and mid-market companies in technology, food, beverage and agribusiness, healthcare and other regulated industries. He has broad experience with a range of private equity, venture capital and other institutional investments as well as complex acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, minority investments, and cross-borde...
Crista Eggers is the Statewide Campaign Manager for Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana, a ballot committee leading the effort to put a pair of initiatives on the 2024 ballot that would legalize medical cannabis access in Nebraska. Crista has been active in lobbying for legislative efforts and with two prior ballot attempts in 2020 and 2022.Crista's passion for cannabis advocacy began when her youngest son Colton, was diagnosed with intractable epilepsy when he was two. Colton continue...
Ross Rebagliati, 52 Born 1971 North Vancouver BCDiving team 1978Swim team High school 1985Ski raced 5yrs (10-15) 1980-86Started snowboarding 1987-88Coached snowboard halfpipe camps for Craig Kelly 1988-91BC amateur series 1988 - 1991 — Won everything haha — they tried to kick me off the tour by the end.. lol USA and Canadian amateur champion Snowboarding 1990Lord Byng high school Grad 1990Moved to Whistler 1990 - 2018Cover of TransWold Snowboarding magazine 1991World Cup debut Austria 19921st...
Ted Smith is a big Boy Scout. He is constantly helping others in need, and Ted has successfully advocated human rights for decades. Ted is the Founder of the the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, Canada's oldest compassion club, which opened in 1996. He has played a large role in the battle to legalize cannabis in Canada for the past three decades and continues his advocacy work today . Since moving to Victoria in 1995 to start the International Hempology 101 Society, Ted has b...
Owen Smith is a director of the non profit Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club ("VCBC"), one of the oldest compassion clubs in Canada, with over 8000 active members, which helps members who have documented, serious medical conditions, by providing them with medicinal cannabis and cannabis based products. Owen is a cannabis subject-matter expert, possessing a wide range of cannabis industry knowledge based on two decades of working with patients, advocates, dispensaries, non-profits, producers and p...
Alison Myrden began her career as a Corrections Officer in 1988 after working with the Children's Aid Society. In addition to her website, you can find Alison at the following social media: Twitter -- LinkedIn -- Facebook -- During her career, Alison worked at troubled youth facilities around Southern Ontario and eventually solidified her niche with Young Offender cases in early 1989 at Community Resource Services. During her career, Alison was responsible for various duties inclu...
Matthew Jerome is the Founder and Chief Consultant of Meristem Cannabis Consulting, a patient-focused education company, and is Canada's first fully certified Ganjier. Matt's goal within the industry is to provide confidence when it comes to quality related decisions, which he has over 15 years of experience doing. He has been a vocal medicinal cannabis advocate for over a decade and is a board of directors’member of Educannation, a non-profit organization, as well as an advisory board member...
Matt is a partner at the Toronto law firm Torkin Manes. He is co-chair of the Cannabis Law Group and chair of the Franchise Law Group. He is also an accomplished trial and appellate lawyer in the Litigation Group with over a decade of experience advocating on behalf of his business clients. Matt provides business and regulatory advice to a wide range of cannabis industry stakeholders, including licensed producers, producer applicants, owners of businesses that provide ancillary services ...
Harrison Jordan is a Toronto-based cannabis and NFT lawyer who focuses on Canadian legal matters related to the regulated industries of cannabis, psychedelics, liquor, tobacco and gaming. See https://harrisonjordanlaw.com/ for more information.Harrison graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School and completed his articles with Paul Lewin and then opened his law practice in 2018. Harrison also practices law related to NFTs (non-fungible tokens), and you can find him online as The NFT Lawyer: https:...
Ruth Chun is a corporate commercial lawyer focused on providing legal advice to various companies from start-up to exit. Ms. Chun acted as general counsel for cannabis company Newstrike Brands Ltd., raising over $150 million in financing, from the RTO transaction with Up Cannabis Inc. and sale to HEXO Corp. for $263 million. She continues to act for highly regulated industries including psychedelics and renewable energy transactions. Ms. Chun is a sought-after speaker and is regularly called ...
Robert W.E. Laurie founded Ad Lucem Law Corporation in 2013. Robert is an international lawyer qualified in England and called to the British Columbia Bar. Robert’s legal practice focuses on commercial business, government, regulatory issues, plus charter and constitutional legalities surrounding cannabis and psychedelic plant medicines. Robert has eighteen years of policy development and legal practice in corporate, commercial, and administrative law, plus licensing, regulatory, and constitu...
Keachea Dixon is an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of New York, the Province of Ontario, and the island of Jamaica. Keachea’s law practice focuses on helping entrepreneurs and small businesses with various issues in Commercial law, Cannabis law, Entertainment law, Real Estate law, Wills & Estates law, Intellectual Property law, and Technology Law. Keachea is a co-founder and Vice President of International Business Affairs for Cannabiziac, a global member-based company hel...
Generally speaking, David Brown writes about cannabis policy and industry stuff and lives in British Columbia. He likes plants. And his beard.More specifically, David Brown is a cannabis policy analyst, regulatory affairs specialist and content manager with Stratcann.com, a Canadian cannabis industry news and information publication. David has worked in the cannabis industry for 10 years, first as a co-founder of LIFT Cannabis, which was a former news site for the medical cannabis industry. A...
Nathaniel B. Erskine-Smith, MP ("Nate") is a Canadian politician and member of the Liberal Party, he is a Member of Parliament, representing Beaches-East York. Nate became the youngest MP to be elected in the Greater Toronto Area on October 19, 2015, after a successful grassroots open nomination in December 2014. He successfully retained his seat both in the 2019 federal election and in the 2021 federal election.Prior to entering politics, Nate was a lawyer at a Toronto commercial litigation ...
Elizabeth Dipchand and Dan Pollack practise IP, corporate law and litigation at Dipchand LLP, a boutique law firm in Toronto.Elizabeth is the type of person who is driven to find intelligent solutions to problems that are not readily evident to others. As such, she regularly advises corporations on in-depth identification, acquisition, maintenance, management & leveraging and protection & enforcement of intellectual property and intangible assets. She enjoys speaking about these dynam...
Stan Benda, Ph.D. is known as The Plant Lawyer. We had a fruitful conversation that you may find very sweet.Stan practices law specializing in contracts concerning technology transfer / licensing with expertise in advanced technologies, especially agricultural biotechnology; novel foods (aka genetically modified); new plant varieties; plant breeders rights; stone fruits and in propagation, genetics, and licensing of cannabis. He also writes a blog, posting on legal issues concerning fie...
Paul Lewin and Jack Lloyd are Toronto lawyers and activists who practise in cannabis and psychedelics law at their firm, Cannabis and Psychedelics Law Group LLP.What a great conversation! Paul has represented clients across Canada for over 27 years, practising with Lewin & Sagara LLP, fighting for clients at all levels of the Ontario Courts, including the religious use of cannabis, challenging the medical cannabis doctor-as-gatekeeper rules, the constitutionality of the limited cannabis s...
Henria Stephens is our incredible Student at Law at Cannabis Law, Barristers & Solicitors.Prior to law school, Henria worked in the Agriculture, Healthcare and International Development Sectors for nearly 20 years over three continents. She has worked in small grassroots organizations and large multinational corporations. She is a champion of justice and fairness and returned to law school to hone her advocacy skills.Before joining Cannabis Law, Henria volunteered at a social justice focu...
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