I may have found my next career. A neighbor of mine in Provincetown is making progress towards obtaining a license to grow and sell medical marijuana. I offered to do quality control for him. He demurred, but I haven’t given up. Of course, I might to offer to be his lawyer, but that might be more difficult.
The Connecticut Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Professional Ethics recently tried to give lawyers wishing to do this work some guidance. You see, even though many states have passed medical marijuana laws, and two states have decriminalized personal possession and use of the drug, it still remains illegal under federal law to grow and sell marijuana. Though the White House seems to have decreed that enforcement policy is something between benign neglect and “don’t ask, don’t tell,” no one knows where the whole thing is going to end up.
