Robert Hoban
www.Hoban.Law. Bob serves on the faculty of the University of Denver Colorado Women's College and University College, teaching cannabis policy-related courses. And he is an AV® Preeminent™ rated attorney and seasoned full-service commercial practitioner.
In addition to serving as a cannabis policy professor at the University of Denver since 2011, my law firm is the largest, most experienced, and the only national cannabis law firm in the country.
Let me know if we can assist -- www.hoban.law.
Our firm's media room has a great deal of related content that you may find useful - https://hoban.law/media-center
Bob is a regular speaker at cannabis, medical marijuana, hemp, and drug policy reform conferences around the world.
Address: United States
In addition to serving as a cannabis policy professor at the University of Denver since 2011, my law firm is the largest, most experienced, and the only national cannabis law firm in the country.
Let me know if we can assist -- www.hoban.law.
Our firm's media room has a great deal of related content that you may find useful - https://hoban.law/media-center
Bob is a regular speaker at cannabis, medical marijuana, hemp, and drug policy reform conferences around the world.
Address: United States
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newly enacted state laws, state regulations, and local rules/ordinances concerning the emerging
and very profitable commercial cannabis industry in Colorado. Specifically, this presentation is
intended to address the actions of (mostly) local governments that have passed laws/regulations
that would ban, eliminate, or temporarily suspend (often times retroactively) commercial cannabis
businesses in Colorado.
Marijuana Industry
• Municipal ordinances
• Zoning rules
• Leases
• Other regulations
Growers and Dispensaries
• Selecting your business structure
• Advantages of incorporation
Coloradans may remember 2010 as the year of the pot plant. Media headlines tirelessly documented medical marijuana’s tremendous and diverse impacts on the state’s economy and local communities. Still, a major part of the story has not yet been told.
The years to come promise a far more compelling conversation. Decisions about the legal use of marijuana may radically transform how Americans view their rights as citizens, businesses, patients, and individuals in a multitude of unrelated legal contexts. This promises to affect citizens’ practical and philosophical views on the federal government’s role in their lives as citizens of one nation and of individual states.
The core issue is whether the U.S. Constitution grants the federal government an unqualified privilege to intervene in states where drug laws conflict with those at the federal level. As this article explains, a U.S. Supreme Court case from several years ago answers that question in the affirmative. It is notable, however, that the Court’s conclusion was based on a set of facts and state laws that were distinguishable from what Colorado has on its books today.
This article analyzes recent constitutional challenges to state and local regulations pertaining to the cultivation and distribution of medical marijuana. It discusses the debate over the judicial scrutiny properly applied to the aforementioned challenges, including whether Colorado’s restrictions prohibiting nonresident entry into the state’s medical marijuana industry can survive a broader constitutional muster.
Talks by Robert Hoban
Teaching Documents by Robert Hoban
nation’s first medical marijuana statewide regulatory scheme. Then, in 2013, Colorado passed the
nation’s first statewide recreational marijuana regulatory program. Marijuana regulation (as distinct
from the merits of marijuana policy) has its critics, its passionate advocates, and its governmental
supporters. However, does marijuana regulation work? What are the measures? Is this regulation
effective? Are their distinct models of regulation? How can it be improved?
This research project will endeavor to answer some of these questions. Because this issue is novel, and
because no one in the nation has attempted such an undertaking, the project necessarily will require both
traditional and non-traditional research methods. The research will include combing through public data
by contacting and interviewing various state and local agencies. It will also begin with a review of the
vast body of news media reporting on this topic.
The primary course objective is for Students to assist the instructor with preparing a report that will seek
to identify and answer some of the questions posed above. Through this process, Students will gain
global knowledge and understanding about the government, its regulations, policy advocacy groups, activists, and governmental agencies. Students will have an opportunity to select one area of
measurement/inquiry and will be required to document all phases of their research. The final paper will
include a well written piece documenting the research undertaken; an annotated bibliography, in
addition to other substantive research items that are related to the project as a whole.
Students are expected to perform at exemplary levels demonstrating advanced research, written and
public speaking skills, professionalism, sophisticated analysis, critical reasoning and sound judgment,
especially as concerns contact with outside bar associations, lawyers and others during the course of the
research.
Speaking Engagements/Conferences by Robert Hoban
newly enacted state laws, state regulations, and local rules/ordinances concerning the emerging
and very profitable commercial cannabis industry in Colorado. Specifically, this presentation is
intended to address the actions of (mostly) local governments that have passed laws/regulations
that would ban, eliminate, or temporarily suspend (often times retroactively) commercial cannabis
businesses in Colorado.
Marijuana Industry
• Municipal ordinances
• Zoning rules
• Leases
• Other regulations
Growers and Dispensaries
• Selecting your business structure
• Advantages of incorporation
Coloradans may remember 2010 as the year of the pot plant. Media headlines tirelessly documented medical marijuana’s tremendous and diverse impacts on the state’s economy and local communities. Still, a major part of the story has not yet been told.
The years to come promise a far more compelling conversation. Decisions about the legal use of marijuana may radically transform how Americans view their rights as citizens, businesses, patients, and individuals in a multitude of unrelated legal contexts. This promises to affect citizens’ practical and philosophical views on the federal government’s role in their lives as citizens of one nation and of individual states.
The core issue is whether the U.S. Constitution grants the federal government an unqualified privilege to intervene in states where drug laws conflict with those at the federal level. As this article explains, a U.S. Supreme Court case from several years ago answers that question in the affirmative. It is notable, however, that the Court’s conclusion was based on a set of facts and state laws that were distinguishable from what Colorado has on its books today.
This article analyzes recent constitutional challenges to state and local regulations pertaining to the cultivation and distribution of medical marijuana. It discusses the debate over the judicial scrutiny properly applied to the aforementioned challenges, including whether Colorado’s restrictions prohibiting nonresident entry into the state’s medical marijuana industry can survive a broader constitutional muster.
nation’s first medical marijuana statewide regulatory scheme. Then, in 2013, Colorado passed the
nation’s first statewide recreational marijuana regulatory program. Marijuana regulation (as distinct
from the merits of marijuana policy) has its critics, its passionate advocates, and its governmental
supporters. However, does marijuana regulation work? What are the measures? Is this regulation
effective? Are their distinct models of regulation? How can it be improved?
This research project will endeavor to answer some of these questions. Because this issue is novel, and
because no one in the nation has attempted such an undertaking, the project necessarily will require both
traditional and non-traditional research methods. The research will include combing through public data
by contacting and interviewing various state and local agencies. It will also begin with a review of the
vast body of news media reporting on this topic.
The primary course objective is for Students to assist the instructor with preparing a report that will seek
to identify and answer some of the questions posed above. Through this process, Students will gain
global knowledge and understanding about the government, its regulations, policy advocacy groups, activists, and governmental agencies. Students will have an opportunity to select one area of
measurement/inquiry and will be required to document all phases of their research. The final paper will
include a well written piece documenting the research undertaken; an annotated bibliography, in
addition to other substantive research items that are related to the project as a whole.
Students are expected to perform at exemplary levels demonstrating advanced research, written and
public speaking skills, professionalism, sophisticated analysis, critical reasoning and sound judgment,
especially as concerns contact with outside bar associations, lawyers and others during the course of the
research.