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T.H.C.: Teaching the Happenings in Cannabis, 2022


Total Credits: 3.25 CLE

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Categories:
Business & Commercial Law |  Criminal Litigation |  Family Law |  Real Property
Faculty:
Chadwick L Campbell |  Jane Fix |  George Griffeth |  Michael Ryan Hurley |  Sonia Martinez |  Ira M Schwartz |  Gary M Smith
Duration:
03:09
Original Program Date:
Dec 09, 2022


Description

Members of the Arizona Cannabis Bar Association will present an overview of 2022 legal updates in the areas of family, dependency, expungements, and Arizona's social equity program.  

The group will also cover:
    • Title and escrow aspects of  cannabis-related real estate transactions, 
    • New tips on cultivation management services agreements and how to keep your client compliant with cannabis laws, and 
    • Protecting a cannabis business brand. 

Finally, members of the Arizona cannabis business community will present on:
    • What changes recreational use has brought into the dispensary product lines, 
    • Medical patient advocacy, as well as 
    • Arizona cannabis safety testing rules and regulations.


Faculty:
Jane Fix, Director of Patient Services, Sol Flower Dispensaries
Ryan Hurley, Copperstate Farms
George Griffeth, Level One Labs
Ira Schwartz, Parker Schwartz, PLLC
Chadwick Campbell, Thomas Title and Escrow

Chairpersons:
Sonia Martinez, Law Office of Sonia Martinez*
Gary Smith, Guidant Law*

*Also serving as panelists.

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Faculty

Chadwick L Campbell Related seminars and products

Senior Counsel


Chadwick Campbell is responsible for Underwriting and National Commercial Business Development for Thomas Title & Escrow. As a lawyer, advisor, technology leader, and military officer, his career focus has been complex issue management.  Since 2015, he has been advising clients on financial and insurance matters. Chad is essentially a deal facilitator—providing underwriting support to our title team, and working with clients to connect them to the various services and resources that Thomas Title offers.
 
Chad served four years in the U.S. Air Force as an aircraft maintenance officer, which included combat duty with a squadron of F-15E fighter jets. After law school, he practiced in Arizona as a civil litigation attorney. In London and Chicago, he ran the EMEA and development operations for a financial-industry software firm. In 2015, he returned to his home state of Arizona, and as a Director for a boutique insurance advisory firm, assisted individual and corporate clients with private placement investments and sophisticated insurance strategies.
 
He lives in Phoenix with his wife and their three children. He founded a junior tennis program, and is actively involved in the tennis and autism communities. He volunteers at his children’s schools, and serves on the Board of Directors of two nonprofits in Phoenix.
 
Education and Professional Qualifications
  • University of Arizona, Rogers College of Law, Juris Doctor
  • Duke University, School of Engineering, B.S.E. Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
  • FINRA Series 7 and 66 securities licenses (2015-2020)
 Community Service and Affiliations
  • Chair, State Bar of Arizona, Real Property Section Executive Council (Member, 2019 – present; Chair, 2021-22)
  • Member, Arizona Cannabis Bar Association (2019 – present)
  • Member, Valley Partnership (2019 – present)
  • Valley Leadership (Valley Leadership Institute, Class 38)
  • Urban Land Institute Associate Member (2018 – present) ULI Arizona NEXT program (2019 – present)
  • Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center, Board of Directors (2018 – present), Planned Giving Professional Advisory Council (2016 - 2019)
  • Board of Directors, Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona (Member, 2016 – present; President, 2021-2022)
  • Program Director, ACEing Autism – Phoenix (2017 – present)
  • Duke University Alumni Admissions Advisory Committee (2009 – present)
  • Committee Chair, Phoenix Country Day School Parents’ Association (2015 – 2019)
  • Member, United States Tennis Association – Phoenix District, Junior Team Tennis Committee (2018-2020)


Jane Fix Related seminars and products


Jane Fix, Director of Patient Services at Sol Flower Dispensaries, is a medical cannabis patient advocate and spokesperson who has been actively involved in the educational sector of Arizona’s industry since 2011.  Fix began her foray into the cannabis space at a local caregiver collective and quickly rose through the ranks to manage and direct facility operations.  During her time as a caregiver, Fix recognized a lack of resources for new patients and on a greater scale, a comprehensive patient services program for the industry.  With a background in botany and a degree in education from Arizona State University, Fix pivoted her expertise to the burgeoning cannabis space.  She went on to spend four years as Head of Patient Services for Monarch Dispensary in Scottsdale, where she was voted one of the Top Ten Influential Women in Arizona Cannabis by Women Grow.  In 2016, she was appointed Director of Patient Services at Sol Flower Dispensaries by Copperstate Farms.  A firm believer in cannabis as medicine, Fix specializes in working with new patients, focusing on senior and women’s health.  As Director of Patient Services, Fix leads the programming for Sol Flower’s educational wellness classroom in Sun City.  The mixed-use dispensary complex is the first-of-its-kind in Arizona to have an adjoining café and classroom accessible to the public.  Fix oversees class curriculum which includes cannabis 101, medical cannabis for seniors, a guide to essential oils, and more. She also offers free one-on-one consultations for patients.  Named an Inspirational Member of the Cannafriends community, Fix has presented at large-scale cannabis conferences throughout the country and devotes much of her time to industry advocacy efforts while supporting and guiding patient welfare.


George Griffeth Related seminars and products


George Griffeth is the co-founder and CEO of Level One Labs, an analytical cannabis testing laboratory in South Scottsdale.  George is also a co-founder and Executive Director of the Arizona Cannabis Laboratory Association (ACLA).  George is a graduate of Arizona State and Hamline Law.  He is a member of the State Bar of Arizona, State Bar of Colorado (Inactive), The US District Court for the District of Arizona and The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  George started Level One with his sons, Conner and Brian.


Michael Ryan Hurley Related seminars and products

General Counsel


Ryan Hurley is General Counsel at Copperstate Farms, the largest cannabis grower in the Southwest.  Prior to joining Copperstate, Ryan was a partner at Rose Law Group, Rich, Hurley in Scottsdale, AZ where he led the firm’s Marijuana Practice Group.  He has a background in land use and zoning law, environmental and water issues, renewable energy and a wide variety of regulatory compliance and administrative law issues.  Ryan and the Marijuana Practice Group assisted clients with all aspects of AZ’s Medical Marijuana law primarily focusing on the business of MMJ and helping clients apply for and secure dispensary licenses from the AZ Department of Health Services.  Mr. Hurley has been working on AZ’s MMJ law even before it was passed, and he had significant input on the ultimate Rules that AZDHS developed.  He is a frequent presenter at marijuana seminars and conferences throughout the country and is a tireless advocate for marijuana reform in myriad interviews and appearances on TV, print and radio.  Mr. Hurley was the attorney for the Arizona Campaign to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol a committee to legalize marijuana for adult-use in Arizona in 2016 and is one of the founding members of the National Cannabis Industry Association.   Ryan has been committed to the entire cannabis space from day one and continues to be a thought leader for this emerging industry.


Sonia Martinez Related seminars and products

Owner


Sonia Martinez was recently appointed as a Judge Pro Tem for Maricopa County Justice Courts. For the past thirteen years, she has been the principal and owner of her own law firm in Mesa, Arizona. She also works in Indian Country and is licensed to practice in over 8 local tribal courts. She focuses her practice on representing tribal and non tribal members in their private family, dependency and criminal law matters. She has also been working with small businesses and tribal governments respecting issues with the Arizona’s Medical Marijuana Act since 2010, and is the Vice President of the Arizona Cannabis Lawyer’s Association. Ms. Martinez graduated Magna Cum Laude from Southwestern Law School as a John J. Schumacher Minority Leader Scholar and earned special United States Congressional recognition for Outstanding and Invaluable Public Service to the Community in 2004.


Licensed to practice law first in California in 2004, Ms. Martinez is the past Co-Chair of the Arizona State Bar Committee on Minorities and Women in the Law, Co-Chair of the 2015 State Bar Convention, Chair of the 2013 Minority Bar Convention, Past President of the Native American Bar Association of Arizona, and teaches a special seminar class at the ASU Indian Legal Program on representing criminal defendants in tribal court.


Ms. Martinez also serves on the Board of Directors and is the Compliance Officer for the United Food Bank, past board member for Whisper & Thunder, and Board Member for MomForce USA. In addition, she is a panel member on the selection committee for the Arizona State Bar Leadership Institute, and presented as a panelist at dozens of educational seminars. She is also a team member for the Maricopa County Superior Court Judicial Performance Review Commission Conference Teams. Most importantly, she is a mother of two daughters ages 24 and 15, and grandmother of two.


Ira M Schwartz Related seminars and products

Parker Schwartz PLLC


Ira M. Schwartz is a partner in Parker Schwartz, PLLC located in Phoenix, Arizona.  He practices primarily in the intellectual property area, representing a broad range of clients from large corporations and universities, to small and medium sized high tech businesses, to individual artists, authors and inventors.  His practice includes litigating and defending patent, trademark, and copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation cases in federal courts, state courts, and through arbitration; and transactional work including preparing licensing and royalty agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, technology related employment agreements and restrictive covenants; and prosecuting copyright and trademark applications, both in the U.S. and internationally. Mr. Schwartz lectures frequently on the topics of Computer and Internet Law, Intellectual Property Law and International Arbitration of Intellectual Property Disputes.  He is a past Board member of the International Technology Law Association (ITechLaw) and a past president of the Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of Arizona. Mr. Schwartz is also a Judge Pro Tempore of the Arizona Superior Court.  In addition to his active intellectual property litigation practice, he regularly serves as a mediator and an arbitrator.  


Gary M Smith Related seminars and products

Guidant Law PLC


Gary Smith, Esq.

Guidant Law
smith@guidant.law
(602) 888-9969

A seasoned litigator, advisor, mediator, and arbitrator with Guidant Law Firm, Gary Smith is one of the leading cannabis attorneys in Arizona, often advocating for Alternative Dispute Resolution in the industry. Notably, he served as amici counsel to the former Director of the Arizona Department of Health Services in the Arizona Supreme Court petition State v. Jones, restoring cannabis extracts and concentrates to legal status under the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act. He has also represented dispensary owners and investors in multi-million-dollar litigation and receivership disputes.

Gary has published numerous articles about cannabis law, and he is commonly invited to share his expertise with professional associations and industry groups. A founder and current president of the Arizona Cannabis Bar Association, Gary also serves on the board of directors for the Arizona Cannabis Chamber of Commerce.

Additionally, Gary wrote Psychedelica Lex, the preeminent legal manual for individuals and organizations with an interest in psychedelics and entheogens. He expands on many of the book’s themes in his popular Psychedelica Lex podcast, bringing on some of the leading figures in the field for engaging conversations that often also address cannabis issues.

Gary has represented a wide range of individual and institutional clients in both State and Federal courts, administrative hearings, and arbitration. He earned his Juris Doctor from the California Western School of Law.


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