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Forum -- Marijuana Legalization: Legal and Practical Issues in California

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Please join us on for a forum addressing the legal and practical implications of the California initiatve to tax and regulate marijuana, which will be on the ballot this fall. If a state were to legalize cannabis, as California's Proposition 19, or A.B. 2254, the Ammiano bill, are attempting to do, what legal tools might the federal government use to block operation of such laws? Additional areas of law - employment law, family law, municipal law, insurance law, corrections policy - would be implicated. What are the issues?

Please join the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers and our panel of experts in addressing the legal and practical issues when a state legalizes cannabis. CD'S with comprehensive literature will be available for attendees.

Speakers:

Sheriff Thomas D. Allman - Mendocino County Sheriff

Tom Ammiano - Assemblymember, 13th District, California

Robert Hirshon, Esq. - Professor of Law, University of Michigan; former President, American Bar Association

Allen Hopper, Esq. - Legal Director, ACLU Drug Law Reform Project

Alex Kreit, Esq. - Associate Professor of Law; Director, Center for Law and Social Justice, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Theshia Naidoo, Esq. - Staff Attorney, Office of Legal Affairs, Drug Policy Alliance

Moderators:

Roger E. Goodman, Esq. - State Representative, 45th District, Washington State; Executive Director, Voluntary Committee of Lawyers

Eric E. Sterling, Esq. - President, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation; President, Voluntary Committee of Lawyers

The forum is open to the public, and is followed by a reception from 6-7pm to give you a chance to meet our guest speakers and to network with attorneys and others attending.

Location

Grand Hyatt San Francisco
Hiram W. Johnson State Office Building -- Milton Marks Auditorium
455 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco, CA
United States

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