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High Crimes: Liability For Directors Of Retail Marijuana Corporations, Lauren A. Newell Apr 2020

High Crimes: Liability For Directors Of Retail Marijuana Corporations, Lauren A. Newell

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Selling retail marijuana in the United States is illegal — or is it? A rising number of states have legalized the retail sale of marijuana and are busily regulating these sales and the companies that make them. Even so, the sale of marijuana is a crime under federal law. Are companies that sell retail marijuana duly sanctioned, productive contributors to their state economies, or are they felons just waiting for the wheels of justice to turn in their direction? At this moment, no one can answer that question with certainty.

What is certain is that more companies are being formed …