Cannabis Law Services

Cannabis: Marijuana, Hemp, Cannabinoids (including THC & CBD)
McCabe Law assists a wide range of entities across the various sectors of the marijuana, hemp, and cannabinoid industries. Our services include:
Corporate & Business
Land Use, Zoning, Real Estate
Compliance
Licensing & Applications
Government & Policy
McCabe Law assists a wide range of entities across the various sectors of the marijuana, hemp, and cannabinoid industries. Our services include:
- Navigating federal, state, and local laws, identification of potential conflicts, and mitigation of risk.
- Legal and regulatory compliance when cultivating, marketing, selling, and/or shipping.
- Counseling on matters of logistics, policy, and strategy.
Corporate & Business
- Entity formation
- Commercial contract review, including specialized marijuana contracts
- Real estate transactions
- Advising non-cannabis companies on the legal risks involved in entering the cannabis industry
- Acting as special cannabis regulatory counsel to other law firms in corporate transactions
- Regulatory and other specialized opinions
- General regulatory and compliance counseling
Land Use, Zoning, Real Estate
- Zoning analysis
- Permits and other municipal approvals
- Abutter relationships
- Public hearings
- Zoning petitions to amend allowable locations
- Applications for special permits and other zoning relief
- Landlord & tenant incentive strategies, and negotiation
- Lease drafting, reviewing, and negotiating
- Purchase and sale agreements
- Financing strategies
Compliance
- Compliance questions: investors, business owners, and in-house compliance teams.
- Labeling and packaging regulations. Branding advice. Review of packaging and labeling designs to identify issues.
- Facility evaluations with recommendations for compliance. Itemized reports detailing potential issues and action items.
- Trainings on regulations, license type, and transitioning from medical to retail markets.
- Standardized documents, streamlined binder systems of required records, standard operating procedures, operational guides, compliance checklists, labeling guides, and employee training manuals.
Licensing & Applications
- Applications, including applications for new business licenses, license renewals, changes of ownership, changes of location, modification of premises, and occupational licensing
- Tax permits
- Hearings
- Tracking and assistance
Government & Policy
- Licensing
- Testing
- Delivery
- Product safety
- Social use
- Hemp and CBD
- Operational regulations
- Seed-to-sale tracking
- Packaging and labeling
- Community plans
- Social equity plans
- Tax and fee structures