Michael Levinsohn is a criminal and civil defense attorney with 20 years of experience representing people in all areas of the cannabis industry, including patients, cultivators, retailers, and healthcare providers. We catch up on new developments in cannabis law since last we spoke, including 



Ryan’s Law, which requires California hospitals providing palliative care allow terminally ill patients to use cannabis The likely reason Ryan’s Law is restricted to terminally ill patients and what hospitals and providers will have to do to accommodate this new requirementThe possibility that other states will follow California’s lead and enact requirements that are similar to Ryan’s Law Restrictions that prevent healthcare providers from recommending, developing, and endorsing cannabis-based therapeutics The likelihood that the MORE Act, which is a federal legalization bill, will become law  What a more realistic federal legalization path looks like 



Mr. Levinsohn will get into each of these issues and more at CannMed 2022 where he will be giving an oral presentation “The Legal Obligations of Cannabis Doctors and The Role of The Law in Cannabis Medicine“. So if you are a physician, nurse, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or any type of healthcare provider interested in recommending cannabis to your patients, you should definitely take his advice to heart. He works with a lot of the top cannabis clinicians including our dear friend Dr. Bonni Goldstein.



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Additional Resources



SB-305 Compassionate Access to Medical Cannabis Act or Ryan’s LawH.R.3617 - MORE Act of 2021Coffee Talk 11 with Michael Levinsohn