RegTalk

By Susan Ameel, co-founder and partner of Global Regulatory Risk Advisors. Entrepreneurs start businesses to make money. At some point, the entrepreneur may want to sell or go public, for a variety of reasons. A company that has an inadequate risk and compliance program may find it difficult to do...

By Susan Ameel, co-founder and partner of Global Regulatory Risk Advisors. The Mayor of DC, Muriel Bowser, revealed the city’s legislation to legalize and tax the sale of recreational cannabis. DC’s legislative act is designed in a way that only small businesses will be able to comply...

By Susan Ameel, co-founder and partner of Global Regulatory Risk Advisors. Governor J.B. Pritzker announced the Illinois has reached a deal that will legalize marijuana sales by January 1, 2020.  We expect the Illinois Legislature to move quickly and pass the legislation by June. Illinois will...

By Susan Ameel, co-founder and partner of Global Regulatory Risk Advisors. The Washington state legislature presented Governor Inslee with a bill that would allow marijuana licensees to provide consumers with more information on a product label. The new law would allow licensees to...

By Susan Ameel, co-founder and partner of Global Regulatory Risk Advisors. The California state senate will hold a third reading of a bill intended to make cannabis party buses safer for passengers and the public. The bill, SB-625, is intended to support California’s burgeoning...

By Susan Ameel, co-founder and partner of Global Regulatory Risk Advisors. Maine published draft recreational marijuana regulations more than two years after residents voted to legalize marijuana and amid contracting chaos. In September 2018, Maine hired a consultant to help draft the regulations,...