Establishing the regulatory and oversight program, Helping create a plant breeding program, Providing compliance and legal advisory support
Expertise Summary
Emerie successfully renewed all 5 legacy sites for a cannabis company during the Spring 2021 renewal window.
This included the renewal of the cultivation site and 4 legacy dispensaries.
Emerie also helped establish a plant breeding program at the cannabis company’s cultivation site.
She worked with cultivation employees and the state regulators to designate a new room at the cultivation site for cloning and plant breeding, which helped expand strain offerings in the market.
Emerie provided compliance and legal advisory support for the successful launch of the company’s house brand edibles.
She also applied for and obtained a provisional adult-use product manufacturing license.
Emerie successfully renewed all current licenses in the premier cannabis market in 2021 and 2022, including the cultivation site and 2 co-located medical and adult-use dispensaries.
She drafted the social equity narratives for the successful renewal of 3 of the company’s legacy dispensary locations in a specific state.
She also submitted a successful change of control application for the addition of 2 new board members.
Emerie helped draft a successful change of control application and provided compliance and legal advisory support for social equity initiatives in all states.
At another company, Emerie helped establish the regulatory readiness and oversight program – a regulatory compliance function where she monitored relevant state and federal law changes and enforcement actions that could potentially impact the business.
She created a COVID-19 weekly regulatory update for the business that kept everyone appraised of the rapid law changes during the COVID-19 crisis.
