sprigglespraggle

This is a great question, and I'm very interested to hear OP's response. To put your question more specifically and in legal terms, what you're asking is how OP squares helping cannabis producers and retailers operate with Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.2(d) (or her state's equivalent), which states:

A lawyer shall not counsel a client to engage, or assist a client, in conduct that the lawyer knows is criminal or fraudulent, but a lawyer may discuss the legal consequences of any proposed course of conduct with a client and may counsel or assist a client to make a good faith effort to determine the validity, scope, meaning or application of the law.

knowing that possession, production, and sale of cannabis all remain illegal under federal law. On its face, it seems to me that the first clause of Rule 1.2(d) specifically forbids OP's practice, and I would think that the exception outlined in the latter part of the subsection does not apply, as OP has actual knowledge that these companies will be using her advice to pursue a business activity directly at odds with federal law.

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