Craft Beer and Marijuana - McDermott Will & Emery

Craft Beer and Marijuana

Overview


Marc Sorini and Vanessa Burrows wrote this bylined article on the legal issues facing craft brewers seeking to combine their brewing business with one or more aspects of the emerging marijuana business. “Marijuana currently operates in a very uncertain place in the US legal system” because of state legalization and continued federal restrictions, the authors wrote, so “brewers seeking to enter the marijuana business as investors or more face a host of questions and risks.”