A joint venture in a budding industry
We are excited to announce that the Faculty of Law now has Canada’s first cannabis-law-related club, the Cannabis Law Club (CLC)!
The Idea for CLC
During Clubs Fair, we were surprised to see that there was no cannabis law club. Medical marijuana had been legal for years, there was a substantial amount of M&A activity in the industry and the legalization of recreational marijuana was imminent. After attending a Dean’s Leadership Lunch with Paul Rosen (‘88), co-founder of PharmaCan Capital Corporation and Tidal Royalty Corporation, and a Lawyers Doing Cool Things event with Matthew Mundy (‘12), General Counsel of Canopy Rivers, we were inspired to educate others about the industry and how they can get involved.
We are proud to announce our Intro to Cannabis Law panel on March 7, focusing on this unique new practice area and the paths within it. We have an all-star lineup for our panel, featuring speakers from Aphria Inc., Canopy Growth Corporation, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, and Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP.
Although the club is less than a month old, we have big plans. We plan on publishing a per-issue column on Ultra Vires sharing news and updates in cannabis law. Because cannabis touches on so many different areas of law, we also plan on holding events related to fields outside of business law, including employment and labour, health and criminal.
We also want to make it clear that CLC is a club solely focused on the legal and business aspects of the industry. We are not hosting events where we smoke in a circle while jamming out to Cypress Hill’s “Everybody Must Get Stoned” in the background.
So once again, please attend our panel on March 7—if anything, come for the chow mein, fried rice and sweet and sour chicken we’ll be serving. Please RSVP on Facebook as our funding for food depends on it!
*Ben Barrett, Ernest Tam, Ben Persofsky, and Zach Lechner-Sung are Co-Founders of the U of T Law Cannabis Law Club.
