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Nov. 12, 2016

Blunt talk about trademarks in the marijuana business

It's not just people eager to light up who are celebrating — there are those who wish to cash in on this emerging industry. By Victoria L. Burke

Victoria Burke

Scott + Scott Attorneys at Law, LLP

Email: vburke@scott-scott.com

Victoria is an adjunct professor of Fashion Law at Southwestern Law School.

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By Victoria L. Burke

A new day dawns in California with the passage of Proposition 64, which legalized the recreational use of marijuana. The people basically told the government, to paraphrase the Rolling Stones, "to get off of my cloud." And the cannabis industry is set to explode now that the limitations of usage to only medicinal purposes have been removed.

But it's not just people eager to light up who are celebrating - there are those ...

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