Staying On Point with Marijuana Law: Three Takeaways

By Meredith Mandell, Special to Big Law Business

There was a time when smoking marijuana was a sure-fire way to derail your career.

Take Ronald Reagan’s 1987 U.S. Supreme Court nominee Douglas Ginsburg, who asked to withdraw after it was discovered he had smoked marijuana several times while at Harvard.

Today, lawyers are all over marijuana as dozens of states legalize it for medicinal or recreational purposes. The real sign that marijuana is gaining acceptance may be the attention it received at this year’s annual ABA convention, in a panel discussion moderated by Eileen Smith Ewing, the chair-elect of the ABA’s Science and Technology Law ...