Benjamin P. Reider

Benjamin P. Reider is a Michigan attorney whose practice includes cannabis and marijuana law, based in Muskegon. Reider has been licensed for 8 years and holds a law degree from Marquette University Law School. Reider also works on entity formation, ownership structures and investor agreements for licensed operators, property acquisition, leasing and zoning for cultivation and retail sites and brand protection, which is complicated by the refusal of federal trademark registration for goods that remain federally controlled.

Cannabis is lawful for adults in Michigan and commercially regulated, which means the legal questions tend to be regulatory ones: who may hold a license, what a licensed premises may do, and how state rules interact with local authority. Regulation runs through the Cannabis Regulatory Agency. It is a market where municipalities opt in individually, so local authorization is often the harder half of a licensing matter.