Clifton Black

Clifton Black is a Colorado attorney whose practice includes cannabis and marijuana law, based in Colorado Springs. Black earned a law degree from University of Missouri - Kansas City and has 24 years in practice. Alongside cannabis matters, Black handles the criminal side of a legal market, meaning unlicensed sales, over-limit possession and diversion cases, impaired-driving cases, which are contested in legal states because per se THC limits do not track actual impairment and entity formation, ownership structures and investor agreements for licensed operators.

Colorado regulates both adult-use and medical cannabis, so legal work in the state runs from licensing and local approvals through packaging, advertising and seed-to-sale tracking rules, alongside the criminal matters that still arise around unlicensed activity and possession above the legal limit. Regulation runs through the Marijuana Enforcement Division. Colorado stands out as the first state to open a regulated adult-use market, with a mature and heavily audited compliance regime.