Edward Ungvarsky

Edward Ungvarsky practices cannabis and marijuana law from Alexandria, Virginia. Ungvarsky earned a law degree from Yale Law School and has 31 years in practice. Ungvarsky additionally takes on appeals, both from criminal convictions and from adverse regulatory rulings, the criminal side of a legal market, meaning unlicensed sales, over-limit possession and diversion cases and DUI matters turning on drug-recognition evidence and the limits of THC testing.

In Virginia, adults may lawfully possess cannabis and licensed businesses may sell it, which moves most of the legal work out of the courtroom and into licensing, land use and compliance, without removing criminal risk entirely. Regulation runs through the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. It is a state where adult possession and home cultivation are already lawful and a licensed retail market has been authorized but has not yet opened.