Erin Joanne Smith

Erin Joanne Smith is a cannabis and marijuana law attorney based in Alexandria, Virginia. Smith has 14 years in practice. Smith additionally takes on impaired-driving cases, which are contested in legal states because per se THC limits do not track actual impairment, traffic and vehicle offenses that often accompany a roadside cannabis stop and the criminal side of a legal market, meaning unlicensed sales, over-limit possession and diversion cases.

Because Virginia has a regulated adult-use market as well as a medical program, cannabis practice there covers license applications and transfers, compliance audits and municipal approvals, as well as the charges that continue to attach to unlicensed sale and cultivation. The Virginia Cannabis Control Authority administers the state program. 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.