Evan E. Zelig

Based in Santa Rosa, Evan E. Zelig handles cannabis and marijuana law matters in California. With 21 years since admission, Zelig is a graduate of University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. Zelig additionally takes on the criminal side of a legal market, meaning unlicensed sales, over-limit possession and diversion cases and cannabis DUI defense, where blood THC levels are a poor proxy for impairment at the time of driving.

In California, 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. The Department of Cannabis Control administers the state program. California is the largest regulated market in the country, where state licenses sit on top of a separate local approval in every city and county.

Zelig also takes domestic violence matters.