Leonard Frieling

Leonard Frieling practices cannabis and marijuana law from Lafayette, Colorado. Frieling was admitted to the bar 48 years ago. Frieling also works on cannabis charges that remain prosecutable even in a legal state, such as sales without a license and cultivation over the plant limit, DUI matters turning on drug-recognition evidence and the limits of THC testing and juvenile defense, including the collateral school consequences of a drug charge.

Adult use is legal in Colorado and the commercial market is licensed, so questions tend to be about who qualifies for a license, what obligations attach to it, and where local rules override the state framework. Regulation runs through the Marijuana Enforcement Division. Colorado is the first state to open a regulated adult-use market, with a mature and heavily audited compliance regime.