Lisa Dwyer

Lisa Dwyer is a cannabis and marijuana law attorney based in Royal Oak, Michigan. Dwyer earned a law degree from University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and has 31 years in practice. Dwyer additionally takes on charges that survive legalization, including possession above the personal limit, unlicensed sale and cultivation beyond the permitted plant count, fraud and financial crime allegations, including those arising from cash-heavy cannabis operations and appeals, both from criminal convictions and from adverse regulatory rulings.

Cannabis is lawful for adults in Michigan and commercially regulated, which means the legal questions tend to be regulatory ones: who may hold a license, what a licensed premises may do, and how state rules interact with local authority. Regulation runs through the Cannabis Regulatory Agency. Michigan is a market where municipalities opt in individually, so local authorization is often the harder half of a licensing matter.