Matt Buck

Based in Denver, Matt Buck handles cannabis and marijuana law matters in Colorado. With 13 years since admission, Buck is a graduate of The John Marshall Law School. Buck additionally takes on appeals, both from criminal convictions and from adverse regulatory rulings, entity formation, ownership structures and investor agreements for licensed operators and cannabis charges that remain prosecutable even in a legal state, such as sales without a license and cultivation over the plant limit.

Colorado runs a licensed adult-use market alongside its medical program, and the practical legal issues are licensing, ownership, advertising limits and the enforcement that follows any lapse in compliance. Regulation runs through the Marijuana Enforcement Division. It is the first state to open a regulated adult-use market, with a mature and heavily audited compliance regime.