Ray Ashburg

Ray Ashburg is a North Carolina attorney whose practice includes cannabis and marijuana law, based in Charlotte. Ashburg has been licensed for 21 years and holds a law degree from University of Houston Law Center and Wake Forest University School of Law. Ashburg additionally takes on intellectual property, including brand and plant-variety questions that federal illegality complicates, patent matters covering extraction processes and plant varieties and the corporate side of cannabis, including formation, ownership changes and commercial contracts.

North Carolina has neither an adult-use nor a medical cannabis program, which means cannabis matters there are criminal matters, and the practical questions are about the stop, the search, the charge and its knock-on effects on employment and licensing.