Firm: Dan Viets Law
Practice Areas: Cannabis Law
Dan Viets is an attorney in private practice in Columbia, MO, concentrating on the defense of marijuana cases. He has served for many years as the Missouri State Coordinator for NORML. He is a former president of the Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, former chair of the board of the Mid-Missouri ACLU, former president of the University of Missouri student body and former chair of the City of Columbia Human Rights Commission.. Dan was the recipient of the 1993 Martin Luther King Association's "Keeping the Dream Alive" award and the 1995 Mid-Missouri "Civil Libertarian of the Year." Dan was named High Times Freedom Fighter of the Month in March, 2005 for his work helping to pass both a marijuana decriminalization initiative and a medical marijuana initiative in the November, 2004 election in Columbia.. He received the 2005 Atticus Finch Outstanding Criminal Defense Lawyer award from the Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. In January, 2006 he received the Trailblazer award from the Mid-Missouri NAACP.. He received the "Audiencey Award" from Conan O'Brien on the Tonight Show for looking most like the college professor who could always get you weed. Dan hosts a weekly radio program, called "Sex, Drugs and Civil Liberties", on a community station affiliated with National Public Radio.. Dan co-authored Missouri's medical marijuana law and Chaired the Board of the 2018 campaign which passed that law, now Article XIV, Section 1 of Missouri's Constitution. He co-authored Missouri's law legalizing adult use, cultivation and sales of marijuana and Chaired the Advisory Board of the 2022 campaign which passed that law, now Article XIV, Section 2 of Missouri's Constitution.. Dan is President of the national NORML Foundation, Secretary of the national NORML Board, and a Lifetime member of the NORML Legal Committee.
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Firm: Armstrong Teasdale LLP
Practice Areas: Cannabis Law
Eric's practice primarily involves representing businesses and individuals in the legalized marijuana industry. He has successfully represented companies across the country applying for facility licenses to cultivate, manufacture, and dispense marijuana and marijuana-infused products. Eric assists clients with every facet of procuring and compliantly operating marijuana facility licenses, along with mergers and acquisitions, other corporate matters, legislative and regulatory issues, and related matters. Eric also represents MoCannTrade, Missouri's marijuana industry trade association.. Eric has extensive state and federal litigation experience in a wide-range of complex commercial and business cases that include: a religious conference center prevailing in a long-running corporate governance and property dispute; a major men’s retail chain defeating false advertising claims by different state-wide classes of customers; and a publicly-traded company defeating breach of fiduciary duty claims by a national class of former stockholders.. Eric serves privately owned businesses, publicly traded companies and nonprofit corporations. A significant portion of this work involves the defending class action lawsuits brought against various business entities. Many of the cases involve allegations of fraud, false advertising, unfair trade practices and breaches of state and federal consumer protection laws.. Eric also represents clients in matters alleging breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and copyright infringement. He also provides counsel in workplace cases involving claims such as discrimination and violation of non-compete and nonsolicitation provisions.
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