Hawaii lawyers must not provide legal services to clients seeking a license to run the state’s first medical marijuana businesses, according to a new formal opinion released by the Disciplinary Board of the Hawaii Supreme Court.
The board’s opinion rules that lawyers may provide legal advice about Act 241, which established Hawaii’s first statewide medical marijuana retail dispensary system.
However, lawyers may not provide legal services to aid in the creation of such businesses because that would prompt illegal activity on a federal scale, the board said.
A lawyer may not provide services to “facilitate the establishment and operation of a medical marijuana business ‘when such acts are expressly authorized under Act 241, but remain a crime under federal law, albeit with a low enforcement priority,’” according to the opinion.
The 18-member appointed board is a watchdog for the public to prevent professional misconduct in the legal sector. [Read more at Pacific Business News]
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