• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Advertise
  • Business Directory
    • Buyers | Licensees
    • Sellers | Ancillary Businesses
    • Submit Product & Service Press Release
  • CBE Exchange
  • CBE Jobs Exchange
  • Events
  • Featured Videos
  • Product & Service Press Releases
  • Sponsored Polls
  • Webinars
    • Upcoming Webinars
    • Archived Webinars
  • Whitepapers

Cannabis Business Executive - Cannabis and Marijuana industry news

Recreational, Medical, Marijuana, Cannabis, And Hemp News for Cannabis Businesses

  • Follow on Facebook
  • Follow on Twitter
  • Follow on Google+
  • Follow on LinkedIn
  • Subscribe to our RSS feed
Newsletter 2
  • Home
  • Policy & Legal
    • Hemp Business Executive
    • International
      • Canada
      • Mexico
      • Israel
    • US A to F
      • Alabama
      • Alaska
      • Arizona
      • Arkansas
      • California
      • Colorado
      • Connecticut
      • Delaware
      • District of Columbia
      • Florida
    • US G to M
      • Georgia
      • Hawaii
      • Illinois
      • Indiana
      • Idaho
      • Iowa
      • Kansas
      • Kentucky
      • Louisiana
      • Maine
      • Maryland
      • Massachusetts
    • US M to N
      • Michigan
      • Minnesota
      • Mississippi
      • Missouri
      • Montana
      • Nebraska
      • Nevada
      • New Hampshire
      • New Jersey
      • New Mexico
      • New York
      • North Carolina
      • North Dakota
    • US O to V
      • Ohio
      • Oklahoma
      • Oregon
      • Pennsylvania
      • Rhode Island
      • South Carolina
      • South Dakota
      • Tennessee
      • Texas
      • Utah
      • Vermont
    • US V to W
      • Virginia
      • Washington
      • Wisconsin
      • Wyoming
      • Guam
      • Puerto Rico
  • Industry News
    • Advertising, Marketing, PR & Research
    • Banking, Finance & Real Estate
    • Compliance and Regulations
    • Corporate Social Responsibility
    • Retailers
    • Hemp Business Executive
    • HR and Staffing
    • North Of The Border
    • Industry People/On the Move
    • Packaging and Supplies
    • Press Releases
    • Processors
    • Producers
    • Security Solutions
    • Science and Technology
    • South Of The Border
  • CBE Lists
    • Ancillary Businesses
      • 2019 CBE Ancillary Business Survey CLICK HERE
      • 2018 CBE 155 A/B
      • 2017 CBE 150 A/B
      • 2016 CBE 100 A/B
    • Producers, Processors, Retailers
      • 2017 CBE 200 PPRs
      • 2015 CBE 100 PPRs
    • Industry Women
      • Glass Ceiling Wreckers: 2019 CBE Power Women of Cannabis
      • 2017 CBE 75 Most Important Women
      • 2016 CBE Top 50 Women
      • 2014 CBE Most Influential Women
    • Most Important Companies
      • 2016 CBE 10 Most Important Companies
      • 2014 CBE 10 Most Important Companies
    • Political 100
      • 2017 CBE Political 100
      • 2016 CBE 100 Political
      • 2014 CBE Political 50
    • 2014 CBE 100 Most Important People
    • CBE RFP Hotlists
      • 2014 CBE Lab Testing Services HotList
      • 2016 BHO Extraction Equipment
      • 2016 CBE Supercritical CO2 Extraction Equipment
      • 2016 CBE Security Solutions
      • 2016 Edibles & Infused Products
  • Company Stories
    • Up and Comers
  • Hemp Business Executive
    • Hemp Policy & Legal
    • Hemp Industry News
  • Newsletters
    • CBE Week
    • CBE Human Capital Management
    • CBE Technology & Solutions
    • CBE Policy and Legal Update
    • CBE Product and Service Announcements
  • Op-Ed
    • Cartoons
    • The Buck Stops Here
    • Opinions
    • Comments
  • Associations
  • State Regulatory Agencies
  • Contact
  • Last Chance to Submit for the 2019 CBE Ancillary Business List CLICK HERE
You are here: Home / Hemp Business Executive / New Federalism Fund and American Trade Association for Cannabis and Hemp Join Forces to Form New Industry Effort

New Federalism Fund and American Trade Association for Cannabis and Hemp Join Forces to Form New Industry Effort

April 20, 2018 by Rob Meagher Leave a Comment

CBE is excited to announce the partnership of the New Federalism Fund and The American Trade Association for Cannabis and Hemp (ATACH). The below press release lays out the mission of the newly formed group and is intended to push the ball over the line to provide the Cannabis Industry with the tools it needs to level the playing field in the competitive industry environment and to end prohibition once and for all.

PRESS RELEASE

This effort will build the institutional strength of both organizations with a focus on ending federal cannabis prohibition and unifying cannabis industry stakeholders  

DENVER, CO (04/20/18) – The New Federalism Fund (NFF) and the American Trade Association for Cannabis and Hemp (ATACH) have collectively agreed to join forces. A Memorandum of Understanding released today by both organizations outlines their decision to create a federation of organizations dedicated to pooling resources and working collaboratively with industry partners to grow a national trade association effort that represents all segments of the industry.

“We may have entered an historic moment where Congress and the President are poised to act to align our industry with our nation’s federalist ideals,” said Neal Levine, Chairman of the New Federalism Fund and Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for LivWell Enlightened Health. “It is no secret that the New Federalism Fund has been working collaboratively with Senator Gardner and his staff to address the federal issues facing our industry. In light of the deal that Senator Gardner made with the President, we simply must marshal considerable resources from throughout the industry to give our allies in Congress the support that they need to pass this historic legislation.”

“In roughly one year of existence, NFF has established itself as the cannabis industry’s leading federal lobbying group, speeding up the pace of critical federal legislation at an unprecedented level. We are on the precipice of federal legislation that addresses all of our industries federal issues, and there is simply no way that the announcement Senator Gardner made last week happens without NFF’s work this past year,” said Michael Bronstein, ATACH Co-Founder, and Lead Consultant. “Our groups have worked in seamless coalition since NFF was formed in March of 2017. Every segment of our industry will benefit by NFF and ATACH formally working together and we are excited to see what we can achieve.”

“ATACH has built a reputation as a business-focused national cannabis trade association. Their work with ASTM International to develop comprehensive standards for the cannabis industry is potentially groundbreaking, and their focus on unifying key stakeholders and working to professionalize the industry fits very well with NFF’s culture,” said Levine. “There are many companies out there that feel underserved by our existing national trade association options. We are excited to work with ATACH to be able to offer businesses a home, in the near future, which is business-focused and action-oriented. Putting these two organizations efforts together checks a lot of boxes.”

Shared objectives of the federation will include maintaining the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment in addition to expanding the protections of that amendment to adult-use markets; maintaining and clarifying existing FinCEN guidance; preventing state legal and compliant cannabis businesses from an unfair tax burden under section 280E of the tax code; allowing state legal and compliant cannabis businesses access to full commercial banking services; and removing cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act, deferring to the states on cannabis laws and regulations, with some reasonable federal oversight.

About New Federalism Fund
The New Federalism Fund is a non-partisan 501(c)(4). Its board members and contributors are those interested in state-first regulation of state-based commerce and creating a common sense regulatory system for those who are in or serve the state-based cannabis industry.

About ATACH: 
The American Trade Association for Cannabis and Hemp is a 501(c)(6) trade organization registered in Washington, D.C. promoting the expansion and protection of legal sales of marijuana for industrial, medical, and recreational use. In 2016, ATACH was named “Corporate Grassroots Organization of the Year” by Campaigns & Elections magazine for its representation of industry leaders. ATACH has the main goal of promoting the cannabis industry from its niche to mainstream business and professionalizing national representation of the cannabis industry space.

CONTACT:

Sara Croom

202.550.9158

[email protected]

 

Contextual Link – Nexus November

Contextual Link – Cova November

Filed Under: Hemp Business Executive, Hemp Industry News, Policy & Legal Tagged With: 280E, ASTM International, ATACH, Controlled Substances Act, FinCEN Guidance, Michael Bronstein, Neal Levine, New Federalism Fund, Rohrabacher-Blumenauer

About The Author:

Rob Meagher

Rob Meagher, CBE’s Founder, President and Editor-in-Chief is a 30 year veteran of the media world. His career has spanned from stints representing the Washington Post, USA Weekend, Reader’s Digest, Financial World & Corporate Finance to the technology world where he worked at International Data Group and Ziff Davis where he was part of the launch team for The Web Magazine, Yahoo Internet Life, Smart Business and Expedia Travels before starting his own marketing and Publisher’s Representative Firm. He also ran all print and online media sales and marketing for the Society for Human Resource Management before partnering with Forbes and then Fortune to create Special Sections covering a variety of topics. Rob, who started CBE Press in 2014, can be contacted at [email protected]

Primary Sidebar

Ad: Sidebar 1

Featured Video

Associations & Organizations

clearing div

Ad: Sidebar 2

Business Directory

Ad: Skyscraper 1

CBE Jobs Exchange


Featured Jobs
Go
Post a Job
More jobs
Powered by CBEJobsExchange.com

RSS Recent Jobs

  • Senior Bioinformatics Scientist - Medicinal Genomics Corp. - Beverly,
  • R&D Scientist - Medicinal Genomics - Beverly,
  • Corporate Associate - Fox Rothschild LLP - New York, NY

Product & Service Press Releases

Ad: Sidebar 3

CBE Events

Ad: Sidebar 4

State Regulatory Agencies

Ad: Skyscraper 2

Webinars

Ad: Sidebar 5

Associations & Organizations

Ad: Sidebar 6

Featured Video

Ad: Skyscraper 3

Business Directory

Ad: Sidebar 7

CBE Jobs Exchange

Ad: Sidebar 8

CBE Events

Ad: Skyscraper 4

Industry Blogs



Footer

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • CBE Press LLC Privacy Statement
  • Contribute
  • Contributors
  • Newsletters
  • Terms of Service
  • Contributor Login
  • Follow on Facebook
  • Follow on Twitter
  • Follow on Google+
  • Follow on LinkedIn
  • Subscribe to our RSS feed
Newsletter 2

© Copyright 2018 CBE PRESS LLC. - All Rights Reserved. Cannabis Business Executive Is A Trademark Of CBE PRESS LLC. · All Rights Reserved · And Our Sitemap · All Logos & Trademarks Belong To Their Respective Owners·