Joan Lebow, Carl Rowley, and Fred Roth of Thompson Coburn's cannabis practice attended Marijuana Business Media’s 2015 Marijuana Business Conference at the Rio Hotel, Las Vegas,  where more than 5,500 attendees attended daylong sessions on the industry and were able to meet with more than 230 exhibitors. 

As a group, they were impressed by the quality of the attendees and their seriousness regarding the industry, its ongoing success and dedication to delivering high-quality product for patients and customers.

After attending the event last week, the team came away with several major takeaways:

Industry participants disagree on how to regulate cannabis

When discussing possible federal regulation of the cannabis industry, few panelists, exhibitors and other industry members could agree on what form that regulation should take. Often, those espousing a particular scheme, or advocating for the lack thereof, had quite spirited discussions about the right track for the industry. The one thing they all agreed upon, however,...