Khurshid Khoja

Greenbridge is a business and regulatory law firm working to advance the cannabis, psychedelics and blockchain industries. These tweets are not legal advice.

[Nick Rishwain @NickJRishwain]

📢Join us for this CLE next week!

@GreenbridgeLaw and I, both members of @lex_DAO are remixing the presentation from last year for @PractLawInst.

The tongue in cheek title involves matters of property rights, justice reform, #justicetech, criminal justice, #legaltech and more.

Register here: https://t.co/Wa8YOtxm2w

[Nick Rishwain, JD @expertsdotcomvp]

Happy to have @GreenbridgeLaw marketing his expert witness services on https://t.co/OczZj7sF1m.

[Khurshid Khoja @GreenbridgeLaw]

Schedule III is better than Schedule I, but the DEA needs to DESCHEDULE to stop criminalizing cannabis consumers and state-licensed businesses that are playing by the rules. Learn more and submit your comments to the DEA today via UMD’s link. https://t.co/T1RAgRuy52

[Khurshid Khoja @GreenbridgeLaw]

@NickJRishwain @PractLawInst Thanks for letting me drag you along for the ride again @NickJRishwain—looking forward to your insights on RWA from @CougarDAO’s latest exploits. Really appreciate your continued support for this session, and the long leash from @PractLawInst. I promise it will be a good time!

[Tom Angell 🌳📰ⓥ @tomangell]

.@ReasonFdn's @GLawNV and @GreenbridgeLaw's Khurshid Khoja authored a Marijuana Moment op-ed arguing that social equity programs should be redesigned to benefit people who have been directly harmed by cannabis criminalization.

https://t.co/DJaqURm9dw

[Mike Liszewski 🌸DC Statehood now🌸 @MikeLiszewski]

Typically, Congressional Research Service reports have lots of legal citations and footnotes, none of which are found in this report, which makes some rather aspirational claims around the legal status of state medical marijuana programs if the feds reschedule to Reschedule III.

[Tom Angell 🌳📰ⓥ @tomangell]

BREAKING: California lawmakers sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill to legalize possession and cultivation of certain psychedelics.

Newsom has long criticized the war on drugs, but last year he vetoed a bill to allow safe consumption sites…

https://t.co/Qb3G77MV2V

[Khurshid Khoja @GreenbridgeLaw]

@mccallios Yes please!

[Khurshid Khoja @GreenbridgeLaw]

@ChartGuys Appreciate the sober and measured talk on near term prospects for rescheduling and the impact on the equities markets for Canadian cannabis firms and US MSOs—reasonable and responsible fundamental analysis, along with excellent TA instruction.

[Khurshid Khoja @GreenbridgeLaw]

Reports of the death of cannabis prohibition are exaggerated … after over a dozen years in cannabis reform, all I know for sure is that there’s still a long road ahead of US cannabis businesses before they’re treated like every other legal business. https://t.co/8fxKr5Imol

[Khurshid Khoja @GreenbridgeLaw]

Mr. President, please also forgive any prison debt from accrued “pay-to-stay” jail fees, commissary fees, and other monetary sanctions on those pardoned, and provide restitution for any sanctions already paid by them and their families. Please urge all governors to do the same.

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Second: I’m calling on governors to pardon simple state marijuana possession offenses. Just as no one should be in a federal prison solely for possessing marijuana, no one should be in a local jail or state prison for that reason, either.

[Khurshid Khoja @GreenbridgeLaw]

@lizshubov @NickJRishwain @mccallios Thanks for the nudge, Liz!

[Khurshid Khoja @GreenbridgeLaw]

The President is right—making cannabis a Schedule I controlled substance is wrong. De-scheduling cannabis is the only rational response that permanently ends the War on Drugs for cannabis. Re-scheduling will only resurrect illicit markets and create another pharma monopoly.

[POLITICO @politico]

Biden is asking the HHS Secretary and Attorney General to review how marijuana is classified under federal law.

It's currently listed as a Schedule I narcotic — drugs deemed to have no medical use and high potential for abuse — alongside heroin and LSD. https://t.co/aGiRLMqT2F

[Khurshid Khoja @GreenbridgeLaw]

@politico While this is welcome news, and I pray the governors heed the President’s call to action, it’s important to remember that the number of folks in cages for simple possession is small compared to the numbers unjustly arrested and prosecuted on the pretext of “distribution”.

[POLITICO @politico]

President Biden is planning to issue an executive order pardoning people convicted of simple marijuana possession under federal law.

He'll also urge governors to do the same for state cases of civil possession of marijuana. https://t.co/aGiRLM8JOx

[Khurshid Khoja @GreenbridgeLaw]

@NickJRishwain @mccallios Waist high in transactional and regulatory work, but anxious to re-engage with my friends at @lex_DAO very soon with some novel written work (that you’ve both graciously reviewed an initial draft of).

[Khurshid Khoja @GreenbridgeLaw]

@mccallios True, but fast food is just one of the many ancillary industries that lawful cannabis commerce supports!

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

Cryptocurrencies offer legal cannabis businesses immediate alternatives to both an exclusionary banking system and operating all-cash businesses, @GreenbridgeLaw writes.

We need to adopt them now.

An opinion for #SinWeek:
https://t.co/u9BfXNEN06

[Khurshid Khoja @GreenbridgeLaw]

@lex_DAO @loaf0bred @LinkedIn It was meant to be the first piece of a series, and intended to initiate a much longer exploration into new use cases. It no doubt includes some errors that might make fellow @lex_DAO Guild members cringe—I appreciate the support that fellow Guild members provided nonetheless.

[Khurshid Khoja @GreenbridgeLaw]

@lex_DAO @loaf0bred @LinkedIn This is the more polished version. Currently working on a paper on using blockchain technology to facilitate restitution to victims of equal protection violations during the war on drugs.

[Khurshid Khoja @GreenbridgeLaw]

@lex_DAO @loaf0bred @"Can DAOs, oracles and smart contracts help achieve social equity in the cannabis industry?"https://t.co/KofVJV0ER9 on @LinkedIn