The Intersection of Spirits and Marijuana

Marc Sorini and Vanessa Burrows wrote this bylined article on the legal issues facing craft brewers seeking to combine their brewing business with one or more aspects of the emerging marijuana business. “Marijuana currently operates in a very uncertain place in the US legal system” because of state legalization and continued federal restrictions, the authors wrote, so there is “not yet a clear, risk-free path for distillers to integrate the cannabis business … into their distilling operation.”