Spring 2024
Professor(s):
Matthew ( Matt) Zorn (ADJUNCT)
Credits: 2
Course Areas: Business and Commercial Law
Time: 5:30p-7:30p W Location: 211
Course Outline: This course will provide an overview of the law relevant to the emerging cannabis and psychedelic industries. Topics for discussion will include constitutional law, criminal law, administrative law, and agriculture laws. We’ll cover developments in cannabis and psychedelic legalization at both the state and federal levels, including Texas. Every week will discuss a new topic.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule: 5/1/2024 5-7 211
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper: YES
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
The textbook for this course is Marijuana Law and Policy by Douglas A. Berman and Alex Kreit
(2020). Other case reading will include publicly available materials that I provide or are readily
available, for example, cases.
