Cannabis and Psychedelics Law Group LLP

About Cannabis and Psychedelics Law Group LLP

Cannabis and Psychedelics Law Group LLP is a Toronto law firm on Danforth Avenue that focuses on Canada's cannabis and psychedelics sector. It began as a collaboration between Paul Lewin and Jack Lloyd, two lawyers who had already built practices around federal controlled substances law, and grew to include corporate counsel Daniel Perlin, litigator Jasdeep Bal, and business consultant Michael Starogiannis. The team combines legal, financial, and operational backgrounds so a cannabis or psychedelics business can get licensing, corporate structuring, and site planning advice in one place instead of piecing it together from separate advisors.

The firm's work spans federal producer licensing, provincial cannabis retail and operator licensing in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, and municipal zoning approvals for cultivation, processing, and retail sites. It also advises on psilocybin exemption applications as the psychedelics sector develops. Paul Lewin has litigated cannabis and drug cases at all levels of court, including a challenge to cannabis grower privacy rules at the Ontario Court of Appeal, and Jack Lloyd is president of NORML Canada, the national organization that advocates for cannabis law reform.