CougarDAO LLC Members will be Educating Cannabis Lawyers July 13, 2023
Using Blockchain to Build a Decentralized, Self-Regulating, and Equitable Cannabis Economy 2023
This week, LexDAO and CougarDAO LLC members head to San Francisco, CA, to educate cannabis lawyers on the Blockchain and how it might be used to help distribute reparations benefits to those who suffered damages, as victims, in the War on Drugs.
Myself and fellow LexDAO members Khurshid Khoja and James McCall (also of CougarDAO LLC) will be heading to the bay on July 13th, to put on panels at the Practising Law Institute (PLI).
What are you guys going to teach?
Here is a bit of what we are planning to teach. Though, I suspect we’ll find out technical competence levels rather early in the program.
“After completing this program, participants will be able to:
Understand the continued conflict between state cannabis laws and the federal Controlled Substances Act
Learn how federal anti-money laundering (AML) laws restrict banking access for state-licensed cannabis businesses, the means through which they mandate financial surveillance of the cannabis businesses and consumers and attempt to prevent cannabis commerce, and legislative efforts to reform federal law
Identify legislative efforts to address the legacy of racially-biased enforcement of cannabis prohibition through social equity
Gain a non-technical understanding of what a blockchain is, and the essential features of blockchain technology—permissionless networks, decentralization, transparency, immutability, and pseudonymity
Understand how cryptocurrency has been used in the past to evade financial surveillance and censorship of cannabis commerce and other illicit transactions, and why it offers an alternative to traditional financial services regulated by federal banking authorities
Obtain a basic understanding of certain blockchain-based technological innovations—including digital wallets, cryptocurrency, NFTs, smart contracts, oracles, DAOs—and what they make possible.”
Lawyers: Do you need CLE Credits?
If so, here’s the link to purchase your ticket to the event. It has both remote and in-person options:
One Last Thing:
There’s some exciting things happening over at buildcities.network.
Members of BuildCities are also owners in CougarDAO LLC. Tomorrow they are launching on Ethereum Mainnet.
Here’s a video about their networked cities thesis:
Catch them on Twitter: @buildcities.