How Trademark Lawyers Are Helping Cannabis Companies Protect Themselves

We talked to the THC Legal Group about the intellectual property issues cannabis entrepreneurs face, largely as a result of marijuana being illegal federally.

Marijuana’s road to legality has been a rocky one. While medicinal and recreational use explodes from state to state, weed’s still federally illegal, hurling business owners into the thralls of legal purgatory.

A little-known repercussion of this mess comes in the difficulty marijuana companies experience in obtaining trademarks. As big business threatens the small entrepreneurs who’ve comprised the industry for decades, protecting their brands has become more important than ever.

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