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FEATURED PANELISTS 

Matthew Lee

General Counsel for California's Department of Cannabis Control

Matthew Lee is the general counsel of the California Department of Cannabis Control, which he joined upon its creation in July 2021. Prior to joining the Department, he served as a deputy legal affairs secretary in the Office of Governor Gavin Newsom and a deputy city attorney for the City and County of San Francisco. Matt clerked for the Hon. Vince Chhabria of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, as well as the Hon. Michelle Friedland and the Hon. Harry Pregerson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Marc Hause

President of Hauser Advisory

 As President of Hauser Advisory, a cannabis industry-focused advisory firm, Marc leverages his decades of experience to consult on business lifecycle events and industry engagement. Prior to consulting, Marc practiced law for nearly 25 years, most recently as Chair of the Cannabis Practice Team at Reed Smith LLP, a global law firm, and was named by peer-ranked Chambers USA and Legal 500 as a Leading Lawyer who “knows the [cannabis] industry and players through and through.” He is a frequent speaker, the author of Cannabis Musings, an occasional missive on things happening in the industry, and an Associate Professor at Northwestern University School of Law. 

Rafi Aliya Crockett

Treasurer of the Cannabis Regulators of Color Coalition

Treasurer of the Cannabis Regulators of Color Coalition, a coalition of government officials focused on equity-centered regulation, industry best practices, and cannabis competency and standardization. In 2019, Ms.Crockett was appointed to Washington, D.C.’s Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Board. As a board member, Ms.Crockett works with legislators and government agencies to drive change focused on eliminating disparities in access, ownership and participation in the city's alcoholic beverage and cannabis industries. In 2022, Ms. Crockett co-authored “Not a SAFE Bet: Equitable Access to Cannabis Banking.” Ms. Crockett is writer and executive producer of the documentary film, Higher Power, about cannabis legalization, racial justice and statehood in Washington, D.C. 

Adam J. Smith

Founder and President, Alliance for Sensible Market

Adam is the founder of the Alliance for Sensible Markets. He is also the founder of the Craft Cannabis Alliance, a trade group dedicated to defining and expanding markets for Oregon’s locally owned, values- driven cannabis businesses. In 2019, Adam and his members passed the country’s first law preparing a state (OR) for interstate commerce. When Congress banned financial aid to students with drug convictions in 1998, Adam organized campuses across the country in the first-ever successful effort to roll back federal drug war legislation in the US. The Higher Education Act reform campaign and Adam’s leadership were instrumental to the launch of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, now a drug policy reform powerhouse and leadership incubator with active chapters in over 40 US states and more than 30 countries. In 2005 he launched the Vote by Mail project, expanding mail-in ballot access in several states and winning full vote-by-mail elections in Colorado in just four years. As a founding board member of the Oregon Bus Project and the League of Young Voters Education Fund, he helped activate networks of young organizers to get out the vote in communities across the country. Adam lives in Portland, Oregon, where he recently served on the city’s Cannabis Social Equity Grant selection committee. His writing on drug policy has appeared in dozens of print and online publications, and he can be heard weekly as a regular on the podcast Marijuana Tomorrow.