Interstate Commerce in Statehouses and the Courts: What Will Ultimately Bring About the Onset of Interstate Sales?

Rafi Aliya Crockett, CAMS Related Seminars and Products

Treasurer

Cannabis Regulators of Color Coalition

Rafi Aliya Crockett is happy to rejoin “civilian life” after serving on Washington, D.C.’s Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Board from 2019 to 2023. As a board member, Ms. Crockett worked to drive change focused on eliminating disparities in access, ownership and participation in the city's alcoholic beverage and cannabis industries. Ms. Crockett serves as Treasurer to the Cannabis Regulators of Color Coalition, and is the writer and executive producer of Higher Power, a documentary film about cannabis legalization in Washington, D.C. told through the lens of racial justice and the fight for statehood. 

Caroline J. Lambert, Esq. Related Seminars and Products

Associate Attorney

Sullivan & Worcester LLP

Caroline focuses her work on regulatory compliance, white-collar and government investigations, and securities enforcement and counseling. Caroline has experience representing broker-dealers and other financial institutions, public and private companies, and individuals in investigations and proceedings before administrative, legislative, and self-regulatory agencies including the SEC and FINRA. Caroline also helps develop and update effective compliance and supervisory policies and procedures and has experience in drafting effective Regulation SHO, Conflicts of Interest, and Customer Due Diligence policies, among other compliance procedures. Caroline further works with CFIUS, the Corporate Transparency Act and anti-money laundering regulations, export-import controls and anti-boycott and anti-corruption regulations, and has experience assisting US companies navigating USTDA submissions, export controls, sanctions, and other regulatory controls.

On the transactional side, Caroline works with our capital markets group representing issuers and broker-dealers in financings, capital markets transactions, initial public offerings, private placements, PIPEs, and investment fund matters, and advises clients on corporate governance and compliance with ongoing disclosure and other obligations under the federal securities laws.

Caroline is also an Adjunct Professor at Stonehill College teaching POL201, Mock Trial.

Caroline graduated from Boston University School of Law, cum laude, and with a concentration in International Law, with honors. During law school, Caroline was the Managing Editor of the Boston University International Law Journal, interned for the Honorable Juan R. Torruella, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and was a two-time member of the Judge John R. Brown Admiralty Moot Court Competition team.

Matt Lee Related Seminars and Products

General Counsel

California Department of Cannabis Control

Lee served as Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary for the Office of Governor Gavin Newsom from 2019 to 2021. He was Deputy City Attorney in the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office from 2016 to 2019. Lee served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Vince Chhabria at the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California from 2015 to 2016, Law Clerk for the Honorable Michelle T. Friedland at the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit from 2014 to 2015 and Law Clerk for the Honorable Harry Pregerson at the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit from 2013 to 2014. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School and a Master of Philosophy degree in modern Middle Eastern studies from the University of Oxford.

Adam Smith Related Seminars and Products

Founder and President

Alliance for Sensible Markets

In a career spanning more than two decades, Adam has been sole or collaborative founder of a series of successful non-profits and public policy campaigns, has served on the boards of directors for statewide and national civic engagement organizations, led teams of nurses in collective bargaining negotiations across Oregon, lobbied members of Congress and state legislatures, advised non-profit and for- profit clients on a range of issues, and was a founding partner in a company bringing Pacific Northwest craft beer and artisan wine to Hawaii. In 1996, Adam launched the nation’s first online newsmagazine and syndicated radio news show focused entirely on domestic and international drug policy reform. In 1998, he conceptualized and launched the Higher Education Act Reform Campaign, which won back the right to federal financial aid for students with drug convictions. As part of the HEA campaign, he shepherded the founding of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, the world’s largest student-led drug policy reform organization, now active in more than forty states and 25 countries, and recognized as an NGO at the United Nations. In 2002, Adam joined the founding board of directors of the Oregon Bus Project, and in 2004, helped launch the League of Young Voters, a national civic engagement organization working with young people of color. In 2006, Adam launched the Vote By Mail Project, which successfully expanded access to mail-in voting in multiple states, most notably moving Colorado to full vote by mail elections. Adam received his B.A. in Urban Studies from the City University of New York, and his J.D. from the Boston University School of Law. He lives in Portland, Oregon. Adam’s writing on drug policy and civic engagement has appeared in more than 40 print and online publications, including REASON Magazine, The Guardian UK, Mother Jones Online, Alternet, and The Razorwire. He has also produced chapters for the books Busted; Stone Cowboys, Narco Lords, and America’s War on Drugs, (Mike Gray, Ed.), Drug Trafficking (Auriana Ojeda, Ed.) and How To Get Stupid White Men Out of Office (Billy Wimsatt and Adrienne Maree Brown, Eds.).