Thursday // May 6th // 10:30 am
Session: Psychedelics: Removing Barriers to Access through Legalization & Litigation
Hadas Alterman
Founding Partner
Plant Medicine Law Group
Hadas is an Israeli-American attorney, born in Jerusalem and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has a J.D. from Berkeley Law and a B.A. in Community Studies/Agriculture & Social Justice from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Hadas advises companies on matters of regulatory compliance, policy advocacy, risk management, strategic planning, revenue models, corporate governance, and dispute resolution. Prior to founding PMLG, she worked with Wykowski Law & Associates, a leading cannabis law firm in San Francisco.
Hadas has assisted clients with cannabis license applications in California, Maryland, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and served as counsel to equity applicants in Oakland and San Francisco. She works with legacy growers in the Emerald Triangle and helped translate their needs to state regulators in 2019. A committed creative problem-solver, Hadas is a restorative justice practitioner and community organizer dedicated to using the law to expand equitable access to plant medicine.
She is the Policy Director of the New York psilocybin legalization campaign Democratize Healing and a Board Member of the Psychedelic Bar Association.
Insights
- The article Why 2020 Is a Banner Year for Drug Decriminalization—And What It Means for Public Health by Fiorella Valdesolo published on November 5, 2020 included a quote by Hadas Alterman and mentioned PMLG.
- Psychedelic Spotlight’s Jill Ettingeron interviewed Hadas Alterman about how she is helping to usher psychedelics into the mainstream from a legal and regulatory perspective. Episode 5 dropped on December 3, 2020.
- Gina Vensel and Elizabeth Sheldon of Plant Media Project interviewed Hadas Alterman and Adriana Kertzer for Episode 12.
- Hadas Alterman was interviewed by the Cannabis Law Review in January 2021.
