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Cannapliant Consulting advises cannabusinesses and their owners on a wide range of issues involving compliance in the cannabis industry.  Cannapliant Consulting can advise you and your cannabusiness on compliance with cannabis-related federal guidance, state laws, and local government rules and regulations including corporate governance, financial transparency, cannabis banking and capital raising, employee and contractor hiring, firing, licensing and training, contracts and agreements, sales and marketing practices, product labeling and packaging, seed-to-sale tracking, security plans, waste disposal and anti-diversion, and mergers and acquisitions.  Cannapliant Consulting can also work with you to prepare written policies and procedures for your documented compliance program.  Cannapliant Consulting is not a law firm and its employees and principals do not provide legal advice or serve as legal counsel for its clients.

Foundational compliance starts before operations even begin, and the best way to create a culture of compliance in your cannabusiness is by laying the foundation in your license application, and then implementing those policies and procedures after your license is issued.  In most states, the license application process can be highly competitive, and it is important that your cannabusiness has the best team in place to draft and submit your application with the mostly highly competitive advantage possible.  Cannapliant Consulting builds off its prior experience in drafting license applications and has access to other leading experts in the cannabis industry in the areas of operations, financing, security, and management.  Cannapliant Consulting's founder has written numerous applications (or parts of applications) for cannabusiness licenses in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Florida and Utah.  Cannapliant Consulting has also participated in the drafting of cannabusiness license applications in many other states, including assisting hemp-dervied Delta-9 THC manufacturers and retailers register with the Minnesota Department of Health.  

Regulatory investigations and enforcement actions are where a cannabusiness' compliance program can be highly scrutinized and tested.  The threat of monetary sanctions, license suspension or license revocation could make or break the future of your cannabusiness and investments.  Not only is it important that you have a fully developed and implemented cannabis program before the regulators knock on your door, but after an investigation or enforcement action has been commenced, it is even more important that you have a team in your corner with experience working with cannabis regulators.  Cannapliant Consulting's founder not only has almost 20 years of experience with regulatory investigations and enforcement actions in the financial services industry (SEC, FINRA and state securities regulators), but he also has almost 10 years of experience advising cannabusinesses under investigation or named in enforcement actions by state cannabis regulators including the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division ("MED"), the Montana Cannabis Control Division ("CCD"), the Arizona Department of Health Services, and the Minnesota Office of Medical Cannabis.

Whether you are looking to invest in a cannabusiness, expand your operations through an acquisition, or looking to provide ancillary products or services for a licensed cannabusiness, you can learn a lot about the cannabusiness through due diligence.  With its founder having almost 10 years of experience conducting due diligence on cannabusinesses for investors, acquiring companies, banks, and other financial institutions, Cannapliant Consulting has the experience necessary to dig into every cannabusiness and ask the important questions to ensure that the target cannabusiness is fully compliant with federal guidance, state laws, and local rules and regulations, thereby making sure that your investments into that cannabusiness are fully protected.

Although Cannapliant Consulting provides most of the services found in the job description of a Chief Compliance Officer of any cannabusiness, some feel it necessary to have a formal compliance officer included in its cannabusiness' organizational structure.  Therefore, in certain circumstances, Cannapliant Consulting's founder is able to serve in that capacity for those cannabusinesses that deem it necessary to not just receive Cannapliant Consulting's compliance services but attach a title to the person providing those services for its organizational structure.