I just arrived in Las Vegas for MJBizCon 2018. It’s an event that touts itself as the marijuana industry’s biggest trade show (not sure how you measure that when the world seems awash in marijuana conferences and expos). Getting ready, I keep thinking about my experiences at the first MJBizCon in November 2014, when the event was much smaller, but the stakes for me were much, much higher…

I sat on the hard wooden bench in the cramped, sterile courtroom, every nerve in my body tingling with anxiety, waiting for the court officer to call my name and read me the criminal charges that had been levelled against me…