Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• The practical and ethical challenges of advising state medical marijuana patients, cultivators, and dispensaries in the era of professed federal non-enforcement.  Discussion will include a brief history of the interaction between federal prohibition and state laws permitting the use of medical marijuana, approaches to challenges likely to be encountered by practitioners who advise medical marijuana clients, and practical considerations when representing a state medical marijuana client who has been charged with a violation of federal law., Medical Marijuana and the Federal Non-Enforcement Policy, 2011
• While serving a life sentence at Colorado Women’s Correctional Facility in Canon City, Colorado, twenty-five-year-old Lisl Auman wrote an off-chance letter to legendary Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson to complain that his books were not available in the prison library. Auman’s tragic journey began in 1997 when she took a ride in the Thunder Chicken—a freshly stolen red Trans Am—with skinhead Matthaeus Jaehnig. Their brief and devastating journey resulted in the death of Denver Police Officer Bruce VanderJagt. Jaehnig shot VanderJagt then turned the gun on himself—all while Auman was already in handcuffs in a police cruiser. Two officers later said they saw Auman hand Jaehnig the murder weapon and she was sentenced to life without parole.   Communications strategist Matthew Moseley and attorney Tom Ward, along with Thompson, organized a grassroots campaign to free Lisl Auman from prison and to take on the Draconian felony murder law. In this webcast, Moseley and Ward, will discuss Auman’s epic struggle for justice, why the felony murder rule should be abolished, and take you inside the last—and perhaps greatest—Gonzo crusade., Felony Murder, Hunter S. Thompson, and the Last Gonzo Campaign, West LegalEdCenter, 2011