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Los Angeles attorney Michelle Mabugat occasionally jokes about burying a time capsule filled with items reflecting the recent state of cannabis law in the U.S. and imagines opening it in 20 years to marvel at how much has changed.
“It will be a whole new world,” she says with a laugh.
It will not be the first new world in the cannabis industry the young corporate and transactional attorney for Greenberg Glusker will have witnessed. She’s been practicing cannabis law from the early days of legal medical marijuana when there were less than a handful of attorneys focused on the field throughout California. After a decade of building a practice specializing in cannabis law, Mabugat is now recognized as one of the most prominent attorneys in the mushrooming legitimate marijuana industry.
Her role as a pioneer in the emerging legal space can be attributed to some fortuitous timing, a keen sense for opportunity, a dynamic spirit, and a talent for strategic, creative problem solving.
Mabugat says she may not have gone to law school at all if she had not run up against organic chemistry at UCLA where she was a psychobiology major on a pre-med track.
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