Title: Cannabis Law and Policy
Subtitle: Foundations, Frameworks and Emerging Issues
Subject Classification:  Law and Legal Ethics  
BIC Classification: LA
BISAC Classification: LAW118000, LAW026000, LAW001000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Publication date: 07 Jul 2026
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-802-1
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-803-8

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Description

Cannabis Law and Policy offers a comprehensive, doctrinal, and interdisciplinary analysis of how cannabis law intersects with constitutional, criminal, civil, and administrative legal systems in the United States. It draws from real-world case law, evolving statutory frameworks, and expert instruction across 13 structured chapters suitable for legal education and professional practice.

This book is structured from an actual law school course developed and taught by the author, a retired judge and national cannabis law expert. It provides readers with a foundational-to-advanced legal treatment of marijuana's evolving role in American courts—from the Marihuana Tax Act and Controlled Substances Act to cutting-edge litigation on gun rights, youth regulation, employment law, banking, and tribal jurisdiction. The book integrates live doctrinal teaching tools, case excerpts, and weekly lecture materials in one comprehensive volume.

It is designed to meet the needs of JD instruction, continuing legal education (CLE), and undergraduate cannabis-studies programs and certificate curricula. This work offers a comprehensive, authoritative resource for law students and faculty; undergraduate students and professors in cannabis programs; judges, attorneys, and CLE providers; drug-policy analysts and public health advocates; and practitioners engaged in science and research, civil rights, housing, employment, and criminal justice. Its breadth and clarity position it as a foundational text for classrooms, professional development, and applied practice in the rapidly evolving field of cannabis law and policy.

Biography

Author(s):  Judge Mary A. Celeste (ret.) sat on the Denver County Court bench 2000-2015. She was the Presiding Judge 2009-10 and the co-founder of the Denver County Court Sobriety Court. She is currently a law school professor teaching Cannabis and the Law at California Western School of Law and is considered a national content expert on the topic of cannabis. She is also the Director for the annual National Interdisciplinary Cannabis Symposium.

She is a former member of the Judicial Advisory Board for the Foundation for the Advancement of Alcohol Responsibility (FAAR); former Faculty for the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP) and the National Judicial College (NJC). She has also served as the past chair of ABA National Conference of Specialized Court Judges; the President of the American Judge’s Association and the Colorado Women’s Bar Association Foundation, and, as a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Judicial Outreach Liaison for Region 8. She has written many articles and is a national speaker on the topics of marijuana, marijuana and drug impaired driving, drugged driving, and specialty courts.

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