Mollie Hartman Lustig is the Chair of McLaughlin and Stern’s Cannabis Practice Group. Mollie’s clients include cannabis business operators, management service operators, cannabis vendors and cannabis investors. Her practice focuses on providing regulatory, licensing (both State and Local), and business/transactional counsel to clients. Mollie has been a member of the NJSBA’s Cannabis Law Special Committee (“CLSC”) since 2017 and is serving as the Secretary of the Committee for the 2023-2024 year. Mollie is also the Co-Chair of the CLSC’s Social Justice and Equity Subcommittee, and sits on the CLSC’s Municipal and Land Use Sub-committee. She has been and continues to be an NJICLE lecturer, speaking on topics including Diversely Held Businesses, Municipal Approvals, Sustainability and Labor Peace Agreements, has been a guest lecturer at the Yale Club, and is a frequent presenter for NJ.com’s Cannabis Insider programming. Mollie is an instructor at Rutgers Law School Certificate for their Cannabis Law and Business Certificate Program;  and was an invted panelist at Howard University Law School, Human and Civil Rights Law Review’s 8th Annual C. Clyde Ferguson Symposium. Mollie was named a Super Lawyers Rising Star in the area of Cannabis Law for 2022 and 2023; was named to the NJ Insider’s Top 100 Cannabis Power List (2022); and was recently awarded NJ.com’s 2023 Cannabis Award for Excellence in Cannabis Law: Municipal Law and nominated in the category of Excellence in Cannabis Law: Applications. She also brought home the award for Excellence in Cannabis Law for the Firm.