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Cultivating Crime: The Dark Side of Legal Marijuana by [Anne van Leynseele]

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A TRUE-LIFE LEGAL THRILLER AND THE FIRST INSIDER TELL-ALL

A debate on whether marijuana should be legalized or not continues across the United States. What are the systemic problems within the legal marijuana industry? What are the dangers associated with the federal legalization of the marijuana? Why is stricter enforcement of states’ regulations needed in the legal marijuana industry? Anne van Leynseele’s eye-opening, informative memoir tells it all.

Narrated from the perspective of a top corporate and regulatory Cannabis Lawyer, this book reveals the flaws and abuses in the marijuana industry leading to criminal and illegal activity. Cultivating Crime educates readers about the cannabis laws and policy in the US while highlighting the emerging opportunities in the cannabis industry. It uncovers the racism, sexism, and white male bias in the legal profession and justice system.

In this book, van Leynseele condensed her years of harsh, front line experience and deep understanding of the cannabis industry. Unveiling the corruption in the legal cannabis industry, she reveals how crime thrives under cover of law with the help of dishonest and unethical professionals, leading to dangers that are hidden from the public to protect the vast sums of black-market money in the legalized marijuana industry.

In her expose of the legal cannabis industry, van Leynseele also talks about how the potential of women and minority groups is limited. She shares what hinders legal marijuana from becoming the first billion-dollar industry run by women, as was predicted when it was first legalized in 2012 for Colorado and Washington. Her well-informed recommendations are meant to facilitate better choices for current and future cannabis business leaders and the general public.

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"What a story! Cultivating Crime: The Dark Side of Legal Marijuana is part historical record and part true crime novel. Required reading for anyone involved in Washington's Cannabis industry and highly recommended reading for anyone considering starting a Cannabis Business. Anne van Leynseele tells a cautionary tale about where the Cannabis industry is and offers solutions for making things right." —Chuck Olivier, Dimebag Scale Company

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As one of the leading figures in the fight for legal cannabis reform, Anne van Leynseele is a legal expert, author, speaker, and the founding and managing partner of 7 Point Law. Armed with over 30 years of extensive experience, Anne is passionate about challenging the status quo and fighting for marijuana legalization in the legal and regulatory world.

Throughout her long career, Anne has educated, counseled, and protected the financial interests of cannabis companies and private investors. Her unique guidance and visionary approach has enabled her to lead hundreds of clients to maximize their businesses and comply with the ever-evolving state regulations and policy.

In her spare time, Anne mentors at-risk youth, is an amateur fashionista, an avid surfer, and a triathlon competitor, and she also co-manages her avocado and chocolate farm on the Big Island of Hawaii. For more information, visit

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09L2KFZ7Z
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cultivating Change (November 16, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 16, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2606 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 370 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B09LY6QF9W
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- #79 in Biographies of Lawyers & Judges

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Anne van Leynseele’s present law and consulting practice focuses on the regulatory compliance, expansion, and exit strategies of domestic and trans-national cannabis, CBD, and hemp companies and provides counsel to national and international non-cannabis businesses seeking entry to the cannabis space. Before entering this highly regulated industry, Anne spent four years as a federal attorney-advisor in Washington DC. Prior to that, Anne managed commercial transactions, business development of production and technology start-up entities, advised on process efficiency, defined stronger corporate communication strategies for many Fortune 100 companies, and did business management consulting in Sydney, Australia.

In her spare time, Anne van Leynseele mentors at-risk youth, surfs, travels, is an amateur fashionista, and co-owns/manages an international award-winning chocolate farm on the Big Island of Hawai’i. Her first book Cultivating Crime: The Dark Side of Legal Marijuana is a true-life legal thriller exposing white and red collar crime in the cannabis industry and male bias in the legal system. Having just finished, Savor Your Chocolate, Anne is refining her patent-pending processing technique for cacao into a savory product line and developing her website www.FlavoroftheHand.com to encourage capturing family food traditions.

Next under her publishing company, Cultivating Change Media, Anne tells the true story of two Gen-Z gamers who untangle the mysteries of the Robinhood/GameStop debacle in Young Trades. Currently in development is Girls to Rule, wherein Anne works with a world-class documentary photographer as she delves into the societal forces that oppress girls ages 10 to 18. Through sharing exemplary girls’ individual success stories, Anne proposes needed interventions to thwart stifling girls to build more strong women to run the world.

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Jennifer Epps

We should ALL care what's behind the curtain

Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2021

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Deep inside the nitty gritty world of white collar crime, this true, first-hand account will make your blood boil. My faith in the legal justice system is continually shaken by current events, and this is only one small part of the overlooked Good Ol' Boys club.
If it doesn't happen to you, why should you care? - We Should ALL Care when we can now see behind the curtain.
Anne van Leynseele has written an important, and cautionary tale.

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MarkJinLA

An Eye-Opening Look at Legalized Cannabis

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2022

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In her riveting new book Cultivating Crime, attorney Anne van Leynseele details her eye-opening experiences in the rough-and-tumble world of legalized cannabis. Founder of one of the country’s first cannabis law firms, Anne reveals the raw underbelly of an industry making the awkward transition from underground to legitimacy, and her candid assessment raises troubling concerns about whether our legal system is adequately prepared to manage the current field.

The book unfolds like a gripping detective story, and while it’s a relatively quick read it paints a vivid and detailed picture of the clients, colleagues and bureaucrats that make up this rapidly expanding business sector.

Cultivating Crime should be required reading for lawyers and others in the cannabis trade, and it also offers much to readers like me with only passing interest in weed. At heart, it is a cautionary tale about the importance of choosing one’s partners carefully. Despite similar goals and what turned out to be complementary skill sets, Anne’s enthusiasm and confidence in her own abilities led her to join forces with the wrong partner, and escaping a bad relationship is typically a whole lot harder than getting in.

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Shocked reader

How does this happen?

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2021

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Cultivating Crime is gripping, shocking and infuriating at the same time. How does this happen? How can so many organizations turn a blind eye to injustice and criminal activity. How can he still practice law in the State of Washington? I highly recommend this book if you are interested in white collar crime within the legal system. Van Leynseele deftly navigates the shadier side of the legal cannabis industry while holding strong to her ethical standards. A must read!

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Gabriela Saenz-Seitz

Whoa! Must read!

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2022

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Unbelievable what transpired in this first hand account of the legal industry and the justice system gone awry! The author's clever and innovative style in presenting this events is refreshing, easy to read, and keeps the reader engaged. As time goes on, my trust in the legal system diminishes; and that is saying a lot as I work in the legal industry!

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Amazing look inside the industry

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2021

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This book sheds so much more light at the grappling of grey market cannabis on the verge of being completely legalized federally from what it appears a person on the front lines.

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Rattan bains

Wow! Eye opening.

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2021

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Very interesting true story. I had no idea, how corrupt the legal system is. This story needed to be told and I hope it helps bring change.
Highly recommend it.

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Grandma Cat

The True Story of the Ugly collision of Marijuana, Prohibition's end and the Legal profession

Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2021

This should be required reading for anyone attempting to change a deeply ingrained legal or societal
prohibition. Ms van Leyenseele takes us for a deep dive into the danger and frustration of changing the legal landscape surrounding cannabis in Washington state's first few years of attempted regulation. Her fast paced prose alternately had me laughing out loud at her spot on characterization of outlaws trying to become legal and crying at the tactics of some of the legal profession that seemed to desire ongoing illegality.
Cultivating Crime is engaging and easy to read. The deep dives into specific Washington revised legal codes can be easily jumped over without losing the tale's momentum if you are not inclined to legalese. On the other hand, it is just that detail that makes for excellent reading if you are legally inclined or similarly interested in the specifics of repealing prohibition.
At the end of the day though this is a retelling of a common story, the frequent diminishing of women in the workplace regardless of their strength or abilities. We read in horror as Ms van Leyenseele is deceived and gaslighted at every step by her partner, then the legal system with the only consequences of her partner's reprehensible behavior and acts falling on her because she "blew the whistle" and attempted to extricate herself from an untenable and unlawful situation.
I can highly recommend this read as both a cautionary tale and an interesting telling of the early legalization of cannabis. I find myself hoping that Ms van Leyenseele will find solace and healing from the telling of her honest tale.

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Heather Urschel

A cry for accountability!

Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2021

This book will be valuable and hopefully eye-opening for anyone within the cannabis industry or business and cannabis law, or those attuned to the challenges and failures of Washington’s marijuana legalization. A true business lawyer (rather than, as she put it, “criminal lawyers . . . with no experience in business but [who] added business law to their websites”), Van Leynseele’s insightful and detailed exposé of an inside player’s criminal behavior and the subsequent lack of justice truly reveals the many possible future abuses and corruptions of the system. It’s hard not to hope that this tell-all will end with accountability . . . for Aaron, as well as in the industry as a whole. The book is also just a great story of a determined lawyer learning to navigate and make a living in a tough and relatively new industry, in the face of ridiculous behavior and situations and players. As a reader you really root for her!

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