Courtney Barnes is a Founding Partner at Barnes Caplan, LLC, a boutique hemp business law firm based in Denver, Colorado. Ms. Barnes advises clients on regulatory compliance, risk management, and other strategic matters as it relates to the production and distribution of hemp and other plant-based products in the United States. Ms. Barnes also specializes in complex legal analysis relating to the manufacture, marketing, and sale of a variety of natural compounds and has extensive experience drafting and helping to implement state and local policy reform measures relating to the decriminalization of psychedelics and the establishment of cannabis regulatory regimes (inclusive of hemp and marijuana).