Meet the team
Chris mchugh
President • CEO
Chris McHugh serves as our President and CEO. Chris is a cannabis industry attorney who was voted Greenway Magazine Cannabis Attorney of the Year in Kansas City in 2019/2020. He is a twenty-year veteran litigator who has first-chaired important and high stakes civil cases where up to $90 million was at stake. In 2017, he fought and won the case of Carlson v. NASA over ownership of the Apollo 11 Lunar Sample Contingency Bag used by Neil Armstrong to gather the very first rocks from the surface of the moon. Chris is a member of the National Cannabis Industry Association’s (NCIA) State Regulation Board, and the Board of Directors for the Missouri Medical Marijuana Industry Association (MoCannTrade). Chris has a dog named Atlas who is incredibly vicious and has attempted to maim Drew and Brad.
Chris mchugh
President • CEO
Chris McHugh serves as our President and CEO. Chris is a cannabis industry attorney who was voted Greenway Magazine Cannabis Attorney of the Year in Kansas City in 2019/2020. He is a twenty-year veteran litigator who has first-chaired important and high stakes civil cases where up to $90 million was at stake. In 2017, he fought and won the case of Carlson v. NASA over ownership of the Apollo 11 Lunar Sample Contingency Bag used by Neil Armstrong to gather the very first rocks from the surface of the moon. Chris is a member of the National Cannabis Industry Association’s (NCIA) State Regulation Board, and the Board of Directors for the Missouri Medical Marijuana Industry Association (MoCannTrade). Chris has a dog named Atlas who is incredibly vicious and has attempted to maim Drew and Brad.

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