Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is delighted to announce that Minneapolis partners Amy DuMond Kottke and Mitchel (“Mitch”) Chargo have been named 2026 Top Lawyers in Minnesota by Minnesota Monthly magazine.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that Mitchel Chargo, a partner and head of its Cannabis Law Committee, has been named by Cannabis Law Report to the Sixth Edition of the Global Top 200 Cannabis Lawyers 2025/2026.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that 80 lawyers are recognized in the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, with ten receiving this honor for the first time. Additionally, 22 Hinshaw lawyers are included in The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.

Read the Cannabis Industry Journal's recent coverage of key takeaways from Hinshaw partner Mitch Chargo’s panel presentations at the MJBizCon conference, which took place last month in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Read Hinshaw partner Mitch Chargo’s insights in media stories by AZ Big Media and KTTC Rochester discussing the significant impact of President Donald Trump’s Executive Order that reschedules cannabis from a Schedule I to Schedule III substance.

Explore Mitch Chargo's insights featured in Forbes Magazine on how Minnesota's new cannabis regulation paves the way for innovative business opportunities.

Hinshaw partner Mitchel Chargo will present on Indigenous State Compacts at the International Cannabis Symposium 2026, held at the University of Cape Town in South Africa from June 25 to June 27.

Hinshaw partner Mitch Chargo will speak at NECANN’s inaugural Cannabis Convention in Minnesota, taking place on May 14-15 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.  

Hinshaw partner Mitchel Chargo will speak in two sessions at the upcoming Flourish Investment Forum on May 12-13.

Minneapolis-based partner Mitchel Chargo will present on the panel "Pivot & Thrive: Building a Future in Cannabis from the Ground Up" at CannaCon Midwest at 3:00 p.m. on August 10, 2025, in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Earlier this week, we learned that the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will likely reclassify marijuana under federal law from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) based upon the recommendation from the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

Many years ago, the Beatles released a hit song titled "Got to Get You Into my Life," a veiled reference to cannabis use. Recently, the Minnesota legislature took a significant step toward bringing adult recreational use cannabis into the lives of Minnesotans. The mammoth bill legalizing adult recreational use was introduced to the Minnesota legislature in January and is currently moving through the House and the Senate. It is a whopper, weighing in at well over 200 pages. Here are ten high points to know about the bill, which is subject to ongoing change as it winds its way toward the Governor's desk.