Marc Hauser

General Counsel

Khalifa Kush

Marc Hauser - Marc one of the leading authorities in the U.S. cannabis industry.  Currently Chief of Staff at Jardín in Las Vegas and General Counsel of Khalifa Kush after a nearly 25-year career as a deal and capital markets lawyer handling untold billions of dollars in transactions, Marc was previously Chair of the cannabis practice at Reed Smith LLP, a global law firm, and personal deal counsel for fifteen years to Chicago-based investor Sam Zell at Equity Group Investments. He is the author of Cannabis Musings, which has been providing irreverent commentary on the industry since 2018, and teaches cannabis law as an Adjunct Professor at both the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (his alma mater) and the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law.  Marc graduated from Northwestern University in 1995, and cum laude from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in 1998, where he was a member of the Law Review.