Alex Thompson
Paralegal
Alex Thompson is a regulatory specialist and paralegal at Feuerstein Kulick, primarily supporting the firm’s licensing, regulatory compliance, and corporate practices. Alex came to the firm with extensive working experience within commercial cannabis cultivation, manufacturing, retail, and distribution environments across the country.
While a PhD student at the University of Colorado—Boulder, in 2011, Alex found life-changing relief from a chronic health issue upon becoming a medical cannabis patient. Subsequently, he developed a profound passion for the plant, choosing it as the topic for his doctoral research. Alex studied the cultural conflicts created within Colorado’s medical cannabis industry with the passage of the state’s adult-use Amendment 64, in 2012. At the same time, Alex taught multiple undergraduate courses dealing with drug control policy and criminal justice reform.
After deciding to leave his doctoral program, to pursue a career in cannabis, Alex worked for licensed cannabis operators in Colorado, California, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, in various regulatory compliance and operations roles. Today, through more than a decade of diverse, hands-on experience, Alex is skilled at comprehensive cannabis business licensing, operational compliance oversight, SOP development, multiple methods of botanical extraction, cannabis product infusion, R&D and QA batch sampling, PPPA-compliant packaging and labeling reviews, seed-to-sale and ERP batch-tracking, retail sales, and distribution coordination.
Education
University of Wisconsin – La Crosse (B.S. in Sociology, 2008)
University of Connecticut (M.A. in Sociology, 2011)
University of Colorado – Boulder (Sociology, 2011 – 2016)