Robert Hoban

Hoban Law Group

Bob Hoban is an AV® Preeminent™ rated attorney and seasoned full-service commercial practitioner. Hoban is also Principal and Owner at Solana Business Solutions, which offers comprehensive consulting, management, regulatory, and product solutions services for the entire commercial cannabis industry – serving both THC, CBD and hemp business models.

In 2016, Hoban was selected as a member of the Boulder Colorado inaugural Marijuana Policy Advisory Committee and asked to serve on the Colorado Department of Agriculture's Industrial Hemp Advisory Committee. Former President of the Cannabis Business Alliance, Hoban was also a member of the Colorado Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division Rules Committee and is currently a member of the National Hemp Association, National Cannabis Industry Association and Colorado Cannabis Chamber of Commerce. In addition, Hoban was involved as a drafter of Colorado’s marijuana regulatory legislation and has drafted over 30 bills for the Colorado General Assembly.

Hoban is a professor at the University of Denver in the Law and Society Program and regularly instructs regarding cannabis and hemp related legal and policy topics.  He also teaches government regulations, public policy and research-based policy courses.  In 2014, Hoban led a University-sanctioned research practicum concerning the efficacy of marijuana regulation; the first of its kind in the U.S.  This course resulted in a publication entitled "Sprung from Night into the Sun: An Examination of Colorado’s Marijuana Regulatory Framework," published in the December, 2015 edition of the Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law.