Ms. Barnes advises clients on regulatory compliance and risk management and specializes in complex legal analyses regarding the manufacture, marketing, and sale of a variety of natural compounds. Courtney also has extensive experience drafting and helping to implement state and local policy reform measures relating to the decriminalization of psychedelics and the establishment of cannabis regulatory regimes (inclusive of hemp and marijuana). Most notably, she assisted with the drafting and implementation of Denver’s social use ordinance, titled The Neighborhood Approved Cannabis Consumption Pilot Program Initiative (I-300) in 2016; the drafting of Denver’s Psilocybin Decriminalization Initiative (I-301) in 2018; the drafting of Texas House Bill 1325, establishing a state commercial hemp program in 2019; and the drafting of the Oakland Community Healing Initiative, a local ordinance designed to regulate and protect facilitators and participants engaging in community-based healing ceremonies involving the use of entheogens in 2020. In addition to her legal practice, Ms. Barnes works as a policy advisor for Decriminalize Nature and serves on the advisory board of the Society for Psychedelic Outreach, Reform, and Education (SPORE) and Heroic Hearts Project, Inc.