On Feb. 10, 2015, Bill Berger and Matt Arentsen led a roundtable discussion at the Hospitality Law Conference in Houston, Texas. Speakers and attendees at the conference represented a broad spectrum of hospitality industry participants, including private attorneys, hotel and restaurant corporate counsel, risk managers, finance executives, real estate developers, human resources managers, loss prevention managers, insurance brokers, and hotel and restaurant owners, managers and operators. Their presentation, titled “How New Marijuana Laws Will Impact the Hospitality Industry,” addressed all 50 states’ varying approaches to the rapidly evolving marijuana-permissive laws. In addition to discussing the current state of the law in all 50 states, Bill and Matt focused on what such laws may mean for hospitality industry companies.

Bill and Matt’s discussion centered on the following topics...