Legal Resource Center

Notice

The Legal Resource Center for Public Health Policy--Tobacco and the Legal Resource Center for Public Health Policy--Cannabis teams will cease operations effective June 15, 2025, to close out our current 5-year funding cycle that ends on June 30, 2025. After June 15, 2025, we will no longer respond to requests for technical assistance or be able to attend meetings. Email addresses for Brooke Torton, Blair Inniss, Mathew Swinburne, Annie Carver, and George Townsend will be deactivated as of June 30, 2025.

As of this time, we are awaiting funding to continue operations past June 30th. We will notify you as soon as possible when the LRC becomes operational again. We are eager to support you as we have for 24 years!

If you have any questions, please contact Dana Moncrief at dana.moncrief@maryland.gov.

 

PLEASE NOTE: The LRC-Cannabis webinar scheduled for June 26,  will take place as planned.
Topic: Cannabis Use Disorder
Registration Link: https://umaryland.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_q7-0cJNcRHmH8v4G1nBwXg

 

The LRC provides technical legal assistance to state and local public health officials and legislators, federal agencies, national organizations, and others across the country. While the LRC's primary focus is on critical issues in the regulation of tobacco, cannabis, gambling, school health, and injury prevention; the LRC also has extensive expertise in legal epidemiology, helping researchers, policymakers, and advocates identify and demonstrate the ways that law can (and does) serve as both a cause and a powerful solution to most public health problems. 

Center Activities

  • Tobacco

    Tobacco

    Providing legal technical assistance on tobacco law and policy issues to legislators, government agencies, community organizations, and Maryland residents.

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  • Cannabis

    Cannabis

    Helping Maryland understand and address the public health issues associated with cannabis legalization.

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  • Gambling

    Gambling

    Helping policymakers, advocates, and regulators understand and develop laws and policies that mitigate negative impacts of gambling on public health.

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  • Injury Prevention

    Injury Prevention

    Providing research and legal technical assistance to researchers, policymakers, and advocates on understanding, developing, and implementing laws that prevent injury and injury-related morbidity and death across the lifespan.

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  • School Health

    School Health

    Providing research and legal technical assistance to researchers, policymakers, and advocates across the country on understanding, developing, and implementing laws to improve school health and wellness.

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  • Legal Epidemiology

    Legal Epidemiology

    Helping researchers, advocates, and policymakers understand and demonstrate the impact of law as a social determinant of health.

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Public Health Law Clinic

With attorneys in the LRC, law students in the Public Health Law Clinic learn to practice public health law by engaging in the work of the LRC.

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Upcoming Events

Tobacco

  • 9th Annual Tobacco Control Conference

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Cannabis

  • None at this time.

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Gambling

See past gambling events

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