Noah Potter, Esq.
Noah Potter, Esq. has been practicing law as a commercial litigator in New York City since 2000. He became a drug policy reform advocate while an undergraduate political science student in 1993, and studied the evolution of the federal drug control bureaucracy. He is of counsel to the Hoban Law Group, former chair and current member of the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Drugs and the Law, author of the New Amsterdam Psychedelic Law blog (and creator of the term “psychedelic law”), an organizer of the New York City Cannabis Parade, and a media commentator. In 2018, he assisted the Denver mushroom decriminalization campaign in selecting the language for the ballot initiative.
Graham M. Pechenik, Esq.
Graham is the founder of Calyx Law, the first intellectual property law boutique to focus on cannabis and psychedelics. He is a registered patent attorney with degrees in Biochemistry and Cognitive Neuroscience. Graham founded Calyx Law in 2016, after a decade at law firms in New York and San Francisco where he obtained and defended patents on behalf of Fortune 500 companies in the agricultural, chemical, pharmaceutical, biotech, and technology industries.
At Calyx Law, Graham has filed dozens of patents in the cannabis and psychedelics spaces, on such inventions as novel chemical compounds, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical formulations, methods of treatment, extraction processes and equipment, mechanical devices, and software. Graham also assists clients with trademarks and contracts, works on legal issues at the intersection of psychedelics with digital health and data privacy, and writes about psychedelic patents as editor-at-large of Psilocybin Alpha.
