He is a partner and founding member of Vicente LLP, which Rolling Stone has labeled "the country's first powerhouse marijuana law firm.
[4] Vicente served as chair of the Committee for Responsible Regulation and was a member of the Colorado Department of Revenue Medical Marijuana Workgroup.
In 2018, Colorado Governor Jared Polis selected Vicente to serve as a member of his gubernatorial transition team, where he sat on the Economic Development and Labor Committee.
Vicente has also served as executive director of Sensible Colorado and on the boards of the Harm Reduction Action Center, the SAFER Voter Education Fund, and the City of Denver's Marijuana Policy Review Panel.Vicente is the co-founder and president of the National Hispanic Cannabis Council.
Vicente has conducted over one thousand interviews regarding marijuana policy, for national, state, and local media outlets; The Guardian called him "the (cannabis) industry's de facto spokesman".