At Infinite Chemical Analysis Labs, it’s our job to help our clients ensure that their product is in compliance with California State Law, BCC, CDFA, and CDPH regulations through our quality assurance and cannabis testing services. We send laboratory sample technicians out to licensed cannabis cultivation, manufacturing, and distribution sites often to collect cannabis samples […]
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L.A. revamps rules for cannabis licensing, hoping to redress harm from war on drugs
Los Angeles is revamping its rules for handing out licenses to cannabis businesses, amid anger and disappointment over the tumultuous rollout of a program meant to address the damage done by criminalizing marijuana. The rules passed unanimously Wednesday by the Los Angeles City Council tighten the criteria for new applicants seeking to qualify for the […]
California cities begin embracing cannabis in desperate search for cash
OAKLAND — California local governments scrambling to find tax revenues during the coronavirus pandemic are turning toward an industry they had considered taboo until now: cannabis. It has been almost four years since voters legalized recreational marijuana in California, and nearly 70 percent of cities and counties have yet to embrace pot businesses because they […]
DA moves to dismiss more than 1,000 marijuana convictions in Santa Cruz County
More than a thousand marijuana-related convictions dating back as far as 1969 may soon be thrown out in Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz County District Attorney Jeff Rosell announced Thursday he has petitioned local courts to reduce, dismiss and seal a total of 1,169 marijuana cases involving 1,085 defendants. “Our office recognized the undue burden […]
LA Gives Initial OK for Reboot of Marijuana Marketplace
Los Angeles moved Wednesday to reboot its once-promising legal marijuana market, giving initial approval to changes large and small to expand licensing and get more assistance to operators who endured the consequences of the nation’s war on drugs. Broad legal sales kicked off in California in 2018, and at that time Los Angeles was expected […]
Cannabis and CBD Companies Subject to Increased Prop 65 Exposure
By Ian A. Stewart Cannabis and CBD companies must prepare for increased liability under California’s notorious Proposition 65 statute. THC has been added to the list of chemicals for which Prop 65 warnings are required. The statute now identifies THC as a chemical that may cause reproductive harm and no “safe harbor” level has yet […]
California’s Local Marijuana Laws Fail to Heed Decades of Lessons from Tobacco Controls
PRESS RELEASE Allowing high potency products, fruit flavored and candy-like products designed to attract youth, aggressive marketing, and a lack of accurate information has led to a market that fails to protect young people from marijuana health risks, says JAMA Network Open study Oakland, CA- A study published today by Public Health Institute (PHI) researchers […]
Black Cannabis Entrepreneurs: Cut Marijuana Taxes, Defund The Police
Black cannabis entrepreneurs are calling for a repeal of marijuana taxes that dedicate funding to police and law enforcement. Along with massive demonstrations in almost every American city—and many small towns—the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man suspected of a nonviolent crime, by Minneapolis police on May 25 has triggered calls to re-evaluate […]
California wants to hire more cannabis cops to get a handle on black market marijuana
California’s Bureau of Cannabis Control is looking to beef up its law enforcement presence. The bureau in a new state budget request is asking lawmakers to let it build an 87-member police force that would enforce the 2016 law voters passed legalizing recreational cannabis. It’d create the law enforcement branch by absorbing 58 positions from […]
L.A. Cannabis Update: Little Fires Everywhere
By Hilary Bricken, Co-Founder, Harris Bricken The City of Los Angeles is no stranger to change and struggle around its local cannabis industry. Since the passage of Proposition M back in 2017, the City has made great strides but also suffered significant setbacks in building its licensed cannabis marketplace. Even through the COVID-19 pandemic, this […]
