SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California would set standards for organic marijuana, allow pot samples at county fairs and permit home deliveries under legislation set to be considered by lawmakers Thursday as the state prepares for next year’s start of legal marijuana sales. Lawmakers and Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration are working to merge California’s new voter-approved recreational […]
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California MMJ Program: Review Your Lease Because Regulations Are Coming
June 13 and 14, 2017, marked the respective deadlines for public comment on California’s proposed medical cannabis manufacturing regulations and proposed regulations for medical cannabis cultivation (see more at the California Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation). Although the proposed regulations are not law, they provide some guidance as to what landlords and tenants should be […]
California’s Marijuana Market Could Be Worth $5 Billion, Study Predicts
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is on the verge of creating a legal market for marijuana worth more than $5 billion that will help make the state a destination for pot-loving tourists, according to a new state-sponsored economic study. But about 29 percent of all cannabis consumers may stay in the illegal market at first to […]
California Is on Its Way to Becoming a Marijuana ‘Sanctuary State’
California moved a step closer Thursday to becoming a “sanctuary state” where local and state police would not assist federal enforcement of marijuana laws. The state Assembly approved a bill Thursday barring state and local law enforcement officers, absent a court order, from helping federal drug agents in arresting people who are complying with state […]
California’s Prop 64 Allows Some Marijuana Convicts to Wipe Their Record Clean
Jay Schlauch’s conviction for peddling pot haunted him for nearly a quarter century. The felony prevented him from landing jobs, gave his wife doubts about tying the knot and cast a shadow over his typically sunny outlook on life. So when an opportunity arose to reduce his record to a misdemeanor under the voter-approved law […]
California Proposes New Medical Marijuana Regulations for a Cleaner, Safer Product
Medical pot patients could see their marijuana become cleaner and safer, with the cost jumping about 10 percent, under new draft regulations for California’s multibillion-dollar medical cannabis industry. Friday afternoon, a trio of state agencies released 114 pages of draft rules for the medical cannabis industry. The rules cover every aspect of growing, processing, distributing […]
California cannabis group of stakeholders working on banking solutions
With the passage of California Proposition 64, the California Marijuana Legalization Initiative, in November, 2016, came a plethora of questions surrounding the regulatory processes that must be established before the sale of adult-use cannabis begins on January 1, 2018. The primary question: How does the state bank the cannabis industry? It seems paradoxical to require […]
California Studies How Marijuana Farming Effects State’s Energy
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — As California gears up for the implementation of Proposition 64, which legalized recreational marijuana use, state regulators are trying to figure out how the new industry will impact the energy supply. In February, the California Public Utilities Commission held a workshop to assess the potential energy impacts of widespread legal […]
Proposed Legislation Merges Medical and Recreational Regulatory Framework
By David Hodes A reliable source closely connected to action in California cannabis legislation has reported the introduction of a budget trailer bill that proposes changes to the state’s cannabis laws which would effectively merge medical and recreational cannabis into a single regulatory framework. The proposed bill will use language and regulation proposals from Proposition […]
New Bill Would Essentially Make California a Marijuana Sanctuary State
California legislators have taken a page from laws establishing sanctuary cities for immigrants to create a measure aimed at protecting marijuana from a federal crackdown. Similar to laws shielding undocumented immigrants, the recently introduced Assembly Bill 1578 would bar cooperation by police in the state with federal authorities seeking to bust marijuana growers and sellers operating […]
