El Monte, CA – The City Council voted Tuesday to move forward with new rules allowing operators on the business side of the medical marijuana industry — distributors, manufacturers and lab testers among them — to set up shop in the city, while still banning retail outlets selling the drug to patients. The council voted […]
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California’s Cannabis Distributor Rules Disrupt Model, Allow Licensees to Act As Their Own Distributors
Under California’s now-repealed Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (“MCRSA”), would-be distributors would have had a field day (which became the subject of great debate industry wide). Under the MCRSA, California’s cannabis cultivators and manufacturers would have had to sell their products to licensed distributors who would then sell those products to licensed retailers. MCRSA distributors had to be separately […]
L. A. Land Use Rules for Cannabis Businesses Come Under Fire
The Southern California Coalition, organized to implement sensible marijuana policies, along with safeguards to regulate, control and tax the legal sale of cannabis, has requested that the city of Los Angeles make changes to the city’s cannabis land use to clear up ambiguities and prepare for deeper scrutiny as the state organizes it’s medical and recreational […]
California Is Growing Far More Marijuana Than It Smokes
People who closely follow the the cannabis industry have had a good laugh lately at headlines like “Marijuana Shortage Prompts Emergency In Nevada.” But you’ll be none too surprised to hear that California finds itself having exactly the opposite problem. California is growing far more marijuana than it actually consumes, the head of the California Growers […]
L.A. Cannabis Task Force Exec. Director: ‘It’s Time to Rise and Shine’
Commercial cannabis in the City of Los Angeles is at a critical crossroads. Medical and recreational cannabis are legal in California, the state will issue licenses at the start of 2018 and a whopping 80 percent of L.A. voters approved a measure to regulate and tax commercial cannabis. Yet last month, L.A.’s city council released […]
State Powers, Regulations and Fair Taxation Are At The Heart of Legalizing Marijuana
By Tom Lackey, Assemblyman (R-CA) When I was first elected to the California State Legislature back in 2014, I too, admittedly, was skeptical about whether taxing and regulating cannabis could be effectively implemented. As someone who spent 28 years in the California Highway Patrol, grew up in a small-town mining town in the Mojave Desert […]
Southern California Coalition Issues Commentary and Proposed Solutions for L.A. Cannabis Social Equity Program
PRESS RELEASE LOS ANGELES—Southern California Coalition (SCC), the largest, most inclusive cannabis industry trade organization in Southern California, issued the following commentary and proposed solutions to Los Angeles City Council regarding the City of Los Angeles’s social equity program and its implementation under Proposition M, the world’s most comprehensive legalization regulatory framework. ________________________________________ Southern California Coalition’s […]
California Treasurer on Cannabis Banking: “There May Be Some Magic in Our Efforts”
In December, 2016, California State Treasurer John Chiang created a cannabis banking working group of members who hail from business and government – Lori Ajax, chief of the Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation; David Haithcock, executive director of the California Community Banking Network; Courtney Jensen, California and Nevada Credit Union League and 13 others – […]
What is My Local Marijuana Law in California?
California marijuana law has gotten more complicated than ever. On one hand, legalization initiative Proposition 64 allows all adults 21 and over to possess up to an ounce of cannabis buds, seven grams of extract, and grow six plants in their homes. But what about access to medical marijuana dispensaries? What about growing some plants […]
Preparing for the Coming Economic Shift in California as Adult Use Looms
There is a big economic shift coming to California’s cannabis industry in January, when recreational adult use becomes operational. But the economic shift may be bigger than expected, according to report by the Bureau of Marijuana Control (BMC), even with projections based on assumptions about an industry that is short of reliable economic data. Data […]
