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Illegal cannabis farms raking in billions for cartels are being destroyed in California

California officials are destroying hundreds of illegal marijuana farms worth billions of dollars to drug cartels every year. With a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency grant and a strict state licensing requirement, police have been raiding farms up and down the…

When Medical Cannabis Makes Sense in California

By Griffen Thorne, Attorney at Harris Bricken I wrote a post last year entitled, “Does Medical Licensing Make Sense in Recreational Jurisdictions?” The idea – which we’ve seen borne out countless times – is that in jurisdictions that allow recreational…

Tax cuts leave California pot businesses wanting much more

Industry leaders say legal operations still face uphill battle against underground market. LOS ANGELES — California’s licensed cannabis businesses are getting a tax cut — and they are disappointed about it. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom raised hopes in the cannabis…

California Opens Hemp Registrations

July 6, 2022
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By Griffen Thorne, Attorney @ Harris Bricken For years, California has been a very bad state for the hemp industry. That started to change last year with the passage of AB-45, a bill intended to regulate CBD manufacturing and sales.…

Darnell Smith is Courting Cocktail Culture with MXXN

A new age of infused-beverages has arrived courtesy of advances in emulsion technologies that have unleashed the imaginations of beverage-makers far and wide. Most of the sub-categories in the sector already teem with brands with more arriving every day, and…

Cannabis tax cuts and pot industry reform are coming to California

Tax cuts and other reforms are coming to the California cannabis industry as authorities seek to revamp a system that businesses, growers and others say has been stymied by over-regulation. A bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last week cuts…

California may require labels on pot products to warn of mental health risks

Liz Kirkaldie's grandson was in the top of his class in high school and a talented jazz bassist when he started smoking pot. The more serious he got about music, the more serious he got about pot. And the more…

‘Cannabis king’ sentenced to 22 months in prison for bribing San Luis Obispo politician

Helios Dayspring had one goal: build a cannabis empire that, in his words, would be “too big to fail.” But as he acquired hundreds of acres of land to grow the product and opened storefronts along California’s Central Coast to…

California medical marijuana patients can get free weed. Here’s how

Just before noon on a sunny California Friday, a very pregnant-looking Charlene Modeste steps out of her L.A. home to meet a driver for the weed delivery service Eaze who hands off a bag containing more than $1,000 worth of…

California Cannabis Workers: Independent Contractor Exceptions Part II

by Griffin Thorne, Attorney at Harris Bricken California deems nearly all kinds of workers employees. There are, however, some important circumstances where workers may be classified as contractors. In my first post of this series, “Classifying California Cannabis Workers,” I…

Op-Ed: Why legal weed is losing the war to illegal weed

The market for legal weed is growing. But in California, as elsewhere, it faces serious challenges. We’re not talking about droughts, climate change or supply chain shortages. The biggest challenge is competition from illegal weed. Our best estimate is that…

Cannabis licensing efforts tied to Anaheim corruption investigation

Democratic leader Melahat Rafiei, also a consultant to cannabis companies, confirms she's cooperated with FBI for three years. The lure of potential profits, and the fertile ground for corruption, that surround the legal cannabis industry helped unravel a series of…

Classifying California Cannabis Workers

By Griffen Thorne, Attorney at Harris Bricken California is one of the trickiest states in the U.S. for employers, and especially for cannabis employers. The numerous, byzantine requirements here simply don’t exist in many other states. Classifying California cannabis workers…

California Will Regulate CBD

by Griffen Thorne, Attorney at Harris Bricken For many years, we’ve written about California’s truly bizarre animus towards hemp-derived CBD. Many efforts to regulate CBD failed. Last year, the state finally managed to pass AB-45 but the California Department of…

Social Equity in California Cannabis Needs to be more than a Political Photo-opportunity

By Richard P. Ormond Starting in the 1930s when the modern era of drug enforcement laws was launched, communities of color were disproportionally caught in the crosshairs of the criminal-justice system in the United States, with prison populations looking nothing…

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