Inside California’s pot legalization failures: Corporate influence, ignored warnings September 22, 2022 AggregatedNews California 0 Comments SACRAMENTO — Architects of the effort to legalize pot in California made big promises to voters. But six years later, California’s legal weed industry is in disarray with flawed policies, legal loopholes and stiff regulations hampering longtime growers and sellers. Despite expectations… Read More→
Feds Try To Undermine California’s Legal Marijuana Industry Via Selective Prosecution Of Advertising Companies April 27, 2020 AggregatedNews Op-Ed 0 Comments Although California’s Proposition 64, the “Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act” which legalized the sale of recreational marijuana, won by an overwhelming victory four years ago (Yes 7,979,041 = 57.13% vs No 5,987,020 = 42.87%) it was… Read More→
Legal marijuana use still costs people jobs. A new California bill takes on the issue February 19, 2020 AggregatedNews California 0 Comments California voters legalized pot in 2016. But for many seeking jobs in state government, cannabis use has become an obstacle to getting hired. Now, a spike in the number of job applicants disqualified by state agencies after failing tests for… Read More→
Tribes at odds with Calif. officials over the right to sell marijuana March 25, 2019 AggregatedNews California 0 Comments The legalization of recreational marijuana in California left Native Americans out in the cold. Proposition 64, which voters approved in 2016, lets local governments decide whether to allow cannabis dispensaries to operate within their jurisdictions. But it made no provisions… Read More→
California Measure Would Expunge Many Marijuana-Related Crimes August 24, 2018 AggregatedNews California 0 Comments California lawmakers have approved a measure requiring prosecutors to expunge convictions or reduce sentences for many marijuana-related convictions dating back decades. The bill is now awaiting a signature from Gov. Jerry Brown, according to the Associated Press. The bill, passed by… Read More→
Marijuana is not really legal in California if residents don’t have a reasonable way to buy it August 15, 2018 AggregatedNews California, Opinions 0 Comments California law allows adults to buy marijuana. It allows licensed businesses to deliver marijuana to customers, and it says specifically that cities and counties cannot prevent delivery services from traveling on public roads. Yet even though cities can’t stop deliveries… Read More→
California Finally Releases Marijuana Rules For Jan 1 November 17, 2017 AggregatedNews California 0 Comments Cannabis businesses in California can’t be within 600 feet of schools. Shops have to close by 10 p.m., and they need 24-hour video surveillance. Those regulations are in the new rule book for California’s cannabis industry, which state regulators released… Read More→
California Is on Its Way to Becoming a Marijuana ‘Sanctuary State’ June 2, 2017 AggregatedNews California 0 Comments 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… Read More→
California’s Prop 64 Allows Some Marijuana Convicts to Wipe Their Record Clean May 22, 2017 AggregatedNews California 0 Comments 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… Read More→
California cannabis group of stakeholders working on banking solutions April 29, 2017 Fiona Ma California, Policy & Legal 3 Comments 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… Read More→
California Studies How Marijuana Farming Effects State’s Energy April 24, 2017 AggregatedNews California 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Nine Ways the Federal Government Restricts Legal Marijuana States February 7, 2017 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments Even as he celebrated the end of a big year for his cannabis-focused company, Terra Tech, Derek Peterson was scrambling to cope with some bad news. On the one hand, in 2016, his Newport Beach business raised close to $20… Read More→
Ahead of Vote, San Jose Temporarily Bans Any Sale of Marijuana November 3, 2016 AggregatedNews California 0 Comments Worried that California might legalize recreational marijuana, the state’s third-largest city by population, San Jose, voted to ban pot sales ahead of Election Day. San Jose isn’t alone in scrambling to block the possible effects of Proposition 64, which would… Read More→
California Medical Cannabis Related Legislation Update October 31, 2016 Cassia Furman California 0 Comments In 2015, nearly 20 years after California voters approved the groundbreaking Proposition 215 ballot measure known as the California Compassionate Use Act, the California legislature undertook the task of regulating a now robust and diffusive medical cannabis market at the… Read More→
An Inside Look at Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Today October 19, 2016 AggregatedNews Retail 0 Comments Brightly lit rooms, enticing menus and a smiling staff greet customers from the entrance of the Green Door. What initially might seem like a favorite coffee bar is actually a San Francisco dispensary. The Green Door in San Francisco is… Read More→