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Inside California’s pot legalization failures: Corporate influence, ignored warnings

September 22, 2022
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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…

Feds Try To Undermine California’s Legal Marijuana Industry Via Selective Prosecution Of Advertising Companies

April 27, 2020
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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…

Legal marijuana use still costs people jobs. A new California bill takes on the issue

February 19, 2020
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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…

Tribes at odds with Calif. officials over the right to sell marijuana

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…

California Measure Would Expunge Many Marijuana-Related Crimes

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…

Marijuana is not really legal in California if residents don’t have a reasonable way to buy it

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…

California Finally Releases Marijuana Rules For Jan 1

November 17, 2017
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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Nine Ways the Federal Government Restricts Legal Marijuana States

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…

Ahead of Vote, San Jose Temporarily Bans Any Sale of Marijuana

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…

California Medical Cannabis Related Legislation Update

October 31, 2016
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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…

An Inside Look at Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Today

October 19, 2016
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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…

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