As the California cannabis industry prepared for a rigorous, state-mandated testing regime that took effect on July 1, the laboratory director at Sequoia Analytical Labs in Sacramento allegedly went rogue. According to officials with Sequoia and California’s Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC), Sequoia’s lab director—unbeknownst to anyone else at the company—began falsifying reports for hundreds […]
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Right at the start, the city of Fontana, CA., might have doomed its own effort to enact a harsh ordinance governing the personal cultivation of cannabis. Just before the city council held its vote in January 2017, city manager Ken Hunt told council members, right out in public, “It is our intent . . . […]
Right at the start, the city of Fontana, CA., might have doomed its own effort to enact a harsh ordinance governing the personal cultivation of cannabis. Just before the city council held its vote in January 2017, city manager Ken Hunt told council members, right out in public, “It is our intent . . . […]
Voters across California have just six days left to weigh in on the cost of cannabis in their communities. “We’re not against cannabis taxes, but the should be comparable to taxes imposed on similar businesses.” David Goldman, president, San Francisco chapter, Brownie Mary Democratic Club Roughly 26 cities and counties have sent recreational marijuana tax […]
It’s often hard to envision massive, super fast changes in social attitudes. But they do happen. Who could have guessed in, say, 1999, same-sex marriage would just a few years later become legal in so many states, recognized by the federal government, and seen as no big deal by many conservatives? And who could have […]
When California voters passed Proposition 64 in 2016, legalizing cannabis for adult use, they didn’t merely end prohibition—they amended decades of bad policy. Criminalizing cannabis activity among responsible adults had proven to be a wrong that the citizens of California wanted made right. So Prop 64 stated that people with cannabis-related convictions can remove them […]
California consumers may get seamless legal access to cannabis statewide instead of a patchwork of local delivery bans, under rules set to be made final this fall. State officials on Friday presented a final draft of permanent rules governing the cannabis industry. The most controversial element: a rule continuing to allow legal cannabis deliveries in […]
