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These 2 States Are Sabotaging Their Respective Marijuana Industries

California Illinois Marijuana Industry News November 12, 2019 0

These billion-dollar markets are making it impossible for their cannabis industries to thrive. At this time last year, the cannabis industry looked as if it would be practically unstoppable. Canada had just become the first industrialized country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana, and Wall Street was throwing... Read more

A New California Law Will Affect Marijuana and Hemp Businesses Across the Nation

California Uncategorized November 10, 2019

We’ve been writing a lot lately about recent major changes in federal hemp laws that will likely affect every hemp company in the United States (see here, here, and here). While we’re on the topic of dramatic legal changes, it’s probably a good idea to talk about a California privacy law that’s about to take…

California Suspends Hundreds of Marijuana Supply Businesses

California Marijuana Industry News Recreational Marijuana November 8, 2019 0

California has suspended 394 marijuana business permits in a move that critics say will temporarily reduce the number of legal cannabis shops in the state. The suspension affecting about 5% of California’s legal cannabis supply chain comes after the businesses failed to complete mandatory training and credentialing, Marijuana Business... Read more

California Bureau of Cannabis Control Suspends Nearly 400 Licenses

California Featured Trending Stories November 8, 2019 0

Nearly 400 California cannabis companies had their licenses to operate suspended by regulators on Friday, pending the firms’ enrollment in a system designed to track the supply of marijuana products in the state. The action by the California Bureau of Cannabis Control has affected a total of 394 cannabis... Read more

Cannabis Topicals and Cosmetics: Join Us November 20th in Marina Del Rey!

California Hemp Uncategorized November 8, 2019

On November 20th, our own Alison Malsbury will lead a presentation on CBD & Cosmetics at the 2019 Emerging Issues Conference in Marina del Rey, California. Her presentation will focus on the contentious landscape of hemp and CBD topical products, which she has most recently written about here and here. As CBD continues to impact markets…

California Cannabis Businesses Pushing For Tougher Vaping Regulations

California Featured Trending Stories November 6, 2019 0

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An alliance of major legal marijuana businesses in California urged the state Monday to adopt tougher safety rules for ingredients and devices used in vaping and get tougher with illegal shops, amid an outbreak of a mysterious illness apparently linked to vaping. The recommendations from... Read more

California cannabis group wants tighter vaping-safety rules

California Marijuana Industry News November 5, 2019 0

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An alliance of major legal marijuana businesses in California urged the state Monday to adopt tougher safety rules for ingredients and devices used in vaping and get tougher with illegal shops, amid an outbreak of a mysterious illness apparently linked to vaping. The recommendations from... Read more

$1 Billion Worth of Cannabis Seized in California Hemp Field Bust

California Featured Hemp Trending Stories November 5, 2019 0

A Southern California sheriff’s department made a bust on what its owners had previously presented as a hemp field, uncovering 10 million marijuana plants with “an estimated value of over $1 billion.” On October 25, law enforcement descended on the fields whose growers had claimed to be growing non-psychoactive... Read more

Los Angeles Cannabis Retail Licensing May Get Derailed

California Uncategorized November 5, 2019

Getting a cannabis license in Los Angeles has been notoriously difficult—and may be about to get worse as news dropped last week that a Los Angeles City Council member is recommending that the most recent phase of licensing applications essentially be suspended. For some background on LA’s complicated licensing process, it has proceeded to date…

Risks of Disclosing Personal Information to California Cannabis Licensing Authorities

California Marijuana Industry News November 1, 2019 0

When registering with California licensing authorities and applying for cannabis licenses, certain information must be disclosed. Depending on the type of license applied for, some of that information, such as the cannabis license type, legal business name of the license holder, license holder contact information, premises location, and other... Read more