BREAKING NEWS: California Agencies Issue Final Cannabis Regulations. Finally.
CaliforniaMedical MarijuanaRecreational MarijuanaUncategorized January 17, 2019
Yesterday afternoon, on January 16, 2019, the California Office of Administrative Law (“OAL) finally approved the sets of final regulations under it had been reviewing after submissions from the California Department of Public Health (“CDPH”) which regulates cannabis manufacturers, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (“CDFA”) which regulates cultivators, and the Bureau of Cannabis Control (“BCC”)…
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New Cannabis Regulations Approved by the Office of Administrative Law
CaliforniaMarijuana Industry News January 17, 2019 0
Committee Blog: California Permanent Regs Roundup
CaliforniaMarijuana Laws, Regulations, & PoliticsUncategorized January 15, 2019 0
The Even More Perplexing State of Hemp CBD in California
CaliforniaHempUncategorized January 14, 2019
A few months ago, I wrote a blog post about the precarious state of industrial-hemp derived CBD in California. Since then, as everyone knows, President Trump signed the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (or “Farm Bill”). A lot of people think that in the wake of the Farm Bill, hemp-derived CBD (“Hemp CBD”) is now…
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California collecting far less than expected in marijuana taxes
CaliforniaMarijuana Industry News January 11, 2019 0
The Business of Marijuana in Northern California: Join Us January 17 and 18 in San Francisco!
CaliforniaUncategorized January 8, 2019
On Thursday and Friday of next week, January 17 & 18, our own Daniel Dersham and Julie Hamill will present at a two-day continuing legal education (CLE) event in San Francisco called The Business of Marijuana in Northern California, to discuss cannabis real estate and land use issues in California. The roster of speakers lined…
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Member Blog: News Flash – Quirky Cannabis Regulations Unchecked
CaliforniaMarijuana Laws, Regulations, & PoliticsUncategorized January 7, 2019 0
We’ve previously written about some of the pitfalls for landlords to avoid when leasing to commercial cannabis tenants in California. We’ve also recently discussed some relevant issues for landlords created by the state’s near-final regulations. And we’ve also looked at some of the biggest uncertainties remaining after the state issued those regulations. Now that we…
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California Cannabis Red Tape Alert: New BCC “Change of Ownership” Rules
CaliforniaMedical MarijuanaRecreational MarijuanaUncategorized January 7, 2019
Our California cannabis lawyers are seeing a major spike in mergers and acquisitions (M & A), and it’s time to discuss what’s on the horizon for changes of ownership for some California cannabis businesses. In every cannabis state, M & A is no breeze because the regulators almost always require pre-approval of the transaction or…
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The California Cannabis Packaging and Labeling Mess Will Soon Begin
CaliforniaMedical MarijuanaRecreational MarijuanaUncategorized January 4, 2019
In early December, California’s cannabis regulators released their proposed final regulations. If the regulations aren’t changed, it’s expected that they will take effect at some point this month, or shortly after. These regulations have some pretty important changes from the current readopted emergency regulations. One of the notable areas of change is the packaging and…
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