Los Angeles charges 515 people with running illegal marijuana businesses as part of black market crackdown
CaliforniaUncategorized September 10, 2018
Prosecutors in Los Angeles have charged 515 people for helping to run 105 illegal marijuana operations, the City Attorney’s office said Friday. The sweep is part of an effort to level the financial playing field for licensed cannabis businesses, which have suffered by competing with black market operators who... Read more
Elon Musk’s decision to use cannabis on the air shows CEO dazed and confused by tone
CaliforniaUncategorized September 10, 2018
Dude, what are you, high? There was a time when Elon Musk’s live-streamed puff of marijuana would have only enhanced the image of an iconoclastic business magnate who can’t be bothered by social conventions in his quest to change the world. But an ill-advised tweet last month by the... Read more
Martinez sets plan in motion to allow marijuana businesses
CaliforniaUncategorized September 6, 2018
MARTINEZ —- A plan to manage commercial, retail and other marijuana-related business ventures should be prepared as early as mid-November, the Martinez City Council decided Wednesday night. In addition to commercial marijuana businesses, the council indicated it would put out the welcome mat for a couple of retail operators,... Read more
California Cannabis Development Agreements: Part One
CaliforniaReal EstateUncategorized September 6, 2018
California municipalities are missing the mark on development agreements. Development agreements have become a popular tool for California municipalities regulating commercial cannabis activities. We’ve talked a bit about development agreements in the cannabis context here. In a nutshell, a development agreement is a contract between a municipality and developer that... Read more
Los Angeles Cannabis: Don’t Forget Your Social Equity Business Agreements
CaliforniaMedical MarijuanaUncategorized September 1, 2018
Written agreement strongly recommended. Applicants who qualify for commercial cannabis licensure during Phase II of the City of L.A.’s cannabis licensing process only have until September 13 to get their applications into the Department of Cannabis Regulation (“DCR”). This phase of licensing is reserved for existing, non-retail, social equity... Read more
California Cannabis: State and Feds Team Up to Target Illegal Public Land Grows
CaliforniaRecreational MarijuanaUncategorized August 31, 2018
Home of fewer illegal grows. Federal enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act in states that have legalized cannabis has been a huge question mark for years, but especially so in California since the 2016 passage of Prop 64, which legalized medicinal and adult-use cannabis and laid the framework for... Read more
California, CDTFA and Proposed Cannabis Tax Regulations
CaliforniaRecreational MarijuanaUncategorized August 29, 2018
On July 20, 2018, the CDTFA released its discussion paper on proposed rulemaking regarding the administration of the cannabis cultivation and excise taxes. This blog post highlights the issues addressed in the proposed regulation. By way of background, on August of 2017 the CDTFA promulgated two emergency regulations. The... Read more
The mother of a Cathedral Catholic High School student was sentenced Friday to 11 years, eight months in state prison after admitting she had guided a teen to sell drugs to a network of other students. “It’s absolutely sickening to the court,” San Diego Superior Court Judge Timothy Walsh... Read more
Local seminar demonstrates widespread confusion over marijuana and employment law
CaliforniaUncategorized August 27, 2018
CHICO — The complexities and confusion around California’s new recreational cannabis regulations were obvious during Wednesday’s employers seminar, put on by the Chico Chamber of Commerce. With more than 90 registered, questions were varied, and anxiety sometimes obvious. The message from consultant Adrian Hoppes of Holden Law Group of... Read more
Medical marijuana users left in limbo as co-op struggles to regroup, reopen
CaliforniaMedical MarijuanaUncategorized August 27, 2018
SANTA CRUZ – Kaia was 11 months old when she began seizing. The episodes quickly became more frequent and severe, and doctor’s eventually diagnosed the infant with a rare genetic disorder called Dravet Syndrome. But despite a cocktail of prescribed medications, her condition continued to worsen, according to her... Read more
