How California Can Overcome Its Cannabis Challenges
CaliforniaUncategorized December 14, 2018
What the 2018 Farm Bill Could Mean for CBD in California
CaliforniaHempUncategorized December 14, 2018
The federal 2018 Farm Bill is likely to become law in the very near future. If it does, it will redefine the hemp industry nationwide. We intend on writing more in the near future as to the specifics of the 2018 Farm Bill, but one interesting question is what effect it will have on California’s…
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California Cannabis Cultivation: CDFA Accepts All Changes to Proposed New Rules (and Then Some)
CaliforniaUncategorized December 13, 2018
This past Friday, California’s three agencies charged with writing and enforcing cannabis regulations—the Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC), the Department of Public Health (DPH), and the Department of Food and Agriculture (DFA)—made public their respective proposed final regulations, which are currently pending a 30-day review by the Office of Administrative Law before becoming law. Some…
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Breaking: California Bureau of Cannabis Control Publishes Proposed Final Regulations
CaliforniaMedical MarijuanaRecreational MarijuanaUncategorized December 7, 2018
Today, the Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC) published its Proposed Text of Regulations Submitted to Office of Administrative Law for review here. We are still in the process of reviewing everything, but there are enough ambiguities to cause us a good deal of concern, particularly with respect to IP licensing and contract manufacturing agreements. We…
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What Will the California Cannabis Industry Look Like in a Few Years (From the Legal Perspective)?
CaliforniaUncategorized December 5, 2018
Because California’s cannabis regulatory scheme is still in relative infancy, 2018 has looked the same for most operators: applying for annual licenses and waiting (and then continuing to wait) for them to issue or fighting to get temporary license applications submitted before they can no longer be issued. But what happens in two or three…
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Anti-Competitive Alert? Marijuana Slotting Fee and Pay-to-Stay Contracts in California
CaliforniaMedical MarijuanaRecreational MarijuanaUncategorized December 3, 2018
With the roll out of the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (“MAUCRSA“), our California cannabis attorneys see all kinds of agreements between and among licensees. From IP licensing to white labeling to distribution contracts, we’re beginning to see people emerge from the shadows and enter into written agreements with each other, which…
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A Non-Solicitation Agreement for your California Cannabis Employees? Be Careful!
CaliforniaUncategorized December 2, 2018
Legalized recreational cannabis businesses are still new in California. As a cannabis business owner, you may be thinking that a great way to protect your confidential information and prevent your employees from leaving would be a non-compete agreement. Think again. Not only are non-competition agreements unenforceable and prohibited in California, but they can come with…
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California Cannabis Landlords: More Regulatory Snags to Avoid
CaliforniaReal EstateUncategorized November 26, 2018
We’ve previously written about some of the pitfalls for landlords to avoid when leasing to commercial cannabis tenants in California. We’ve also written about how the state’s recently proposed modifications to its final cannabis regulations could affect licensees and the industry writ large (see here, here, and here). The comment period for those rule changes…
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California Cannabis: The Race is On for Temporary State Licenses
CaliforniaMedical MarijuanaRecreational MarijuanaUncategorized November 19, 2018
Unless you’ve been completely out of the loop, you already know that many, many people are in a race to submit their California state temporary cannabis license applications before December 31 of this year, which represents the “drop dead” date for cannabis temporary licenses. Add to that the regulatory curve balls thrown by the California…
Read morePasadena to charge $24,000 for marijuana permits; application window opens in January
CaliforniaUncategorized November 18, 2018
Want to open a recreational marijuana bushiness in Pasadena? The city is charging $24,000.
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