On Thursday June 15, the California Senate and Assembly passed two bills, SB-94 and AB-110, which are the state legislature’s versions of Governor Brown’s Trailer Bill. The Trailer Bill is the administration’s effort to reconcile the medical and adult use cannabis systems in California. Now that these bills have passed, […]
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WARNING: New Proposition 65 Notice Requirements Coming Soon! May 24, 2017 OVERVIEW California’s Proposition 65, a voter initiative passed in 1986, created the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act (Health & Safety Code § 25249.5 et seq.), which requires that the seller of a product that contains chemical(s) […]
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State Water Resources Control Board Releases Forms to Comply with CalCannabis Licensing If you are planning to obtain a California Department of Food and Agriculture Cannabis Cultivation (CalCannabis) License beginning on January 1, 2018, you must provide documentation of your water supply source with your cultivation license application. Certain water […]
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The proposed medical cannabis regulations released by California’s medical cannabis regulatory agencies — the Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation (BMCR), the Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), and the Department of Public Health (CDPH) — would require licensees to submit a new application any time there is a change […]
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The California Department of Public Health, Office of Manufactured Cannabis Safety, released proposed regulations on April 28, 2017 that would create a new license type, the “Type N” license, for “manufacturers that produce edible products or topical products using infusion processes, or other types of medical cannabis products other than extracts […]
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On Wednesday May 10, 2017, Attorney General Jefferson Sessions issued a memorandum to federal prosecutors outlining the Department of Justice’s new policy for charging and sentencing crimes. In the memo, which was made public on Friday, May 12, Sessions says that “prosecutors should charge and pursue the most […]
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The California Department of Public Health, Office of Manufactured Cannabis Safety, released proposed regulations on April 28, 2017 that would create a new license type, the “Type P” license, for “entities that only package or repackage medical cannabis products or label or relabel the cannabis product container.” Entities that package […]
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The California Department of Food and Agriculture, CalCannabis Cultivation Licensing, released proposed regulations on April 28, 2017 that would create a new license type, the “Processor” license, for “a cultivation site that conducts only trimming, drying, curing, grading or packaging of cannabis and nonmanufactured cannabis products.” While licensed processors may […]
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The proposed regulations from the California Department of Public Health, Office of Manufactured Cannabis Safety (OMCS), require that cannabis products have a label with a primary panel featuring the visually unstable Cannabis Product Symbol, which looks like it’s about to tip over: The draft regulations propose that the Cannabis Product Symbol must be “no smaller […]
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In 2015, the California legislature passed the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MCRSA), which set up a regulatory structure for medical cannabis within the state. In 2016, California voters approved Proposition 64, also known as the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), which quasi-legalized cannabis for adult use. AUMA […]
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