The Law Offices of Omar Figueroa is a boutique California law firm focusing on cannabis law. We fight for justice and human rights, and advocate passionately for our clients every step of the way.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
On Friday May 5, the Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation (a.k.a. the Bureau of Marijuana Control) released the proposed regulations for medical cannabis laboratory testing facilities in California, beginning a 45-day public comment period. “These proposed testing laboratories regulations for medical cannabis follow the same process as those regulations announced […]
On Friday, April 28, 2016, the State of California released proposed medical cannabis regulations through three regulatory agencies: the Bureau of Marijuana Control (formerly the Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation) within the Department of Consumer Affairs, the Office of Manufactured Cannabis Safety within the Department of Public Health, and the […]