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by Omar Figueroa & Lauren Mendelsohn January 6, 2025 Last fall, Assembly Bill 1775, known colloquially as the “Cannabis Cafes Bill”, was signed into law. For more background, please read our previous blog post here. This Cannabis Cafe legislation took effect on January 1, 2025, and allows storefront retailers […]
by Omar Figueroa & Lauren Mendelsohn January 3, 2025 California has been at the forefront of psychedelic policy change for years. In 2019, the City of Oakland became “the first in the nation to decriminalize a wide range of psychedelics such as psilocybin mushrooms and ayahuasca.” Similarly, in early 2020, […]
by Omar Figueroa and Lauren Mendelsohn December 27, 2024 On December 23, 2024, a panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the lower court injunction which had put enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act on hold. We previously wrote about the injunction and FinCEN’s response in our […]
by Omar Figueroa and Lauren Mendelsohn December 23, 2024 On December 23, 2024, a panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the lower court injunction which had put enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act on hold. We previously wrote about the injunction and FinCEN’s response in our […]
by Omar Figueroa & Lauren Mendelsohn November 22, 2024 Senate Bill 1064 has been signed into law and, effective January 1, 2025, will amend the cannabis regulatory framework in California by adding a new type of statutory license, the Combined Activities License (CAL). The Combined Activities License (CAL) is […]
by Omar Figueroa & Lauren Mendelsohn November 1, 2024 Last October, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 1171, a bill which authorizes persons licensed by the California Department of Cannabis Control to engage in commercial cannabis activities to bring civil lawsuits against those engaging in commercial cannabis activity […]
by Omar Figueroa & Lauren Mendelsohn September 30, 2024 On Monday, September 30, 2024, the last day for the Governor to sign laws approved by the Legislature, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1775, known colloquially as the “Cannabis Cafe Bill.” This law, which is classified as […]
By Lauren Mendelsohn September 27, 2024 The Sonoma County Department of Agriculture/Weights & Measures has released the annual county crop report for the 2023 year, as well as an addendum containing the cannabis-related data. (We’ve previously discussed Sonoma County’s cannabis and other crop report data here and here.) The […]
by Omar Figueroa and Lauren Mendelsohn September 6, 2024 On Friday, September 6, 2024, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced they intend to adopt emergency regulations which would, among other things, prohibit manufactured hemp products from containing any detectable amount of total THC (which per the […]
by Omar Figueroa and Lauren Mendelsohn May 16, 2024 On May 16, 2024, the Biden Administration announced that the United States Department of Justice is taking the next step in the reclassification of cannabis from a Schedule I controlled substance to a Schedule III controlled substance — which would […]