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May 20, 2019 By Andrew Kingsdale, Esq. As we recently detailed, Governor Newsom’s Trailer Bill would amend California’s cannabis statutes in significant ways, such as extending provisional licensing beyond January 1, 2020. The Trailer Bill also would extend another key deadline discussed in our last CEQA blog post: […]
by Omar Figueroa – May 13, 2019 On May 10, 2019, the State of California Department of Finance released the language of the Trailer Bill for this year’s Governor’s Budget. The Trailer Bill contains numerous provisions relating to Cannabis. This blog post will focus on the Trailer Bill’s provisions pertaining to […]
by Andrew Kingsdale January 28, 2019 If you have ever applied for a commercial cannabis local permit or state license in California, then you probably have heard of the California Environmental Quality Act (commonly known as “CEQA”) which is codified in the California Public Resources Code at § 21000 et […]
January 17, 2019 – Yesterday, the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) approved the final cannabis regulations that were published by California’s three cannabis licensing agencies (the Bureau of Cannabis Control, the Department of Food & Agriculture, and the Department of Public Health) last month. The final regulations are effective immediately, […]
January 7, 2019 By Omar Figueroa and Lauren Mendelsohn You’ve probably heard that California’s medical cannabis collective and cooperative defense will end soon, on January 9, 2019. But what does that actually mean? First, some history. In 1996, the voters of California passed a seminal initiative, Proposition 215, also known […]
by Omar Figueroa, December 10, 2018 On Friday, December 7, 2018, the Bureau of Cannabis Control (the “BCC”) — along with California’s two other cannabis licensing agencies, CalCannabis Cultivation Licensing within the California Department of Food & Agriculture (“CDFA”) and the Manufactured Cannabis Safety Branch within the Department of Public […]
On December 7, 2018, California’s three cannabis licensing agencies — the Bureau of Cannabis Control, the Department of Food & Agriculture, and the Department of Public Health — released their final versions of the regulations that will govern the cannabis industry, which have been submitted to the Office of Administrative […]
October 11, 2018 By Lauren Mendelsohn Cannabis operators in California who are currently operating under a temporary state license but who have not yet received their annual state license will get some reprieve next year thanks to Senate Bill 1459, which was recently signed into law by Governor Brown. SB […]
On Friday, July 13, 2018, California’s three cannabis licensing agencies (the Bureau of Cannabis Control, or “BCC”; the Department of Food and Agriculture, or “CDFA”; and the Department of Public Health, or “CDPH”) released their much-anticipated proposed permanent regulations for cannabis businesses pursuant to the Medicinal and Adult Use Cannabis […]
June 25, 2018 – The Emergency Cannabis Regulations adopted by the Bureau of Cannabis Control, the Department of Food and Agriculture, and the Department of Public Health included a “Transition Period” which carved out exceptions to certain regulations in order to make the transition to the regulated market less burdensome […]