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California’s legal weed industry can’t compete with illicit market

Local government opposition, high taxes and competition from unlicensed businesses are complicating the state's push to build a thriving legal market. LOS ANGELES — California’s cannabis market is booming nearly five years after voters legalized recreational weed. But there’s a…

Is Your Cannabis Billboard DCC Compliant in California?

By Tiffiny Fox Every cannabis-related enterprise working to build a legitimate business in California must operate within the regulations established by the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC). This includes the recent restrictions placed on billboard advertising by the Bureau of…

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Paperwork is holding up California’s marijuana industry. Will $100 million fix it?

As thousands of provisional marijuana license holders in California struggle to secure a full annual license, the state is kicking in $100 million to help cities and counties to address the backlog. California voters in 2016 voted to legalize the…

California’s Adopted Emergency Cannabis Regulations: What Made the Cut

By Hilary Bricken, Principle, Harris Bricken We wrote a couple of times about the Department of Cannabis Control’s (DCC) proposed emergency regulations. See here and here. Under those regulations, some interesting changes were proposed around the definitions of owners and…

L.A. County D.A. to dismiss 60,000 past marijuana convictions

September 28, 2021
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The nation’s largest prosecutor’s office is moving to dismiss roughly 60,000 marijuana convictions, the latest step to undo what some reform advocates consider the damage caused by narcotics enforcement carried out before Californians voted to legalize marijuana, Los Angeles County…

California Cannabis Owners and FIHs Get New Treatment Under DCC Emergency Cannabis Regulations

September 22, 2021
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By Hilary Bricken, Principle, Harris Bricken I’ve preached before on the blog about how often our firm gets pulled into M&A deals where the parties have screwed up reporting the transaction to cannabis regulators on both the state and local…

Industrial Hemp Products, Including CBD, are Finally Legit in California

September 16, 2021
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By Hilary Bricken, Principle at Harris Bricken Many people ignore or just don’t want to believe the fact that, until recently, California was a bit of a villain when it comes to the manufacture, distribution, and sale of industrial hemp…

California Cannabis Claims: Conversion

by Jihee Ahn, Attorney at Harris Bricken Last year, we wrote a mini-series on the five most common causes of action we were seeing in the evolving world of cannabis litigation. Given that we’re seeing some other trends (I last…

California high court: Inmates can’t have cannabis in prison

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Prison inmates can’t legally possess marijuana under California’s law allowing recreational pot, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday in overturning a lower court that found prisoners could have the drug as long as they didn’t consume it.…

‘One giant French kiss wrapped in money’: Cannabis magnate admits bribing San Luis Obispo County supervisor

A high-profile figure in the Central Coast’s marijuana industry has agreed to plead guilty to bribing a San Luis Obispo County supervisor, the first charges to be made public in what a spokesman for the federal prosecutor’s office in Los…

Illegal cannabis growers are stealing water amid California’s drought, officials say

California’s deepening drought is creating another big problem for authorities: water theft. Water thieves, many of them illegal marijuana growers, are tapping into fire hydrants and drilling unauthorized water wells, according to officials, threatening the water supply for residents. In…

The Minefield of California Cannabis Labels

by Griffen Thorne, Attorney @ Harris Bricken Over the last few years, I’ve been asked to review dozens and dozens of mockup cannabis labeling material to see whether they comply with California’s complex cannabis labeling requirements. I can’t recall a…

Illegal pot invades California’s deserts, bringing violence, fear, ecological destruction

Before his corpse was dumped in a shallow grave 50 miles north of Los Angeles, Mauricio Ismael Gonzalez-Ramirez was held prisoner at one of the hundreds of black-market pot farms that have exploded across California’s high desert in the last…

15,000 plants seized in raid on illegal California pot farm

SAN DIEGO — Authorities raided an illegal marijuana farm in northern San Diego County on Friday, seizing 15,000 plants and 9 1/2 pounds of pot products with an estimated street value of more than $7.5 million, authorities said. Detectives also…

California offers $100 million to rescue its struggling legal marijuana industry

The California Legislature on Monday approved a $100-million plan to bolster California’s legal marijuana industry, which continues to struggle to compete with the large illicit pot market nearly five years after voters approved sales for recreational use. Los Angeles will…