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Governor Newsom Vetoes “Cannabis Famers Market” Bill, But Holds Out Hope for Home Growers

By Jeffrey C. O’Brien, Husch Blackwell LLP California Governor Gavin Newsom recently vetoed a proposal from the Assembly which would have created a “small producer event sales license”, which would have allowed cannabis producers to sell their products at state…

Muha Meds Marries Opportunity and Efficiency

October 9, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Muha Meds is a Los Angeles-based cannabis MSO that was started in 2015 as a “traditional” market delivery service by entrepreneur brothers Ali and Muhammad Garawi, who went legal a few years later with a collection of vape cartridges. Building…

California Will Allow Amsterdam-Like Cannabis Cafes

Marijuana businesses will be allowed to serve food and have live music performances as a way to attract more customers. Marijuana dispensaries in California will be allowed to sell food and nonalcoholic beverages, as well as host live events on…

Blinded by the Bud: A Craft Conversation with Brighterside Farms

September 26, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Cultivation, New Jersey, News & Insights, Spotlight
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The people behind New Jersey cultivator Brighterside Farms may be relatively new to the state, but they are anything but new to cannabis. Their cultivating roots extend back to 2006 and way past that as well, first back east during…

California legal weed industry in tumult after Times pesticide investigation

September 18, 2024
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A scandal over California’s failure to keep pesticides out of legal cannabis is causing turmoil throughout the industry, with a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit, the departure of a top cannabis official, the state hiring a private investigator, and a race in…

More Bad News for Intoxicating Hemp (California, Missouri, New Jersey)

September 16, 2024
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Hemp Business Executive, Hemp Policy & Legal
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By Griffen Thorne, Attorney at Harris Sliwoski Last week, I wrote a post entitled “Loper Comes For the DEA. Will it Matter Though?” In that post, I discussed a brand new federal Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals case that concluded that…

Fighting Dirty Weed Through OCal Cannabis Certification

September 11, 2024
Tom Hymes
News & Insights, Spotlight, Standards and Certification
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The introduction of regulated medical and adult-use cannabis markets was supposed to guarantee that legal weed was clean weed, but somewhere along the line that message got reinterpreted as legal weed is tested weed, which is supposed to mean the…

Gavin Newsom Wants California To Have More Restrictive Drug Laws Than Florida

September 10, 2024
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Hemp Business Executive, Hemp Industry News
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Newsom's "emergency" rules banning all THC in hemp products doesn't square with his insistence that his state provides more freedom than Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis. Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed strict new rules on intoxicating substances derived…

California’s legal weed system is broken, while Michigan’s is thriving. What gives?

In this small town in the rural palm of Michigan’s mitt-shaped peninsula, a 250,000-square-foot warehouse produces 300,000 cannabis vape cartridges per month. Wide doors lead off long hallways into brightly lighted grow rooms with rows of fragrant weed plants at…

Alien Labs Invades New Markets With Quality Cannabis

August 6, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Cultivation, Multiple State Brands, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Founded in 2014 on skills honed long before legalization, Redding, California-based Alien Labs has over the years built a rock-solid reputation for top-shelf flower (and other products) that it is now exporting to other states as part of a growth…

A Guide to Leasing to California Cannabis Tenants

August 5, 2024
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Banking, Finance & Real Estate, California
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By Griffen Thorne, Attorney at Harris Sliwoski Leasing commercial real estate to a cannabis business in California can be a great opportunity for the right lessor, but it comes with significant risks. It’s important for lessors to understand these risks…

California dethroned as Michigan now sells more legal weed

California politicians and pot advocates have long bragged that the state is home to the largest legal cannabis market in the world. Gov. Gavin Newsom made the claim twice in the past two months alone. But newly reported data is calling the Golden State’s weed dominance…

Protecting Off-Duty Cannabis Use in California: What Employers Should Know

June 5, 2024
Keya Denner
California, District of Columbia, employment law
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By Keya Denner On January 1, California joined several other states in protecting employees who lawfully use recreational cannabis outside of the workplace. AB 2188 makes it unlawful for an employer to discriminate against an applicant or an employee for…

California Awards $12 Million In Local Cannabis Equity Grants To Repair Drug War Harms

By Aaron Kelley, Attorney at Harris Sliwoski California’s path to cannabis social equity: from arrests to advocacy Data from the California Department of Justice reveals that nearly half a million individuals were arrested on cannabis charges in the state between 2006 and…

California Gives Up on the Illegal Cannabis Market: More of the Same

By Griffen Thorne, Attorney at Harris Sliwoski Last week, California’s Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) released illegal market enforcement data for quarter 1 of 2024. It’s become a new tradition of mine to compare this quarterly data and see whether the state…

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