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California Cannabis Credit Crunch

May 30, 2023
Hilary Bricken
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By Hilary Bricken, Principal, Harris Bricken The California cannabis market is truly struggling all the way around. Cannabis businesses and those who work with them closely face mounting financial pressure. Because of the credit crunch in California cannabis, the state…

California “Burner Licenses” Continue to Plague

By Hilary Bricken, Principal at Harris Bricken California has no shortage of issues with its legalized cannabis marketplace. For a couple of years now, an open secret in California (and a cautionary tale for other states) is the concept of…

A new funding source in the illicit cannabis industry: China

Multiple states in the West are seeing an increase in Chinese workers and funding at unlicensed cultivation operations. A few days before Christmas, a joint law enforcement task force found nearly 9,000 pounds of cannabis worth almost $15 million during…

Superstate Operator: Glass House Brands’ Graham Farrar on the Supremacy of California Cannabis

March 20, 2023
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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It has been one year since Long Beach, California-based Glass House Brands (NEO:GLAS.A.U) (NEO:GLAS.WT.U) (OTCQX:GLASF) (OTCQX:GHBWF) announced the start of cultivation at the 5.5 million square-foot facility located in the Santa Barbara County city of Carpenteria that it had bought…

Marijuana Enforcement Leader Reveals Who Runs Illegal Grow Operations In Southern California

About 85% of illegal weed farmers are Chinese or Mexican nationals in San Bernardino County, task force sergeant says Chinese and Mexican nationals operate almost all illegal marijuana growing operations in the United States' largest county, the leader of a…

California Inches Towards Interstate Cannabis Agreements

By Hilary Bricken, Principal at Harris Bricken It’s no secret that state cannabis markets across the nation are suffering badly. Because of I.R.C. 280E, lack of access to financial institutions, massive operational expenses, plunging prices, and just gluts of production,…

Dying for your high: The untold exploitation and misery in America’s weed industry

December 23, 2022
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Sareth Sin, 67, died upright, seated in a plastic chair, on Christmas Day. He was asphyxiated by fumes from the generator he ran to chase the desert chill out of a cannabis greenhouse on the eastern edge of Los Angeles…

California Large Licensing Gets Really Small

By Griffen Thorne, Attorney at Harris Bricken California law required the state Department of Cannabis Control to begin accepting large license applications on January 1, 2023. Earlier this year, DCC published proposed large licensing regulations (which I described here). As…

Presidential Celebrates Ten Year Anniversary with Multistate Expansion

December 1, 2022
Tom Hymes
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Presidential Cannabis Company is as deeply rooted as any cannabis brand in California, especially in the southern half of the state, where its distinctively packaged high-end infused prerolls have held a place on store shelves since the 215 days, when…

California Cannabis: Welcoming a Shift Away from Local Control

November 17, 2022
Hilary Bricken
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By Hilary Bricken, Principal at Harris Bricken It’s no secret that, among California’s many cannabis industry issues, local control continues to stymie the success of the Golden State’s industry. In this, California is not alone– most cannabis is all local.…

Nabis Plans to Deliver More Market Share and More Markets

November 1, 2022
Tom Hymes
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Founded by Vince C. Ning and Jun S. Lee, California wholesale cannabis delivery platform Nabis has seen steady growth since it first hit the ground driving in 2018 with a model that over time has added helpful services such as…

California Expands Medical Cannabis Delivery

September 28, 2022
Hilary Bricken
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By Hilary Bricken, Principal at Harris Bricken It’s no secret that California cannabis is suffering for a variety of reasons, not least of which is the stranglehold on access caused by local control. Local control is never going away in…

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The reality of legal weed in California: Huge illegal grows, violence, worker exploitation and deaths

September 9, 2022
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At sunset from atop Haystack Butte, the desert floor below shimmers with a thousand lights. Illegal cannabis farms. At this hour and distance, serene hues cloak the rugged enclave of Mount Shasta Vista, a tense collective of seasonal camps guarded…

Are All “Cannabis Appellations” Malarkey?

To differentiate superior product, command higher prices, and create regional unity, California launched a Marijuana “appellation of origin” program validating sun-grown Cannabis’ geographical origin and production methods with a protective designation. While aspiring to mirror its wine industry counterparts’ success and…

The casualties of California legalizing pot: Growers who went legal

A blue state’s taxes and regulation have boosted corporate producers, leading to the near-death of the small cannabis farmer PETROLIA, Calif. — The Wild Cat Road skips along a ridge line, a narrow half-paved, half washed-out track that once carried…