With the state of California transitioning to legal recreational cannabis, it is a very exciting time for marijuana business entrepreneurs. Many in California have been in the marijuana industry for years on the medical side of things. California was the first state to legalize medical marijuana with the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, also known…
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Thirty states across the nation have joined the wave of cannabis legalization, either medical or recreational. California, the first state to legalize medical marijuana in 1996, has legalized recreational sales and use as of the beginning of the year thanks to the Adult Use of Marijuana Act. Our legal team at the Cannabis Law Group…
Continue reading ›The passing of Proposition 64 in 2016 legalizes recreational marijuana in California as of January 1, 2018. This will increase the opportunity for marijuana businesses to grow throughout the state. According to an article from Forbes, California cannabis business owners are projected to make $5.2 billion in revenue in 2018, with about $1 billion in…
Continue reading ›New changes to California cannabis regulations will dramatically impact marijuana delivery services. According to Forbes, the California Bureau of Cannabis Control has released a detailed set of regulations for the operation of cannabis businesses in preparation for the issuance of business licenses for the sale of recreational marijuana in January 2018. Amongst thousands of other…
Continue reading ›With the legalization of recreational marijuana, California faces the daunting task of implementing a regulatory scheme on a scale rarely seen before. There have been few – if any – periods in state history in which an entire industry must be legalized and regulated within a narrow window of fourteen months. And yet that is…
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