With California’s legalization of recreational cannabis on Jan. 1, 2018, businesses have begun the exciting race to cash in on the expected $7 billion cannabis...
Up until now, before the term “commercial cannabis business” existed, all California cannabis businesses operated under the collective or statutory cooperative model. Now that California...
On November 8, voters stood united and passed Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act. The passing of Prop. 64 created two cannabis markets in California—the...
On September 29, 2016, just one year after signing the landmark bill called the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (“MCRSA”), Governor Jerry Brown took yet...
With the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MCRSA) came the exciting prospect of for-profit entities in the California medical cannabis industry. Specifically, MCRSA defines...
Hemp—we use hemp lotion, eat hemp cereal, wear clothing made out of hemp and use reusable hemp shopping bags. In fact, the U.S. is the world’s...
The federal government makes it nearly impossible for a cannabis business to enjoy normal banking privileges. In addition to the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), there’s also...
The green lights aren’t so green for Los Angeles’ medical cannabis businesses. We have a multi-billion-dollar medical cannabis industry in California—arguably the largest in the entire...
Currently, many cannabis-related crimes are charged as felonies. For example, while simple possession is an infraction, cultivation, possession with intent to sell, transportation and sales are...
The expansion of the cannabis industry in California has attracted dollar signs from Corporate America, causing a mad scramble of out-of-state investors, cannabis retailers and financially...