Indopedia All Things Marijuana
Cannabis regulations are coming to California. When voters passed Proposition 64 last November to legalize adult recreational use they also agreed to a set of rules that varied from the state’s existing medical marijuana laws.
Both industries, recreational and medical, will have new sets of rules and regulations by January 1st, 2018. Currently, however, recreational and medical laws are glaringly different and such issues as distribution channels, farm sizes, and the number of licenses available to cannabusiness owners have been causing trouble for cannabis users, cultivators and lawmakers alike.
Enter Governor Jerry Brown, whose office recently submitted a trailing bill to this year’s budget that would clarify and coordinate the regulations surrounding the two industries.
Brown’s bill would keep the medical legislation’s limits on medium sized farms, but side with the Prop. 64 language allowing an unlimited number of licenses available to business owners and the ability for cultivators to deal directly with retail proprietors, instead of going through an independent distribution company.
For industry insiders and state regulators alike, the new bill is a…
