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On Tuesday afternoon in Santa Ana, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) held the first in a series of public hearings that aim to collect constructive criticism about newly proposed medical marijuana regulations.
Back in 2015, the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act represented the first attempt to regulate California’s medical marijuana industry since its inception. The set of three bills called for the creation of a committee known as the Bureau of Marijuana Control that would be tasked with drafting the framework of what would become California’s new medical program. The committee was to develop a system of rules for cultivators, lab testing facilities, distributors, and other cannabis industry businesses ahead of January 1, 2018, when the new medical regulations are set to take effect.
The Bureau of Marijuana Control assigned the cultivation regulation duties to the CDFA, which must corral the roughly 50,000 cannabis growers in California into one regulated group.
The CDFA submitted their first draft of regulations, a 58-page proposal crafted over the course of the last year, on April 28. California residents have until June 12 to…
