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Paige St. John. September 18, 2024 at 6:00 AM. A scandal over California's failure to keep pesticides out of legal cannabis is causing turmoil throughout the industry, with a whistleblower ...
The dirty secret of California's legal weed. Paige St. John, Alex Halperin. June 14, 2024 at 6:00 AM. (Photo illustration by Jim Cooke / Photos via Getty Images) Aging yuppies in neon beachwear ...
California’s licensed retailers reported $4.4 billion in taxable weed sales in 2023. California has a 15% excise tax on weed sales, which is paid by consumers and remitted by retailers.
Proposition 19 – the California Marijuana Initiative – sought to legalize the use, possession, and cultivation of cannabis, but did not allow for commercial sales. [68] The initiative was spearheaded by the group Amorphia, which was founded in 1969 (by Blair Newman) and financed its activities through the sale of hemp rolling papers . [ 98 ]
Gonzales v. Raich (previously Ashcroft v.Raich), 545 U.S. 1 (2005), was a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that, under the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, Congress may criminalize the production and use of homegrown cannabis even if state law allows its use for medicinal purposes.
The Department of Cannabis Control (formerly the Bureau of Cannabis Control, originally established as Bureau of Marijuana Control under Proposition 64, [1] [2] formerly the Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation [3] [4]) is an agency of the State of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs, charged with regulating medical cannabis (MMJ) in accordance with state law pursuant to the ...
Los Angeles Times Staff. September 8, 2022 at 8:00 AM. California’s legalization of recreational cannabis in 2016 ushered in a multibillion-dollar industry estimated to be the largest legal weed ...
The Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) (Proposition 64) was a 2016 voter initiative to legalize cannabis in California. The full name is the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act. [2] The initiative passed with 57% voter approval and became law on November 9, 2016, [3][4] leading to recreational cannabis sales in California by ...