California

Whoopi & Maya, the women-focused medical cannabis company founded by Whoopi Goldberg and Om Edibles founder Maya Elisabeth, has shut down due to overly restrictive regulations and personal issues between the founders.

The City Council of Berkeley, California has approved on-site cannabis consumption at dispensaries; the changes also allow for up to seven cannabis delivery services in the city.

Eaze’s 2019 State of Cannabis Report saw an increase of Gen Z and Baby Boomer customers on the platform in addition to a decrease in vape sales, likely due to the vaping-associated pulmonary illness that emerged last year.

Some critics in Pasadena, California believe that local regulators violated their own rules when awarding six cannabis business licenses last year.

Stephen Rechif is the General Manager of Bloom Room, a popular cannabis dispensary located in downtown San Francisco.

Mara Gordon is the co-founder and CEO of Aunt Zelda’s, a California company renowned for a compassionate and scientific approach to the medical cannabis space.

Weedmaps has unlisted 2,700 unlicensed cannabis dispensaries since January 1; the company had received a cease-and-desist letter from California regulators last year.

California officials have updated the parameters of Proposition 65 to include cannabis smoke and THC as reproductive toxins that will require warning labels on all packaging.

The Josh D Brand competed in the Unlicensed Mixed Light Flower Category and finished with 1st, 5th, and 10th Place wins.

Non-partisan budget officials in California have suggested moving the state to a potency-based cannabis tax strategy, which would include getting rid of the weight-based cultivator tax.

An upcoming San Francisco dispensary has received the city’s first social equity cannabis business license; the shop is expected to open in the city’s Castro District before the end of the year.

Pasadena, California has won a lawsuit against its own city clerk after they approved a successful but unconstitutional ballot initiative that would have grandfathered in dispensaries who were operating before the city’s strict licensing rules took effect.

According to polling data from the major metro areas of Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco, there are more adults 18-and-older who have used cannabis recently than smoked cigarettes.

The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration has announced minor excise tax hikes on cannabis flower, leaf, and plants.

California cannabis and CBD product manufacturer Kushy Punch has had its state cannabis license revoked over the alleged use of an unlicensed facility.

Humboldt County regulators are considering a plan to offer tax incentives for small and efficient cannabis farms that can meet energy, infrastructure, and footprint standards.

A California study is offering $20 gift cards to cannabis consumers in exchange for anonymous information about how much cannabis they use, which will help in determining safe pesticide levels for cannabis crops.

California regulators suspended 394 cannabis business permits amid an ongoing crackdown on unlicensed operators; the suspensions include retailers, distributors, delivery services, and microbusinesses who were not seed-to-sale compliant.

California law enforcement officials say they have eradicated 953,000 cannabis plants from the state’s unregulated marketplace as part of the state’s Campaign Against Marijuana Planting Program.

UC San Diego researchers are set to receive $3 million from the state, which will be split between five different CBD research projects.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill allowing cannabis businesses to take normal business tax deductions alongside several other pieces of cannabis legislation. The governor, however, opted to veto legislation allowing for cannabis use in hospitals.

The latest medical cannabis law in California allows parents to administer medical cannabis treatments to their children on K-12 school campuses.