California

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.

California cannabis and hemp operator Kushy Punch was raided by state officials last week, who said the company was distributing cannabis on the unregulated marketplace. Kushy Punch’s CEO said the allegations are “completely false.”

A proposal in San Diego, California would ban cannabis billboards within 1,000 feet of schools, playgrounds, public parks, daycare centers, and youth centers.

The first cannabis cafe/restaurant in the U.S. where open consumption is allowed opened its doors today in West Hollywood.

Unregulated companies in California continue to dominate the majority of cannabis sales in the state, where illegal operators outnumber licensed companies 3-to-1.

Local officials in Pittsburg, California have approved a new plan to turn part of the former U.S. Army’s Camp Stoneman into a cannabis product manufacturing facility.

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Cannabis industry veteran Steve DeAngelo is a world-renowned cannabis activist, author, and cofounder of Harborside, Steep Hill Labs, the Arcview Group, and the NCIA.

A string of at least 10 robberies has struck dispensaries in Sacramento, California; it’s not clear yet whether or not the break-ins are linked.

Law enforcement in Sonoma County have shut down an illegal cannabis grow op containing more than 63,000 plants — it is the county’s largest cannabis bust, ever.

California’s Santa Rosa Junior College is revising its Environmental Horticulture program to include a focus on hemp agriculture and will offer hemp cultivation certificate degree programs starting next year.