New Marijuana Regulations in Cali for Growers, Hash Extract Artists, Edible Makers, Transporters & Distributors from 420 Law Office Stewart Richlin & his thoughts on the New Marijuana Regulations. (Inside Tips)
Governor Brown sign the new mmj regulations into law today. http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-go... It's understandable some people are bitching about the regulations, they've never operated in a fully legal framework before. These regulations basically sets the state up for full legalization if it comes to pass in 2016 by addressing the concerns the federal government outlined for states with legal marijuana sales. This is what we should come to expect from a legal marijuana market. If we get enough state to pass legalization in 2016, which it looks very likely we will, prohibition will be hanging on the ropes for the final count.
They better be careful with their licencing and taxation....or the grey market will just go black again.
They've already lost, they just don't know it yet. The average recreational smoker won't be able to endure having their weed go up three (or more) times the gram cost of weed once the recreational vendors pass their insane tax licensing fees to their customers in 2016. No current $/8-$15 smoker is going to tolerate $/22+ a gram for their daily stashes. Any taxpayer has to have a good job to compete with all the new weed pricing changes but Governor Brown (and Governor Inslee) forgot to create the millions of jobs the majority of committed weed recreational smokers need to stay in retail stores. Medical users are already on a tight budget and will just go to delivery indie black market vendors or grow for themselves. Recreational shop owners bailed on MMJ patients to get all the "green rush" profits for themselves. Now they can pay the IRS-all by themselves. Many dispensaries will make it to Summer but home grows will win out due to financial necessity.
The California politicians and rule-makers have had since 1996 to have a "fully legal frameworks for MMj AND recreational" but chose to kiss big dispensary ass instead of enabling mom and pop shops. No expensive " big legal farms and markets" are necessary for folks with small home grows. They took 20 years to put weed in the hands of big business and they won. They just better not hope that the patients they screwed statewide to get close to big recreational sellers will come back to their high priced (and massed produced largely non-organic) unnecessary brands of weed.