As we have discussed in various other posts on this blog, California has been taking major steps to regulate the medical marijuana, and now recreational cannabis industry, at a state level. Since medical marijuana was first legalized back in 1996, there was little regulation at the state level. All of…
There is more cannabis sold in California that any other state. This is true even when comparing California’s medical marijuana industry with Colorado’s recreational marijuana industry. While voters in California did legalize recreational use marijuana through the passage of Proposition 64 in November 2016, it will not be legal to…
The contrast between the stock of marijuana in the U.S. and Canada couldn’t be more stark. CNN Money reported that a real estate investment trust that plans to buy buildings to lease to medical marijuana growers went public on Wall Street – and the response was less-than-encouraging. On the NYSE,…
Riverside marijuana lawyers applaud the recent ruling by a superior court judge allowing a Murrieta marijuana dispensary to re-open its doors – just not in the same place where it used to be. As we understand it, the Cooperative Medical Group on Madison Avenue had been forced to close, after…
Medical marijuana in California and 15 other states and the District of Columbia has been legalized. In more than half of these areas, government officials have been launching new medical laws that could lands these people involved in the industry with criminal charges and stiff fines. Back in 1996, California…
A Riverside Superior Court Judge recently signed an order at the request of the city of Murrieta to ban a medical marijuana collective, but the wording was ambiguous and will allow the business to remain open, the club’s medical marijuana attorney says. Riverside medical marijuana collectives have come under fire,…
More bad news out of Riverside. As we previously reported on our Marijuana Lawyer Blog, a case out of Riverside will go to the California Supreme Court to determine if cities and counties can legally ban medical marijuana dispensaries. Now, as if that wasn’t enough of an assault on the…
As our Los Angeles medical marijuana lawyers have said from the beginning, the recent explosion of interest by federal prosecutors in California’s medical marijuana industry has to be a political issue. Most medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles are operating legitimately and following the law. And despite the perception that…
The hits just keep coming for hard-working medical marijuana dispensaries in California, especially those in Riverside County where authorities have announced they are going to try to shut them down, The Desert Sun is reporting. Ever since California voters agreed to legalize marijuana some 15 years ago, it has been…
A recent article out of Washington reports that California’s marijuana growers have shifted plots from national forests to farmland, according to the Fresno County sheriff, who testified to the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. Admittedly, medical marijuana in California is a difficult industry because while many small businesses sell…