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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 California medical marijuana regulations might reflect laws for booze 🌿California medical marijuana regulations might reflect laws for booze
Bill creating medical pot licensing advances
Approach would keep growers, distributors separate
Some say system works for alcohol
Pushing hard to at last regulate California’s free-for-all medical marijuana industry, state lawmakers are wrestling with how a tightly regulated cannabis market would work.
Increasingly, the answer looks to be a lot like the market for alcohol.
Long-standing alcohol laws rigidly separate producers, distributors and vendors. The decades-old “tied-house” formula was conceived largely as an antidote to the gangsterism of Prohibition, seeking to disrupt the liquor monopolies organized crime groups had established.
If Assembly Bill 266 passes – as looks more likely than with any previous attempt, given the support of law enforcement, cities and the large majority of Assembly members who voted it off the floor – a similar approach could apply to medical cannabis.
At stake is the future of a medical cannabis market estimated to be worth
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