Colorado’s Cannabis Industry Growing Pains Provide Lessons Learned for California

Nearly 20 years after California jump-started a national dialogue on medicinal cannabis, the Legislature and the Governor have succeeded in negotiating a set of new bills to bring law and order to the Wild West economy of legal cannabis in California.

Should the governor sign his name to the package of bills the Legislature approved last month — AB 266, AB 243 and SB 643 — there will be profound changes in the industry; standardized licensing requirements and processes, tight restrictions on water and pesticide use, consumer safety standards, and public safety regulations that tightly control the distribution of cannabis from where it is grown to where it is sold.

It is imperative to get these regulations right and to implement them as soon as possible. Having worked with the authors who negotiated and secured passage of these soon-to-be laws — Senator Mike McGuire, and Assembly members Rob Bonta, Ken...

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