NEW LAWS, NEW HOPES, NEW WORRIES FOR CANNABIS FARMERS

An article earlier this week in the Sacramento Bee grapples with the new issues facing cannabis farmers now that state laws have finally been passed to regulate the marijuana market. While the current laws only deal with medical cannabis, it is no secret they are intended to be in place to help California transition out of the medical marijuana only model. (2016 is widely expected to be the year the Golden State legalizes recreational cannabis.)

Farmers in the article argue that the new laws will have to walk a fine line between regulations that protect the consumer and the environment and rules that are so onerous for the growers that most will opt to stay in the black market.  Stephen Dillon, executive manager of the Humboldt Sun Growers Guild is quoted in the article as saying, “If they set up too rigorous of a program then they will not get buy-in, and...

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