Cannabis compliance: a painstaking but essential part of the legal industry’s growth

In just two years’ time, the business of legal marijuana has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry. And due to that dramatic growth the legal cannabis sector is having cope with a rapidly-changing regulatory landscape, as it attempts keep up with a wide and constantly-changing spectrum of laws and rules in each of the different states and communities where pot is legally grown, prepared and sold.

It can be hard if not impossible for cannabis entrepreneurs to stay aware of all the rules and regulations. Cities like Oakland, California, for example, are working on new standards for medical marijuana dispensaries. Meanwhile in Colorado, state lawmakers are struggling to create a certification program for commercial marijuana growers that would eventually lead to a “pesticide-free” certification for cannabis products.

All these changes mean legal marijuana companies now have to deal with local rules and regulations that might have hundreds of pages of detail,...

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