Head of California’s medical marijuana bureau visits Coalinga
The woman spearheading a statewide effort to regulate the booming but controversial medical marijuana industry is traveling across California to learn more about pot – and teach industry insiders about the state’s lawmaking process.
Lori Ajax, five months into her position as the chief of the newly formed California Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation, visited Coalinga last month. Coalinga is the first city in the central San Joaquin Valley to embrace medical cannabis. The city legalized its manufacture and sold a vacant prison to a cannabis oil manufacturer in July.
In a phone interview the following week, Ajax took The Bee inside the visit – one of many she will make across the state – and the daunting task of writing regulations for an underground industry thrust into legitimacy.
“We hadn’t had a chance to get to the Valley yet,...
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