A Guide to CA's Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act

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In October of this year, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the Medical Marijuana and Safety Act (Assembly Bills 266 and 243 and Senate Bill 643, hereafter the MMRSA). The MMRSA finally regulates California’s medical marijuana industry at the state level almost 20 years after the Compassionate Use Act made medical marijuana legal under state law. The MMRSA provides needed clarity to the legal status of medical marijuana in the state and has some important provisions designed to protect consumers and the environment. It also comports with the priorities outlined in the Cole memo and should serve to insulate the state’s industry from federal action — if that action is, in fact, legal and if the next president doesn’t decide to disregard the Cole Memo (which is, after all, merely about enforcement priorities).

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