New Pot Rules Will Double Prices, Crash California System
California’s new medical marijuana regulations could double the cost of pot and crash the legal system, says the founder of the state’s largest dispensary, Harborside Health Center, Stephen DeAngelo. The rules needlessly complicate the state’s supply chain to enrich union distributors at the expense of cancer-stricken patients, DeAngelo argues below.
Last session, California’s legislature finally did what the voters instructed them to do when they passed Proposition 215 almost twenty years ago: regulate the cultivation and distribution of medical cannabis.
Unfortunately, the bill that was ultimately passed in a last-minute midnight session — the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act (MMRSA) — contains serious flaws. If those flaws are not corrected, the retail price of medical cannabis will double or triple —and California’s legal cannabis industry could collapse, along with all the public health and safety benefits, jobs and tax revenue it provides.
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