California's Pot Czar on Upcoming Marijuana Regulation: 'We Will Not Fail'
In a coming together that once seemed highly unlikely, California state regulators Wednesday greeted a hotel ballroom filled with marijuana growers, promising that a licensing program to bring thousands of pot producers out of the shadows will be operational in the state by Jan. 1, 2018.
It was hard to ignore the landmark nature of the informal meeting between California officials – including the head of the new marijuana regulations bureau – and members of the California Growers Association, a 2-year-old trade group representing marijuana farmers.
For years, some of those participating in the growers association’s two-day “Envision 2026: California Cannabis Policy Summit” at the Holiday Inn in downtown Sacramento had operated in the black market of illegal trafficking or the gray market of the California’s long unregulated medical marijuana industry.
But in late 2015, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation to regulate California’s medical marijuana industry by...
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