A ‘drafting error’ in California’s revision to its medicinal marijuana law could leave established growers like the “Sisters of the Valley” without a crop and out of business.

Sister Kate and Sister Darcey from Merced in California have been producing salves and tonics made with cannabis.

According to their website sistersofcbd.com, the sisters are not members of a religious order but they say they are on a spiritual quest to heal the sick with their medicinal cannabis cures.

They have produced a variety of products made from the cannabinoids or CBD’s found in the marijuana. Their plants do not contain THC, the substance that creates the marijuana high

I once heard an estimate that half of the marijuana industry in America is located in California. California was the first state to legalize medical marijuana, and while it has yet to legalize recreational marijuana, the medical marijuana industry in California is massive. The black market in California is also massive. According to the California Department of Finance, the taxes that the State of California would generate from a legal, regulated recreational marijuana market would top one billion dollars annually. Per SF Gate:

Signal Hill Patients Access PAC today unveiled amended ballot measure language to permit medical cannabis in the heart of Long Beach by regulating medical cannabis with new sections featuring a labor peace agreement provision and onsite consumption of medical cannabis permission. In addition, the amended ballot measure language also includes sections for “Energy Offsets encouraged” and a residential permission provision that permits cultivation by right in the city with no need for any type of official permit from the municipal government. The measure or the law is file number two attached. The initiative will create new revenue for the Signal Hill general fund, police department, and schools.

The Eureka City Council is scheduled to enact a temporary citywide ban on commercial cultivation of medical marijuana at its next meeting, Tuesday night. The agenda item is on the consent calendar, meaning it’s not scheduled to be debated but rather simply passed. It would amend the city’s municipal code to outlaw commercial growing while still allowing qualified patients to grow their own.

California’s new medical marijuana laws were supposed to provide more structure and clarity for the state’s loosely regulated, billion-dollar industry, but in the past few weeks, dozens of municipalities have ignored that intention by moving quickly to ban delivery and other activities codified by the legislation.

Advocates and legislators hope the bans are only a minor setback in the effort to show federal regulators and voters that California — the first state to legalize medical marijuana two decades ago — can provide order to a medical weed sector that has been haphazardly regulated.

California Assemblyman Rob Bonta played a critical function in pressing through policies on the state’s medical marijuana industry, which will significantly change the nation’s biggest MMJ market.

Bonta was a main sponsor of Assembly Costs 266, among three procedures known jointly as the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Security Act (MMRSA).

Facing a state deadline of March 1, the Chino planning commission voted 7-0 Monday to recommend the City of Chino adopt an ordinance to prohibit cultivation, delivery or dispensing of marijuana within the city limits.

Cities that do not adopt their own regulations by the deadline will be subject to regulation by the state under the recently signed Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act, senior planner Michael Hitz told the commission. The state will permit the marijuana activities that the ordinance would ban, he said.

A national medical marijuana advocacy organization published a memo and model ordinance on Monday for California cities and counties, recommending that they regulate the cultivation of medical marijuana instead of banning it.

The memo and model ordinance are part of a project by Americans for Safe Access to support patients and advocates fighting bans on cultivation and pushing for local licensing and regulation of medical marijuana businesses.

A man sentenced in Ventura County Superior Court for possession of marijuana for sale in 1994 was among 91 people pardoned by Gov. Jerry Brown on Christmas Eve.

William Aaron Zigler served four years and seven months' probation following his conviction, the governor's office said Thursday. He was discharged in December 1998 after completing probation.

Since then, Zigler "has lived an honest and upright life, exhibited good moral character and conducted himself as a law-abiding citizen," the governor's office said in his pardon.

To be eligible for a pardon, criminals must have been out of prison for at least 10 years and not committed any new crimes, according to state officials.