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Well, it turns out, he'd been running down Villa Lane here totally naked.”\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size='small' citation='Dr. Lynn Silver, Public Health Institute']'Today's turbocharged products are turbocharging the harms associated with cannabis.'[/pullquote]Kory came to live with his grandmother for a couple years in Napa. She thought maybe she could help. Now, she says that was naïve. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kory was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Kirkaldie blames the pot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The drug use activated the psychosis, is what I really think,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Indeed, research confirms people who use cannabis are\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35315315/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">four times more likely\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to develop chronic psychosis, or schizophrenia, compared to people who don’t. For people who smoke every day or use higher potency products, the risk is up to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35315315/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">six times higher\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. One study found eliminating marijuana use in adolescents would reduce global rates of schizophrenia\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01586-8\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by 10%\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doctors and lawmakers in California want cannabis producers to warn consumers of this and other health risks on their package labels and in advertising, similar to requirements for cigarettes. They also want sellers to distribute health brochures to first-time customers outlining the risks cannabis poses to youth, drivers and those who are pregnant, especially for pot that has high concentrations of THC.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Today's turbocharged products are turbocharging the harms associated with cannabis,” says Dr. Lynn Silver with the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.phi.org/work-with-us/?gclid=CjwKCAjwv-GUBhAzEiwASUMm4sYE1WqZD4Z4iqYpMm60UMxb9B7hGezMGVxymh1JyTsjszQF7jfrIRoCUDUQAvD_BwE\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Public Health Institute\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit sponsoring the proposed labeling legislation,\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1097\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SB 1097\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the Cannabis Right to Know Act.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Californians voted to legalize pot in 2016. Three years later, emergency room visits for cannabis-induced psychosis went up 54% across the state, from 682 visits to 1,053, according to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/hospital-emergency-department-diagnosis-procedure-and-external-cause-codes\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">state hospital data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For people who already have a psychotic disorder, cannabis can make things worse: It leads to more ER visits, more hospitalizations, and more legal troubles, says\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/deepak_dsouza/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Deepak Cyril D’Souza\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a psychiatry professor at Yale University School of Medicine, who also serves on the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://portal.ct.gov/DCP/Medical-Marijuana-Program/Medical-Marijuana-Program-Board-of-Physicians\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">physicians’ advisory board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for Connecticut's medical marijuana program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But D’Souza faces great difficulty convincing his patients of the dangers, especially as\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-medical-marijuana-laws.aspx\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">19 states\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have legalized recreational marijuana.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Both my patients with schizophrenia, and also adolescents, hear very conflicting messages that it's legal — [that] in fact, there may be medical uses for it,” he says. “If there are medical uses, how can we say there's anything wrong with it?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11916223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A rectangular wooden frame holds three images of children. Two are blurred and the third shows Kory as a young boy in a denim shirt with a mop of dark hair, black eyes, and a happy smile.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Kirkaldie holds a photo of Kory as a child at her home in Napa on June 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Legalization is not the problem, he says, but rather the commercialization of cannabis — the heavy marketing, which can be geared toward attracting young people to become customers for life — and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/27/california-cannabis-gets-thc-boost-as-voters-consider-legalizing-pot/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the increase in THC\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from 4% on average up to 20%-35% in today’s varieties.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Limiting the amount of THC in pot products and including health warnings on the labels could help reduce the health harms associated with cannabis use, D’Souza says, the same way they worked for cigarettes. He credits warning labels, education campaigns and marketing restrictions for the sharp drop in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/trends-in-tobacco-use-among-youth.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">smoking rates among kids and teens\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the last decade. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We know how to message them,” D’Souza says. “But I don’t think we have the will or the resources, as yet.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some states, including Colorado, Oregon and New York, have dabbled with cannabis warning label requirements. California’s proposed legislation suggests language for 10 distinct warnings, including:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11916265\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-800x389.jpg\" alt=\"Three suggested warning labels in black lettering on a bright yellow background read: WARNING: Cannabis use may contribute to mental health problems, including psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. Risk is greatest for frequent users and when using products with high THC levels. WARNING: Not for Kids or Teens! Starting cannabis use young or using frequently may lead to problem use and, according to the U.S. Surgeon General, may harm the developing brain. WARNING: Do not use if pregnant or breastfeeding. Substances in cannabis are transferred from the mother to the child and may harm your baby’s health, including causing low birth weight.\" width=\"800\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-800x389.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-1020x495.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-160x78.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-1536x746.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1.jpg 1678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s proposed rules are modeled after comprehensive protocols established in Canada: rotating health warnings would have to be set against a bright yellow background, use black 12-point font, and take up a third of the front of the package. \u003ccite>(Image by Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Opponents of the proposed warning labels say the requirements are excessive and expensive, especially since marketing to children is already prohibited in California and people must be 21 to buy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This bill is really duplicative and puts unnecessary burdens on the legal cannabis industry, as we already have incredibly restrictive packaging and advertising requirements,” says Lindsay Robinson, executive director of the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cacannabisindustry.org/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California Cannabis Industry Association\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which represents legal pot businesses.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state should focus more on combatting the illicit pot market, rather than further regulating the legal one, she says. Legal dispensaries are already struggling to keep up with existing rules and taxes: The state’s 1,500 licensed pot retailers generated \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/dataportal/dataset.htm?url=CannabisTaxRevenues\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">$1.3 billion in state tax revenue\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> last year. Adding more requirements just makes it harder for them to compete with the illicit market, she says, and more likely to go out of business.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The only real option if they fail out of the legal system is to shutter their businesses altogether or to operate underground. And I don't think the state of California, with the tax revenue, wants either of those to happen,” she says. “The heart of the issue is that there's a massive, unregulated market in the state.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some people, even parents like Elizabeth Kirkaldie, are skeptical the labels will work. Her grandson, Kory, is stable now, living with his dad. But she’s not sure a yellow warning would’ve stopped him when he was a teen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They’re just not going to pay attention,” she says. “But if it helps even one person? Great.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scientists still do not know what causes schizophrenia, but they believe multiple factors are at play, including genetics, family history, trauma and other influences in a person’s environment, like smoking pot. Some scientists believe having schizophrenia itself is what \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5341491/#:~:text=We%20found%20strong%20evidence%20in,2014).\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">predisposes people to smoking pot\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. While it’s difficult to prove a direct causal link between cannabis use and schizophrenia, the associations are strong enough to warrant action, says D’Souza — and importantly, pot use is one of the only risk factors people can control.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Not everyone who smoked cigarettes developed lung cancer, and not everyone who has lung cancer smoked cigarettes,” he says. “But I think we would all agree that one of the most preventable causes of lung cancer is cigarette smoking.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Applying the same health education strategies to cannabis that were used for tobacco, he says, is long overdue.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"One study found eliminating marijuana use in adolescents would reduce global rates of schizophrenia by 10%.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1654817094,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1169},"headData":{"title":"Cases of Cannabis-Induced Psychosis Rise. 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Lawmakers Want to Add Mental Health Warnings to Pot Products","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/1e4ccc05-8878-4c91-b3a1-aead0134ab56/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11916028/lawmakers-consider-adding-mental-health-warnings-to-pot-products","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elizabeth Kirkaldie’s grandson was at the top of his class in high school and a talented jazz bassist when he started smoking pot. The more serious he got about music, the more serious he got about pot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And the more serious he got about pot, the more he became paranoid, even psychotic. He started hearing voices.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They were going to kill him and there were people coming to eat his brain. Weird, weird stuff,” Kirkaldie says. “I woke up one morning and no Kory anywhere. Well, it turns out, he'd been running down Villa Lane here totally naked.”\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Today's turbocharged products are turbocharging the harms associated with cannabis.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","citation":"Dr. Lynn Silver, Public Health Institute","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Kory came to live with his grandmother for a couple years in Napa. She thought maybe she could help. Now, she says that was naïve. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kory was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Kirkaldie blames the pot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The drug use activated the psychosis, is what I really think,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Indeed, research confirms people who use cannabis are\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35315315/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">four times more likely\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to develop chronic psychosis, or schizophrenia, compared to people who don’t. For people who smoke every day or use higher potency products, the risk is up to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35315315/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">six times higher\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. One study found eliminating marijuana use in adolescents would reduce global rates of schizophrenia\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01586-8\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by 10%\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doctors and lawmakers in California want cannabis producers to warn consumers of this and other health risks on their package labels and in advertising, similar to requirements for cigarettes. They also want sellers to distribute health brochures to first-time customers outlining the risks cannabis poses to youth, drivers and those who are pregnant, especially for pot that has high concentrations of THC.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Today's turbocharged products are turbocharging the harms associated with cannabis,” says Dr. Lynn Silver with the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.phi.org/work-with-us/?gclid=CjwKCAjwv-GUBhAzEiwASUMm4sYE1WqZD4Z4iqYpMm60UMxb9B7hGezMGVxymh1JyTsjszQF7jfrIRoCUDUQAvD_BwE\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Public Health Institute\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit sponsoring the proposed labeling legislation,\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1097\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SB 1097\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the Cannabis Right to Know Act.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Californians voted to legalize pot in 2016. Three years later, emergency room visits for cannabis-induced psychosis went up 54% across the state, from 682 visits to 1,053, according to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/hospital-emergency-department-diagnosis-procedure-and-external-cause-codes\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">state hospital data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For people who already have a psychotic disorder, cannabis can make things worse: It leads to more ER visits, more hospitalizations, and more legal troubles, says\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/deepak_dsouza/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Deepak Cyril D’Souza\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a psychiatry professor at Yale University School of Medicine, who also serves on the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://portal.ct.gov/DCP/Medical-Marijuana-Program/Medical-Marijuana-Program-Board-of-Physicians\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">physicians’ advisory board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for Connecticut's medical marijuana program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But D’Souza faces great difficulty convincing his patients of the dangers, especially as\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-medical-marijuana-laws.aspx\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">19 states\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have legalized recreational marijuana.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Both my patients with schizophrenia, and also adolescents, hear very conflicting messages that it's legal — [that] in fact, there may be medical uses for it,” he says. “If there are medical uses, how can we say there's anything wrong with it?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11916223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A rectangular wooden frame holds three images of children. Two are blurred and the third shows Kory as a young boy in a denim shirt with a mop of dark hair, black eyes, and a happy smile.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Kirkaldie holds a photo of Kory as a child at her home in Napa on June 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Legalization is not the problem, he says, but rather the commercialization of cannabis — the heavy marketing, which can be geared toward attracting young people to become customers for life — and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/27/california-cannabis-gets-thc-boost-as-voters-consider-legalizing-pot/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the increase in THC\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from 4% on average up to 20%-35% in today’s varieties.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Limiting the amount of THC in pot products and including health warnings on the labels could help reduce the health harms associated with cannabis use, D’Souza says, the same way they worked for cigarettes. He credits warning labels, education campaigns and marketing restrictions for the sharp drop in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/trends-in-tobacco-use-among-youth.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">smoking rates among kids and teens\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the last decade. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We know how to message them,” D’Souza says. “But I don’t think we have the will or the resources, as yet.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some states, including Colorado, Oregon and New York, have dabbled with cannabis warning label requirements. California’s proposed legislation suggests language for 10 distinct warnings, including:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11916265\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-800x389.jpg\" alt=\"Three suggested warning labels in black lettering on a bright yellow background read: WARNING: Cannabis use may contribute to mental health problems, including psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. Risk is greatest for frequent users and when using products with high THC levels. WARNING: Not for Kids or Teens! Starting cannabis use young or using frequently may lead to problem use and, according to the U.S. Surgeon General, may harm the developing brain. WARNING: Do not use if pregnant or breastfeeding. Substances in cannabis are transferred from the mother to the child and may harm your baby’s health, including causing low birth weight.\" width=\"800\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-800x389.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-1020x495.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-160x78.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-1536x746.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1.jpg 1678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s proposed rules are modeled after comprehensive protocols established in Canada: rotating health warnings would have to be set against a bright yellow background, use black 12-point font, and take up a third of the front of the package. \u003ccite>(Image by Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Opponents of the proposed warning labels say the requirements are excessive and expensive, especially since marketing to children is already prohibited in California and people must be 21 to buy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This bill is really duplicative and puts unnecessary burdens on the legal cannabis industry, as we already have incredibly restrictive packaging and advertising requirements,” says Lindsay Robinson, executive director of the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cacannabisindustry.org/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California Cannabis Industry Association\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which represents legal pot businesses.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state should focus more on combatting the illicit pot market, rather than further regulating the legal one, she says. Legal dispensaries are already struggling to keep up with existing rules and taxes: The state’s 1,500 licensed pot retailers generated \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/dataportal/dataset.htm?url=CannabisTaxRevenues\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">$1.3 billion in state tax revenue\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> last year. Adding more requirements just makes it harder for them to compete with the illicit market, she says, and more likely to go out of business.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The only real option if they fail out of the legal system is to shutter their businesses altogether or to operate underground. And I don't think the state of California, with the tax revenue, wants either of those to happen,” she says. “The heart of the issue is that there's a massive, unregulated market in the state.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some people, even parents like Elizabeth Kirkaldie, are skeptical the labels will work. Her grandson, Kory, is stable now, living with his dad. But she’s not sure a yellow warning would’ve stopped him when he was a teen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They’re just not going to pay attention,” she says. “But if it helps even one person? Great.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scientists still do not know what causes schizophrenia, but they believe multiple factors are at play, including genetics, family history, trauma and other influences in a person’s environment, like smoking pot. Some scientists believe having schizophrenia itself is what \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5341491/#:~:text=We%20found%20strong%20evidence%20in,2014).\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">predisposes people to smoking pot\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. While it’s difficult to prove a direct causal link between cannabis use and schizophrenia, the associations are strong enough to warrant action, says D’Souza — and importantly, pot use is one of the only risk factors people can control.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Not everyone who smoked cigarettes developed lung cancer, and not everyone who has lung cancer smoked cigarettes,” he says. “But I think we would all agree that one of the most preventable causes of lung cancer is cigarette smoking.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Applying the same health education strategies to cannabis that were used for tobacco, he says, is long overdue.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11916028/lawmakers-consider-adding-mental-health-warnings-to-pot-products","authors":["3205"],"categories":["news_457","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_28199","news_102","news_431","news_22282","news_31186"],"featImg":"news_11916217","label":"news"},"news_11770196":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11770196","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11770196","score":null,"sort":[1566916768000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"chocolate-can-throw-off-marijuana-potency-tests-researchers-say","title":"Chocolate Can Throw Off Marijuana Potency Tests, Researchers Say","publishDate":1566916768,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>How much marijuana is really in that pot brownie? Chocolate can throw off potency tests so labels aren't always accurate, and now scientists are trying to figure out why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In states where marijuana is legal, pot comes in cookies, mints, gummies, protein bars — even pretzels. These commercial products are labeled with the amount of high-inducing THC. That helps medical marijuana patients get the desired dose and other consumers attune their buzz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But something about chocolate, chemists say, seems to interfere with potency testing. A chocolate labeled as 10 milligrams of THC could have far more and send someone to the emergency room with hallucinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest research on chocolate, to be presented at a San Diego meeting this week, is one example of chemistry's growing role in the marijuana industry. Besides chocolate's quirks, chemists are working on extending shelf life, mimicking marijuana's earthy aroma and making products safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The marijuana business is at a crossroads in its push for legitimacy. The federal government still considers marijuana illegal, yet more than 30 U.S. states allow it for at least medical use. Even in those states, there are no recognized standard methods for testing products for safety and quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chemists working for marijuana companies and testing labs are developing those standards and some are legally protecting their ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scores of cannabis-related inventions have received U.S. patents, said Boston attorney Vincent Capuano, who holds a doctorate in organic chemistry. Inventors have patented ways of putting cannabis into milk, coffee pods, ice pops and chewing gum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770220\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11770220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38748_GettyImages-805234916-qut-800x483.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38748_GettyImages-805234916-qut-800x483.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38748_GettyImages-805234916-qut-160x97.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38748_GettyImages-805234916-qut-1020x615.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38748_GettyImages-805234916-qut-1200x724.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38748_GettyImages-805234916-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edibles \u003ccite>( Ethan Miller / Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of flash and hipness, snake oil and marketing. But there's still a lot of real chemical advance happening,\" Capuano said of the industry. \"It's right in center field for chemists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marijuana contains hundreds of chemicals, including cannabinoids such as THC and CBD, a trendy ingredient with unproven health claims. Some pose challenges when they're processed. Chocolate is a good example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The chocolate itself is affecting our ability to measure the cannabinoids within it,\" said David Dawson, chemist and lead researcher at CW Analytical Laboratories in Oakland, which tests marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The more chocolate in the vial, the less accurate the test results, he found. He thinks some of the THC is clinging to the fat in chocolate, effectively hiding from the test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dawson's research is on the agenda at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Diego. The conference includes 20 presentations about marijuana's technical challenges, said Markus Roggen, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based chemist organizing the program. That's a big change from a few years ago when presenters didn't get much beyond the basics such as: \"This is THC. This is CBD.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in the marijuana industry hold \"a mythical belief in the goddess of cannabis,\" Roggen said, but chemists view marijuana more objectively. For its part, the industry is learning to accept the \"new guard of scientists with a different approach to the plant,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another focus of research is a group of chemicals called terpenes that give the marijuana plant its pungent aroma. Many terpenes get lost or changed in the process of making a THC or CBD extract. But users want a certain smell and taste, said chemist Jeffrey Raber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raber heads the Werc Shop, a Los Angeles company that mixes terpenes from lavender, oranges, black pepper and other plants to mimic the flavor and scent of cannabis varieties. The mashups are sold to companies who add them to oils, tinctures and foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monica Vialpando, a San Francisco chemist, is working to prevent drinks with CBD and THC oils from separating into unappealing layers while sitting on the shelf. The oils don't dissolve in water, a problem for companies trying to create new drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're fighting against the true nature of the THC,\" said Vialpando, who came to cannabis from the pharmaceutical industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"weed, cannabis, pot\" label=\"More Cannabis Stories.\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chemists solve the problem by increasing the surface area of the oil particles and adding ingredients, called surfactants and emulsifiers, to prevent separation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said consumers should be skeptical of outrageous claims for edibles and beverages, including that all the THC or CBD in a product will be absorbed. Some potency will always be lost in the digestive system before it hits the bloodstream, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for now, exactly what happens in the human body with most of these products is unclear, Vialpando said, because there's been very little safety testing of cannabis emulsions in animals, much less in humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Ottawa, Ontario, a Canadian government lab is working on a sensor to help police identify stoned drivers. The goal is to detect cannabinoid molecules in saliva or breath droplets, using light and nanoparticles. Still years away from roadside use, the technology might someday also be used by marijuana growers to determine the peak time to harvest, said chemist Li-Lin Tay, who leads the work for National Research Council of Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To do his work with chocolate, Dawson grinds a THC-infused chocolate bar in a commercial food processor, weighs samples, adds solvent to the material (\"It starts looking like chocolate milk,\" he says), before measuring the THC potency. He's tested cocoa powder, baking chocolate and white chocolate to try to determine what ingredients are hiding the THC during testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will lead to better testing standards and safer products, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need good 'capital S' science,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The latest research on chocolate, to be presented at a San Diego meeting this week, is one example of chemistry's growing role in the marijuana industry.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1566916768,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":918},"headData":{"title":"Chocolate Can Throw Off Marijuana Potency Tests, Researchers Say | KQED","description":"The latest research on chocolate, to be presented at a San Diego meeting this week, is one example of chemistry's growing role in the marijuana industry.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11770196 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11770196","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/08/27/chocolate-can-throw-off-marijuana-potency-tests-researchers-say/","disqusTitle":"Chocolate Can Throw Off Marijuana Potency Tests, Researchers Say","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Carla K. Johnson\u003cbr/ >Associated Press\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11770196/chocolate-can-throw-off-marijuana-potency-tests-researchers-say","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>How much marijuana is really in that pot brownie? Chocolate can throw off potency tests so labels aren't always accurate, and now scientists are trying to figure out why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In states where marijuana is legal, pot comes in cookies, mints, gummies, protein bars — even pretzels. These commercial products are labeled with the amount of high-inducing THC. That helps medical marijuana patients get the desired dose and other consumers attune their buzz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But something about chocolate, chemists say, seems to interfere with potency testing. A chocolate labeled as 10 milligrams of THC could have far more and send someone to the emergency room with hallucinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest research on chocolate, to be presented at a San Diego meeting this week, is one example of chemistry's growing role in the marijuana industry. Besides chocolate's quirks, chemists are working on extending shelf life, mimicking marijuana's earthy aroma and making products safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The marijuana business is at a crossroads in its push for legitimacy. The federal government still considers marijuana illegal, yet more than 30 U.S. states allow it for at least medical use. Even in those states, there are no recognized standard methods for testing products for safety and quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chemists working for marijuana companies and testing labs are developing those standards and some are legally protecting their ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scores of cannabis-related inventions have received U.S. patents, said Boston attorney Vincent Capuano, who holds a doctorate in organic chemistry. Inventors have patented ways of putting cannabis into milk, coffee pods, ice pops and chewing gum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770220\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11770220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38748_GettyImages-805234916-qut-800x483.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38748_GettyImages-805234916-qut-800x483.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38748_GettyImages-805234916-qut-160x97.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38748_GettyImages-805234916-qut-1020x615.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38748_GettyImages-805234916-qut-1200x724.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38748_GettyImages-805234916-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edibles \u003ccite>( Ethan Miller / Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of flash and hipness, snake oil and marketing. But there's still a lot of real chemical advance happening,\" Capuano said of the industry. \"It's right in center field for chemists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marijuana contains hundreds of chemicals, including cannabinoids such as THC and CBD, a trendy ingredient with unproven health claims. Some pose challenges when they're processed. Chocolate is a good example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The chocolate itself is affecting our ability to measure the cannabinoids within it,\" said David Dawson, chemist and lead researcher at CW Analytical Laboratories in Oakland, which tests marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The more chocolate in the vial, the less accurate the test results, he found. He thinks some of the THC is clinging to the fat in chocolate, effectively hiding from the test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dawson's research is on the agenda at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Diego. The conference includes 20 presentations about marijuana's technical challenges, said Markus Roggen, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based chemist organizing the program. That's a big change from a few years ago when presenters didn't get much beyond the basics such as: \"This is THC. This is CBD.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in the marijuana industry hold \"a mythical belief in the goddess of cannabis,\" Roggen said, but chemists view marijuana more objectively. For its part, the industry is learning to accept the \"new guard of scientists with a different approach to the plant,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another focus of research is a group of chemicals called terpenes that give the marijuana plant its pungent aroma. Many terpenes get lost or changed in the process of making a THC or CBD extract. But users want a certain smell and taste, said chemist Jeffrey Raber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raber heads the Werc Shop, a Los Angeles company that mixes terpenes from lavender, oranges, black pepper and other plants to mimic the flavor and scent of cannabis varieties. The mashups are sold to companies who add them to oils, tinctures and foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monica Vialpando, a San Francisco chemist, is working to prevent drinks with CBD and THC oils from separating into unappealing layers while sitting on the shelf. The oils don't dissolve in water, a problem for companies trying to create new drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're fighting against the true nature of the THC,\" said Vialpando, who came to cannabis from the pharmaceutical industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"weed, cannabis, pot","label":"More Cannabis Stories. "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chemists solve the problem by increasing the surface area of the oil particles and adding ingredients, called surfactants and emulsifiers, to prevent separation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said consumers should be skeptical of outrageous claims for edibles and beverages, including that all the THC or CBD in a product will be absorbed. Some potency will always be lost in the digestive system before it hits the bloodstream, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for now, exactly what happens in the human body with most of these products is unclear, Vialpando said, because there's been very little safety testing of cannabis emulsions in animals, much less in humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Ottawa, Ontario, a Canadian government lab is working on a sensor to help police identify stoned drivers. The goal is to detect cannabinoid molecules in saliva or breath droplets, using light and nanoparticles. Still years away from roadside use, the technology might someday also be used by marijuana growers to determine the peak time to harvest, said chemist Li-Lin Tay, who leads the work for National Research Council of Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To do his work with chocolate, Dawson grinds a THC-infused chocolate bar in a commercial food processor, weighs samples, adds solvent to the material (\"It starts looking like chocolate milk,\" he says), before measuring the THC potency. He's tested cocoa powder, baking chocolate and white chocolate to try to determine what ingredients are hiding the THC during testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will lead to better testing standards and safer products, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need good 'capital S' science,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11770196/chocolate-can-throw-off-marijuana-potency-tests-researchers-say","authors":["byline_news_11770196"],"categories":["news_24114","news_457","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_19963","news_23263","news_1930","news_102","news_22282"],"featImg":"news_11770207","label":"news"},"news_11737089":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11737089","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11737089","score":null,"sort":[1554155502000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"l-a-to-use-tech-to-wipe-out-tens-of-thousands-of-old-pot-convictions","title":"L.A. to Use Tech to Wipe Out Tens of Thousands of Old Pot Convictions","publishDate":1554155502,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Los Angeles-area prosecutors are joining other district attorneys to use technology to wipe out or reduce as many as 50,000 old marijuana convictions, more than a year after recreational use of the drug became legal in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county is working with \u003ca href=\"https://www.codeforamerica.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Code for America\u003c/a>, a San Francisco-based nonprofit tech organization, which uses algorithms to find eligible cases that are otherwise hard to identify in decades-old court documents. It comes after San Francisco successfully cleared convictions using a similar approach, one that other cities and states nationwide said they will try to replicate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This collaboration will improve people's lives by erasing the mistakes of their past and hopefully lead them on a path to a better future,\" L.A. County District Attorney Jackie Lacey said in a statement Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin County also announced their partnership with the group to remove up to 4,000 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California voters approved eliminating some pot-related crimes and wiping out past criminal convictions or reducing felonies to misdemeanors when they legalized adult marijuana use in 2016. The law went into effect at the beginning of 2018. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was no easy way to identify an estimated 200,000 cases statewide. Past offenders had to file petitions on their own to get their records changed or hire lawyers for help with the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After partnering with the group, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón announced last month that 9,300 cases dating to 1975 will be dropped or reduced for free, in many cases without the offenders’ knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It began when his office started sifting through thousands of criminal cases last year to identify eligible marijuana convictions after only 23 people who hired lawyers had taken advantage of the new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, after managing to dismiss just over 1,000 cases during the painstaking process, Gascón partnered with CFA. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Computer coders with the group, which aims to make government more efficient, developed the Clear My Record algorithm to quickly identify eligible cases and automatically fill out forms to file with the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we do this right, we show that government can make good on its promises, especially for the hundreds of thousands who have been denied jobs, housing and other opportunities despite the passage of laws intended to provide relief,\" said Jennifer Pahlka, executive director of Code for America. \"Clear My Record changes the scale and speed of justice and has the potential to ignite change across the state and the nation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors in a host of cities across the country, including Baltimore, Seattle and Chicago, have expressed interested in clearing eligible marijuana convictions. And in Michigan, which legalized pot last year, officials said they would eliminate pot crimes and allow past convictions to be erased or reduced.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Los Angeles prosecutors are joining other California district attorneys to tap technology that could wipe out or reduce more than 50,000 old marijuana convictions.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1554157049,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":470},"headData":{"title":"L.A. to Use Tech to Wipe Out Tens of Thousands of Old Pot Convictions | KQED","description":"Los Angeles prosecutors are joining other California district attorneys to tap technology that could wipe out or reduce more than 50,000 old marijuana convictions.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11737089 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11737089","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/04/01/l-a-to-use-tech-to-wipe-out-tens-of-thousands-of-old-pot-convictions/","disqusTitle":"L.A. to Use Tech to Wipe Out Tens of Thousands of Old Pot Convictions","nprByline":"Associated Press","path":"/news/11737089/l-a-to-use-tech-to-wipe-out-tens-of-thousands-of-old-pot-convictions","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Los Angeles-area prosecutors are joining other district attorneys to use technology to wipe out or reduce as many as 50,000 old marijuana convictions, more than a year after recreational use of the drug became legal in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county is working with \u003ca href=\"https://www.codeforamerica.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Code for America\u003c/a>, a San Francisco-based nonprofit tech organization, which uses algorithms to find eligible cases that are otherwise hard to identify in decades-old court documents. It comes after San Francisco successfully cleared convictions using a similar approach, one that other cities and states nationwide said they will try to replicate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This collaboration will improve people's lives by erasing the mistakes of their past and hopefully lead them on a path to a better future,\" L.A. County District Attorney Jackie Lacey said in a statement Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin County also announced their partnership with the group to remove up to 4,000 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California voters approved eliminating some pot-related crimes and wiping out past criminal convictions or reducing felonies to misdemeanors when they legalized adult marijuana use in 2016. The law went into effect at the beginning of 2018. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was no easy way to identify an estimated 200,000 cases statewide. Past offenders had to file petitions on their own to get their records changed or hire lawyers for help with the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After partnering with the group, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón announced last month that 9,300 cases dating to 1975 will be dropped or reduced for free, in many cases without the offenders’ knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It began when his office started sifting through thousands of criminal cases last year to identify eligible marijuana convictions after only 23 people who hired lawyers had taken advantage of the new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, after managing to dismiss just over 1,000 cases during the painstaking process, Gascón partnered with CFA. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Computer coders with the group, which aims to make government more efficient, developed the Clear My Record algorithm to quickly identify eligible cases and automatically fill out forms to file with the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we do this right, we show that government can make good on its promises, especially for the hundreds of thousands who have been denied jobs, housing and other opportunities despite the passage of laws intended to provide relief,\" said Jennifer Pahlka, executive director of Code for America. \"Clear My Record changes the scale and speed of justice and has the potential to ignite change across the state and the nation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors in a host of cities across the country, including Baltimore, Seattle and Chicago, have expressed interested in clearing eligible marijuana convictions. And in Michigan, which legalized pot last year, officials said they would eliminate pot crimes and allow past convictions to be erased or reduced.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11737089/l-a-to-use-tech-to-wipe-out-tens-of-thousands-of-old-pot-convictions","authors":["byline_news_11737089"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_4","news_102","news_18584","news_22282"],"featImg":"news_11712965","label":"news_72"},"news_11726034":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11726034","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11726034","score":null,"sort":[1550105165000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-treasurer-urges-congress-to-fully-open-banks-to-marijuana-industry","title":"California Treasurer Urges Congress to Fully Open Banks to Marijuana Industry","publishDate":1550105165,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California State Treasurer Fiona Ma is asking Congress to pass legislation to make it easier for banks and credit unions to work with businesses that deal in cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ma on Wednesday joined bank officials and cannabis advocates at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions about the challenges that cannabis-related businesses face in accessing banking services, since cannabis is still illegal under federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told members of the subcommittee that when she joined California's Board of Equalization in 2014, she was surprised at how difficult it was for legal marijuana businesses to pay their state sales taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Duffel bags and sometimes suitcases of cash would arrive quarterly at some of our designated offices, and some folks had to drive 350 miles just to pay their taxes,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ma and the others testifying asked members of the committee to fully open the doors of the U.S. banking system to the legal marijuana industry, a change that supporters say would reduce crime risks and resolve a litany of challenges for cannabis companies, from paying taxes to getting a loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Americans live in states where marijuana is legally available in some form, including California, which legalized recreational marijuana in 2016 and is the nation's largest legal pot market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most banks don't want anything to do with money from the cannabis industry, for fear it could expose them to legal trouble from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That conflict has left many growers and sellers in the burgeoning pot industry in a legal dilemma, shutting them out of everyday financial services like opening a bank account or obtaining a credit card. It also has forced many businesses to operate only in cash — sometimes vast amounts — making them ripe targets for crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banking, government and industry representatives at the House hearing urged lawmakers to pass a proposal that would allow pot businesses to access loans, lines of credit and other banking services, while sheltering financial institutions from prosecution for handling pot money.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714984/a-california-backed-marijuana-bank-state-study-says-unlikely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A California-backed Marijuana Bank? State Study Says Unlikely\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714984/a-california-backed-marijuana-bank-state-study-says-unlikely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS25526_GettyImages-542220918-qut-1020x678.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"In California, we have been trying to pass many pieces of legislation to either work around, go around or patch this issue of banking access, and we have come to the conclusion that we really need Congress to act,\" Ma said. \"Having a safe harbor for banks is probably the most expeditious way of getting more folks out of the black and gray markets and into the legitimate markets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers rejected a proposal last year that would have created a state-backed bank for the marijuana industry, and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714984/a-california-backed-marijuana-bank-state-study-says-unlikely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent report\u003c/a> commissioned by Ma's predecessor, John Chiang, found that such a bank would require more than $1 billion in capital investment and fail to be profitable for 25 to 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ma called federal action a crucial step for the rapidly expanding industry. She cited \u003ca href=\"https://bdsanalytics.com/new-report-legal-marijuana-markets-projected-to-reach-23-4-billion-employ-nearly-a-half-million-americans-by-2022-effective-end-of-federal-prohibition-is-in-sight/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another report\u003c/a> that projects consumer spending on legal cannabis in the U.S. will reach $23 billion by 2022, including more than $5 billion in California alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s critical we accommodate the magnitude of this economic uptick with access to banking for this new state-regulated industry,\" Ma told lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also noted other ancillary impacts of not having banking access for cannabis businesses, including people not reporting domestic violence for fear of police coming into their homes or businesses. She said people who don't report their income from cannabis businesses may not be liable for child support or be eligible for full Social Security benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So there's a lot of social impacts that are also affecting the communities by not having access to banking,\" Ma said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregory S. Deckard, who spoke on behalf of the Independent Community Bankers of America, said the cloud of legal uncertainty was inhibiting access to banks while creating safety hazards for businesses. The proposal, he said, \"would offer the needed clarity\" for more financial institutions to welcome the marijuana industry as customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others had concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer of Missouri said the proposal would create confusion while marijuana remains illegal at the federal level. He questioned how banks would identify criminal operators and pointed to how Congress handled hemp, the low-THC cousin of the cannabis plant, which was removed from the list of federally controlled substances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the banking legislation, \"we are putting the cart before the horse,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legalization advocates have reason to celebrate that the hearing simply took place, when the proposal — and other similar versions — have languished in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lawmakers are not being asked to weigh in on whether marijuana should be legal or not. They are simply looking at whether banking services should be available to these businesses in states where it is already legal,\" said Mason Tvert of the Marijuana Policy Project, an advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of banks and credit unions willing to handle pot money is growing, but they still represent only a tiny fraction of the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing comes days after Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden proposed legislation that would give states a free hand to allow legal cannabis markets without the threat of federal criminal intervention. The proposal would take marijuana off the federal controlled substances list and remove federal criminal penalties for individuals and businesses acting in compliance with state marijuana laws. An identical proposal is pending in the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporting from Nina Thorsen of KQED and Michael R. Blood of the Associated Press was used in this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'We have come to the conclusion that we really need Congress to act,' Treasurer Fiona Ma told lawmakers, after efforts to create a state-backed bank for the marijuana industry sputtered.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1550108607,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":927},"headData":{"title":"California Treasurer Urges Congress to Fully Open Banks to Marijuana Industry | KQED","description":"'We have come to the conclusion that we really need Congress to act,' Treasurer Fiona Ma told lawmakers, after efforts to create a state-backed bank for the marijuana industry sputtered.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11726034 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11726034","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/02/13/california-treasurer-urges-congress-to-fully-open-banks-to-marijuana-industry/","disqusTitle":"California Treasurer Urges Congress to Fully Open Banks to Marijuana Industry","path":"/news/11726034/california-treasurer-urges-congress-to-fully-open-banks-to-marijuana-industry","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California State Treasurer Fiona Ma is asking Congress to pass legislation to make it easier for banks and credit unions to work with businesses that deal in cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ma on Wednesday joined bank officials and cannabis advocates at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions about the challenges that cannabis-related businesses face in accessing banking services, since cannabis is still illegal under federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told members of the subcommittee that when she joined California's Board of Equalization in 2014, she was surprised at how difficult it was for legal marijuana businesses to pay their state sales taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Duffel bags and sometimes suitcases of cash would arrive quarterly at some of our designated offices, and some folks had to drive 350 miles just to pay their taxes,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ma and the others testifying asked members of the committee to fully open the doors of the U.S. banking system to the legal marijuana industry, a change that supporters say would reduce crime risks and resolve a litany of challenges for cannabis companies, from paying taxes to getting a loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Americans live in states where marijuana is legally available in some form, including California, which legalized recreational marijuana in 2016 and is the nation's largest legal pot market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most banks don't want anything to do with money from the cannabis industry, for fear it could expose them to legal trouble from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That conflict has left many growers and sellers in the burgeoning pot industry in a legal dilemma, shutting them out of everyday financial services like opening a bank account or obtaining a credit card. It also has forced many businesses to operate only in cash — sometimes vast amounts — making them ripe targets for crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banking, government and industry representatives at the House hearing urged lawmakers to pass a proposal that would allow pot businesses to access loans, lines of credit and other banking services, while sheltering financial institutions from prosecution for handling pot money.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714984/a-california-backed-marijuana-bank-state-study-says-unlikely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A California-backed Marijuana Bank? State Study Says Unlikely\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714984/a-california-backed-marijuana-bank-state-study-says-unlikely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS25526_GettyImages-542220918-qut-1020x678.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"In California, we have been trying to pass many pieces of legislation to either work around, go around or patch this issue of banking access, and we have come to the conclusion that we really need Congress to act,\" Ma said. \"Having a safe harbor for banks is probably the most expeditious way of getting more folks out of the black and gray markets and into the legitimate markets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers rejected a proposal last year that would have created a state-backed bank for the marijuana industry, and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714984/a-california-backed-marijuana-bank-state-study-says-unlikely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent report\u003c/a> commissioned by Ma's predecessor, John Chiang, found that such a bank would require more than $1 billion in capital investment and fail to be profitable for 25 to 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ma called federal action a crucial step for the rapidly expanding industry. She cited \u003ca href=\"https://bdsanalytics.com/new-report-legal-marijuana-markets-projected-to-reach-23-4-billion-employ-nearly-a-half-million-americans-by-2022-effective-end-of-federal-prohibition-is-in-sight/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another report\u003c/a> that projects consumer spending on legal cannabis in the U.S. will reach $23 billion by 2022, including more than $5 billion in California alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s critical we accommodate the magnitude of this economic uptick with access to banking for this new state-regulated industry,\" Ma told lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also noted other ancillary impacts of not having banking access for cannabis businesses, including people not reporting domestic violence for fear of police coming into their homes or businesses. She said people who don't report their income from cannabis businesses may not be liable for child support or be eligible for full Social Security benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So there's a lot of social impacts that are also affecting the communities by not having access to banking,\" Ma said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregory S. Deckard, who spoke on behalf of the Independent Community Bankers of America, said the cloud of legal uncertainty was inhibiting access to banks while creating safety hazards for businesses. The proposal, he said, \"would offer the needed clarity\" for more financial institutions to welcome the marijuana industry as customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others had concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer of Missouri said the proposal would create confusion while marijuana remains illegal at the federal level. He questioned how banks would identify criminal operators and pointed to how Congress handled hemp, the low-THC cousin of the cannabis plant, which was removed from the list of federally controlled substances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the banking legislation, \"we are putting the cart before the horse,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legalization advocates have reason to celebrate that the hearing simply took place, when the proposal — and other similar versions — have languished in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lawmakers are not being asked to weigh in on whether marijuana should be legal or not. They are simply looking at whether banking services should be available to these businesses in states where it is already legal,\" said Mason Tvert of the Marijuana Policy Project, an advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of banks and credit unions willing to handle pot money is growing, but they still represent only a tiny fraction of the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing comes days after Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden proposed legislation that would give states a free hand to allow legal cannabis markets without the threat of federal criminal intervention. The proposal would take marijuana off the federal controlled substances list and remove federal criminal penalties for individuals and businesses acting in compliance with state marijuana laws. An identical proposal is pending in the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporting from Nina Thorsen of KQED and Michael R. Blood of the Associated Press was used in this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11726034/california-treasurer-urges-congress-to-fully-open-banks-to-marijuana-industry","authors":["237"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8"],"tags":["news_21368","news_19963","news_24908","news_102","news_22282","news_24741"],"featImg":"news_11726081","label":"news_72"},"news_11721646":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11721646","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11721646","score":null,"sort":[1548715569000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-lawmakers-seek-tax-cuts-for-sluggish-pot-industry","title":"California Lawmakers Seek Tax Cuts for Sluggish Pot Industry","publishDate":1548715569,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>A group of Democratic state lawmakers and one Republican colleague on Monday proposed slashing taxes to jump-start California's sluggish legal marijuana marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblyman Rob Bonta of Oakland, Democratic state Treasurer Fiona Ma and three other Assembly members said at a news conference that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715305/californias-year-of-legal-pot-a-mix-of-gains-growing-pains\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the state's year-old legal marijuana marketplace\u003c/a> is struggling to keep up with California's entrenched black market not encumbered by state and local taxes and time-consuming and costly regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715305/californias-year-of-legal-pot-a-mix-of-gains-growing-pains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California's Year of Legal Pot a Mix of Gains, Growing Pains\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715305/californias-year-of-legal-pot-a-mix-of-gains-growing-pains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS21427_161007_greendoor_bhs010-1180x790.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California became the largest legal U.S. marketplace, while Utah and Oklahoma embraced medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bonta said the state's legal marijuana industry is \"not occurring as we hoped, expected and wanted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed bill would for the next three years eliminate the state's $148 per pound cultivation tax on farmers and reduce the state's 15 percent excise tax on retail sales to 11 percent. A similar bill failed to clear the Democratic-controlled Assembly last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 1, 2018, California broadly legalized marijuana use for adults after overwhelming support for Proposition 64, which promised to fill state and local coffers while helping to eliminate the state's illegal operators. But far fewer licenses and tax revenues have been collected than expected and legal businesses point to the state and local taxes and red tape as the reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California officials said the state collected $234 million in taxes between January and October last year, the latest figures California Department of Tax and Fee Administration has available. Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposed budget for the fiscal year that ends June 30 estimates $355 million in annual tax revenues, a $275 million reduction from previous estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal marijuana businesses also pay local taxes not affected by the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719852/dispute-over-rules-riles-californias-legal-pot-market\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dispute Over Rules Riles California's Legal Pot Market\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714412/state-regulators-order-recall-of-hundreds-of-marijuana-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Regulators Order Recall of Hundreds of Marijuana Products\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714984/a-california-backed-marijuana-bank-state-study-says-unlikely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A California-backed Marijuana Bank? State Study Says Unlikely\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Palmdale Republican Assemblyman Tom Lackey, who signed on to the current bill, sponsored a similar measure last year that failed to pass out of the Assembly's appropriations committee last year. Democratic Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher of San Diego, the chair of the committee, said at the time she and other opponents pointed to a Legislative Analyst's Office estimated last year the cuts would reduce annual funds to the state by up to $297 million for voting no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lackey and the other lawmakers supporting the current measure said they hoped a tax cut would increase legal sales and help legitimate operators compete with the black market. Some businesses pay as much as 40 percent in combined state and local taxes, Lackey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lowering state excise taxes will help the legal marijuana industry gain a better foothold over the black market in California,\" said Ellen Komp of the pro-marijuana group California NORML. Komp also called on lawmaker to simplify the regulatory process.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The bill Assemblyman Rob Bonta of Oakland and others introduced Monday, Jan. 28, 2019 would for the next three years eliminate the state's $148 per pound cultivation tax and reduce the state's 15 percent excise tax on retail sales to 11 percent. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1548715569,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":491},"headData":{"title":"California Lawmakers Seek Tax Cuts for Sluggish Pot Industry | KQED","description":"The bill Assemblyman Rob Bonta of Oakland and others introduced Monday, Jan. 28, 2019 would for the next three years eliminate the state's $148 per pound cultivation tax and reduce the state's 15 percent excise tax on retail sales to 11 percent. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11721646 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11721646","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/01/28/california-lawmakers-seek-tax-cuts-for-sluggish-pot-industry/","disqusTitle":"California Lawmakers Seek Tax Cuts for Sluggish Pot Industry","source":"Associated Press","nprByline":"Paul Elias\u003c/br>Associated Press","path":"/news/11721646/california-lawmakers-seek-tax-cuts-for-sluggish-pot-industry","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A group of Democratic state lawmakers and one Republican colleague on Monday proposed slashing taxes to jump-start California's sluggish legal marijuana marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblyman Rob Bonta of Oakland, Democratic state Treasurer Fiona Ma and three other Assembly members said at a news conference that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715305/californias-year-of-legal-pot-a-mix-of-gains-growing-pains\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the state's year-old legal marijuana marketplace\u003c/a> is struggling to keep up with California's entrenched black market not encumbered by state and local taxes and time-consuming and costly regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715305/californias-year-of-legal-pot-a-mix-of-gains-growing-pains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California's Year of Legal Pot a Mix of Gains, Growing Pains\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715305/californias-year-of-legal-pot-a-mix-of-gains-growing-pains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS21427_161007_greendoor_bhs010-1180x790.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California became the largest legal U.S. marketplace, while Utah and Oklahoma embraced medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bonta said the state's legal marijuana industry is \"not occurring as we hoped, expected and wanted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed bill would for the next three years eliminate the state's $148 per pound cultivation tax on farmers and reduce the state's 15 percent excise tax on retail sales to 11 percent. A similar bill failed to clear the Democratic-controlled Assembly last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 1, 2018, California broadly legalized marijuana use for adults after overwhelming support for Proposition 64, which promised to fill state and local coffers while helping to eliminate the state's illegal operators. But far fewer licenses and tax revenues have been collected than expected and legal businesses point to the state and local taxes and red tape as the reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California officials said the state collected $234 million in taxes between January and October last year, the latest figures California Department of Tax and Fee Administration has available. Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposed budget for the fiscal year that ends June 30 estimates $355 million in annual tax revenues, a $275 million reduction from previous estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal marijuana businesses also pay local taxes not affected by the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719852/dispute-over-rules-riles-californias-legal-pot-market\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dispute Over Rules Riles California's Legal Pot Market\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714412/state-regulators-order-recall-of-hundreds-of-marijuana-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Regulators Order Recall of Hundreds of Marijuana Products\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714984/a-california-backed-marijuana-bank-state-study-says-unlikely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A California-backed Marijuana Bank? State Study Says Unlikely\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Palmdale Republican Assemblyman Tom Lackey, who signed on to the current bill, sponsored a similar measure last year that failed to pass out of the Assembly's appropriations committee last year. Democratic Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher of San Diego, the chair of the committee, said at the time she and other opponents pointed to a Legislative Analyst's Office estimated last year the cuts would reduce annual funds to the state by up to $297 million for voting no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lackey and the other lawmakers supporting the current measure said they hoped a tax cut would increase legal sales and help legitimate operators compete with the black market. Some businesses pay as much as 40 percent in combined state and local taxes, Lackey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lowering state excise taxes will help the legal marijuana industry gain a better foothold over the black market in California,\" said Ellen Komp of the pro-marijuana group California NORML. Komp also called on lawmaker to simplify the regulatory process.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11721646/california-lawmakers-seek-tax-cuts-for-sluggish-pot-industry","authors":["byline_news_11721646"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_457","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_24908","news_102","news_23349","news_22282","news_3674"],"featImg":"news_11721665","label":"source_news_11721646"},"news_11719852":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11719852","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11719852","score":null,"sort":[1548123909000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"dispute-over-rules-riles-californias-legal-pot-market","title":"Dispute Over Rules Riles California's Legal Pot Market","publishDate":1548123909,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>California has finalized its rules governing the nation's largest legal marijuana market, a milestone coming more than a year after the state broadly legalized cannabis sales for adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a dispute over home deliveries into communities that ban pot sales could end up in court. The hundreds of pages of dense regulations are unlikely to resolve other disputes, including how purity and potency tests are conducted for infused cookies and other products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if imperfect, the rules were welcomed by many in the industry, who have been contending with shifting temporary regulations since California kicked off broad legal sales last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715305/californias-year-of-legal-pot-a-mix-of-gains-growing-pains\">California's Year of Legal Pot a Mix of Gains, Growing Pains\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715305/californias-year-of-legal-pot-a-mix-of-gains-growing-pains\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS21423_161007_greendoor_bhs07-qut-1180x774.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Love it or hate it, California has regulations for commercial cannabis,\" said Hezekiah Allen, chair of cannabis growing cooperative Emerald Grown and former executive director of the California Growers Association, an industry group. \"There are no asterisks.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the regulations that deal with the minutia of running a legal pot business do not address other broad challenges in the industry, from a lack of banking access for pot companies that will likely need to be resolved in Washington to what to do about a thriving illicit market that is undercutting legal sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do these solve every problem that exists in the cannabis business regulatory regime? Absolutely not,\" said Assemblyman Rob Bonta, a Democrat from Oakland who said the rules nonetheless create a strong foundation for a market that has gotten off to a shaky start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By far the biggest dispute focused on deliveries. The rules released last week will allow home marijuana deliveries statewide, even into communities that have banned commercial pot sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regulation by the state Bureau of Cannabis Control was opposed by police chiefs and other critics who predict it will create an unruly market of largely hidden pot transactions, while undercutting control by cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The League of California Cities said the rule conflicts with Proposition 64, the law approved by voters in 2016 that opened the way for broad legal sales, which says local governments have the authority to ban nonmedical pot businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This decision puts the public safety needs of communities across the state at risk,\" league executive director Carolyn Coleman said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many cannabis companies and consumers had pushed for the change, since vast stretches of the state have communities that banned commercial pot activity or not set up rules to allow legal sales. That means residents in those areas were effectively cut off from legal marijuana purchases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The public spoke loud and clear in favor of statewide delivery,\" cannabis bureau spokesman Alex Traverso said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said he supports statewide deliveries for medical patients, regardless of local bans, but not recreational users. He suggested legislation may be needed to deal with the dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenny Morrison, president of the California Cannabis Manufacturers Association, said California failed to examine the experience in other states, which in turn has created costly problems for California companies with labeling and testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry officials have complained that the state rules force growers and manufacturers to hit too tiny a target when gauging levels of THC, the psychoactive chemical that causes marijuana's high, in products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rules require the THC concentration come within 10 percent of what is advertised on a product label. Company executives say some products are being rejected after landing outside the margin by small amounts, and that hitting that required range is even more difficult with low-dose products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado allows a more sensible 15-percent range, Morrison said. He said the state also should be mirroring rules set by the federal government, which could eventually oversee the national pot market. Marijuana remains illegal at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nobody cares more about the quality of the product than the manufacturer,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruben Honig, executive director of Los Angeles-based United Cannabis Business Association, said the state's biggest challenges remain cutting hefty tax rates that can approach 50 percent in some communities and cracking down on widespread illegal sales.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A dispute in California over home deliveries of cannabis into communities that ban pot sales could end up in court.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1548123920,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":676},"headData":{"title":"Dispute Over Rules Riles California's Legal Pot Market | KQED","description":"A dispute in California over home deliveries of cannabis into communities that ban pot sales could end up in court.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11719852 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11719852","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/01/21/dispute-over-rules-riles-californias-legal-pot-market/","disqusTitle":"Dispute Over Rules Riles California's Legal Pot Market","source":"Associated Press","nprByline":"Michael R. Blood\u003cbr>Associated Press","path":"/news/11719852/dispute-over-rules-riles-californias-legal-pot-market","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California has finalized its rules governing the nation's largest legal marijuana market, a milestone coming more than a year after the state broadly legalized cannabis sales for adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a dispute over home deliveries into communities that ban pot sales could end up in court. The hundreds of pages of dense regulations are unlikely to resolve other disputes, including how purity and potency tests are conducted for infused cookies and other products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if imperfect, the rules were welcomed by many in the industry, who have been contending with shifting temporary regulations since California kicked off broad legal sales last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715305/californias-year-of-legal-pot-a-mix-of-gains-growing-pains\">California's Year of Legal Pot a Mix of Gains, Growing Pains\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715305/californias-year-of-legal-pot-a-mix-of-gains-growing-pains\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS21423_161007_greendoor_bhs07-qut-1180x774.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Love it or hate it, California has regulations for commercial cannabis,\" said Hezekiah Allen, chair of cannabis growing cooperative Emerald Grown and former executive director of the California Growers Association, an industry group. \"There are no asterisks.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the regulations that deal with the minutia of running a legal pot business do not address other broad challenges in the industry, from a lack of banking access for pot companies that will likely need to be resolved in Washington to what to do about a thriving illicit market that is undercutting legal sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do these solve every problem that exists in the cannabis business regulatory regime? Absolutely not,\" said Assemblyman Rob Bonta, a Democrat from Oakland who said the rules nonetheless create a strong foundation for a market that has gotten off to a shaky start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By far the biggest dispute focused on deliveries. The rules released last week will allow home marijuana deliveries statewide, even into communities that have banned commercial pot sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regulation by the state Bureau of Cannabis Control was opposed by police chiefs and other critics who predict it will create an unruly market of largely hidden pot transactions, while undercutting control by cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The League of California Cities said the rule conflicts with Proposition 64, the law approved by voters in 2016 that opened the way for broad legal sales, which says local governments have the authority to ban nonmedical pot businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This decision puts the public safety needs of communities across the state at risk,\" league executive director Carolyn Coleman said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many cannabis companies and consumers had pushed for the change, since vast stretches of the state have communities that banned commercial pot activity or not set up rules to allow legal sales. That means residents in those areas were effectively cut off from legal marijuana purchases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The public spoke loud and clear in favor of statewide delivery,\" cannabis bureau spokesman Alex Traverso said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said he supports statewide deliveries for medical patients, regardless of local bans, but not recreational users. He suggested legislation may be needed to deal with the dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenny Morrison, president of the California Cannabis Manufacturers Association, said California failed to examine the experience in other states, which in turn has created costly problems for California companies with labeling and testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry officials have complained that the state rules force growers and manufacturers to hit too tiny a target when gauging levels of THC, the psychoactive chemical that causes marijuana's high, in products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rules require the THC concentration come within 10 percent of what is advertised on a product label. Company executives say some products are being rejected after landing outside the margin by small amounts, and that hitting that required range is even more difficult with low-dose products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado allows a more sensible 15-percent range, Morrison said. He said the state also should be mirroring rules set by the federal government, which could eventually oversee the national pot market. Marijuana remains illegal at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nobody cares more about the quality of the product than the manufacturer,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruben Honig, executive director of Los Angeles-based United Cannabis Business Association, said the state's biggest challenges remain cutting hefty tax rates that can approach 50 percent in some communities and cracking down on widespread illegal sales.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11719852/dispute-over-rules-riles-californias-legal-pot-market","authors":["byline_news_11719852"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_19963","news_22096","news_21926","news_102","news_18584","news_431","news_22282","news_24859"],"featImg":"news_11719855","label":"source_news_11719852"},"news_11715305":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11715305","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11715305","score":null,"sort":[1546209053000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"californias-year-of-legal-pot-a-mix-of-gains-growing-pains","title":"California's Year of Legal Pot a Mix of Gains, Growing Pains","publishDate":1546209053,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>It was supposed to be a great year for marijuana entrepreneur Brian Blatz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California broadly legalized pot on Jan. 1, the lawyer with a background in banking and health care had been working for a year to set up a trucking company that would whisk fragrant marijuana buds, infused juices and other products from fields and production plants to store shelves.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714412/state-regulators-order-recall-of-hundreds-of-marijuana-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Regulators Order Recall of Hundreds of Marijuana Products\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712948/higher-percentage-of-california-pot-passing-safety-tests-but-concerns-remain-over-testing-integrity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Higher Percentage of California Pot Passing Safety Tests, but Concerns Remain Over Testing Integrity\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711085/regulators-pot-deliveries-can-be-made-throughout-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regulators: Pot Deliveries Can be Made Throughout California\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>On its website, Long Beach-based Verdant Distribution said the company's goal was to be the United States' pre-eminent business for transporting cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's all gone. The trucks were sold to cover debt, a warehouse vacated, its license expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The choppy rollout of California's legal market saddled the company with costly delays, but it was undone by an abrupt state rule change that allowed just about any marijuana business to become its own distributor, undercutting the need for stand-alone companies like Verdant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California's emerging market, \"the challenges are tremendous,\" said Blatz, who is now advising clients in the fledgling industry. \"Suddenly, the whole game changes on you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a nation increasingly embracing legal cannabis, California stands out as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/8a02e30a432740d0bb4a15005cd68640\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the country's biggest pot shop\u003c/a>. Top-shelf marijuana, concentrates, balms and munchies are being produced and sold. Some companies are doing well, especially those with deep pockets that can handle the market's twists and turns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many are not. And some, like Blatz's company, already are casualties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At year's end, California's effort to transform its longstanding illegal and medicinal marijuana markets into a unified, multibillion-dollar industry remains a work in progress. It's a mix of success stories, struggles and crashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The illegal market continues to flourish — by some estimates, up to 80 percent of the sales in the state still are under the table, snatching profits from legal storefronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With many communities banning marijuana sales, limiting the number of licenses or simply not creating rules for the legal market to operate, the supply chain is fragile, leaving some shops with sparsely stocked shelves. A battle over home deliveries of pot in communities that have banned marijuana businesses could end up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS4903_marajuanasales-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"State regulators get credit for taking on the massive job of transforming the longstanding illegal and medicinal marijuana markets into a unified, multibillion-dollar industry, but the results have been mixed. Some companies are doing well, but many others are not.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11715311\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State regulators get credit for taking on the massive job of transforming the longstanding illegal and medicinal marijuana markets into a unified, multibillion-dollar industry, but the results have been mixed. Some companies are doing well, but many others are not. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A promised state tax windfall has yet to arrive, while businesses complain about hefty tax rates that can approach 50 percent in some communities. The number of testing labs remains tight. Meanwhile, shifting rules and start-up costs are taking a toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, where the pace of licensing has lagged, Adam Spiker, who heads an industry group, summed up the condition of most companies with one word, \"Pain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says tax rates need to be cut to entice buyers into the legal market, and the city needs to rapidly expand the number of licenses for shops to sell cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The encouraging sign, the state is open for business,\" said Spiker, executive director of the Southern California Coalition. But \"if you have limited access to retail, that's going to force a lot of companies to fail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year into broad legal sales, \"no one has it figured out in California,\" he said. \"It's so new, so big, so turbulent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, California treats cannabis like alcohol, allowing people 21 and older to legally possess up to an ounce and grow six marijuana plants at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's emerged is a patchwork. Marijuana farms proliferate in Santa Barbara County and legal pot shops are never far away in San Francisco. But other places ban all commercial marijuana activity, or allow cultivation but not sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's top pot regulator, Lori Ajax, said her goal in 2019 will be to get more licensed businesses in the marketplace, while increasing enforcement against illegal operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the fortunate ones has been Arizona-based Harvest Health & Recreation, which has operations in a dozen states and over 400 employees, including in California, and recently started trading on the Canadian stock exchange. By the end of next year, the company expects to have at least 20 retail shops in California, a manufacturing plant and a statewide distribution system.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714984/a-california-backed-marijuana-bank-state-study-says-unlikely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A California-backed Marijuana Bank? State Study Says Unlikely\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714984/a-california-backed-marijuana-bank-state-study-says-unlikely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS25526_GettyImages-542220918-qut-1180x785.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California would likely lose money and face insurmountable federal hurdles if it tried to create a state-backed bank for the marijuana industry, according to a report by the state treasurer.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Company president Steve Gutterman praised the state's efforts to open the legal market — the consumer is getting quality, safe products. But he said he'd welcome a more aggressive push against illegal operators, and pot companies need access to banking — most financial institutions won't do business with cannabis companies because it remains illegal at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There has been good and bad,\" he said, but, \"California is a great place for us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not the case for many retail businesses in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drive through California's largest city and there are plenty of shops and billboards advertising pot sales, and some businesses provide Apple store-like settings to pick from buds with names like Blue Dream and Chocolate Gelato.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the number of shops is part of the problem — hundreds are illegal. Here, and elsewhere, the illicit market that thrived for decades continues to do robust business, often in plain sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police do periodic crackdowns on individual businesses, but it barely makes a dent in the illicit marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to Los Angeles officials in November, the United Cannabis Business Association said legal shops are struggling to keep their doors open while illegal storefronts flourish, selling products for as much as 50 percent below legal rivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those illegal shops \"do not pay taxes, do not pay the cost of ... city and state regulations, and do not follow required worker protections,\" wrote the group, which represents legal retailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larger companies can weather the transition to the legal market — some say government rules favor them — but smaller operators are taking out second and third mortgages, industry experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In L.A., \"we are seeing a regulated industry that is bleeding out,\" said Ruben Hoing, the business group's executive director.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California became the largest legal U.S. marketplace, while Utah and Oklahoma embraced medical marijuana.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1546206104,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1094},"headData":{"title":"California's Year of Legal Pot a Mix of Gains, Growing Pains | KQED","description":"California became the largest legal U.S. marketplace, while Utah and Oklahoma embraced medical marijuana.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11715305 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11715305","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/12/30/californias-year-of-legal-pot-a-mix-of-gains-growing-pains/","disqusTitle":"California's Year of Legal Pot a Mix of Gains, Growing Pains","source":"Associated Press","nprByline":"Michael R. Blood\u003c/br>Associated Press","path":"/news/11715305/californias-year-of-legal-pot-a-mix-of-gains-growing-pains","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It was supposed to be a great year for marijuana entrepreneur Brian Blatz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California broadly legalized pot on Jan. 1, the lawyer with a background in banking and health care had been working for a year to set up a trucking company that would whisk fragrant marijuana buds, infused juices and other products from fields and production plants to store shelves.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714412/state-regulators-order-recall-of-hundreds-of-marijuana-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Regulators Order Recall of Hundreds of Marijuana Products\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712948/higher-percentage-of-california-pot-passing-safety-tests-but-concerns-remain-over-testing-integrity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Higher Percentage of California Pot Passing Safety Tests, but Concerns Remain Over Testing Integrity\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711085/regulators-pot-deliveries-can-be-made-throughout-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regulators: Pot Deliveries Can be Made Throughout California\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>On its website, Long Beach-based Verdant Distribution said the company's goal was to be the United States' pre-eminent business for transporting cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's all gone. The trucks were sold to cover debt, a warehouse vacated, its license expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The choppy rollout of California's legal market saddled the company with costly delays, but it was undone by an abrupt state rule change that allowed just about any marijuana business to become its own distributor, undercutting the need for stand-alone companies like Verdant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California's emerging market, \"the challenges are tremendous,\" said Blatz, who is now advising clients in the fledgling industry. \"Suddenly, the whole game changes on you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a nation increasingly embracing legal cannabis, California stands out as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/8a02e30a432740d0bb4a15005cd68640\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the country's biggest pot shop\u003c/a>. Top-shelf marijuana, concentrates, balms and munchies are being produced and sold. Some companies are doing well, especially those with deep pockets that can handle the market's twists and turns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many are not. And some, like Blatz's company, already are casualties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At year's end, California's effort to transform its longstanding illegal and medicinal marijuana markets into a unified, multibillion-dollar industry remains a work in progress. It's a mix of success stories, struggles and crashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The illegal market continues to flourish — by some estimates, up to 80 percent of the sales in the state still are under the table, snatching profits from legal storefronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With many communities banning marijuana sales, limiting the number of licenses or simply not creating rules for the legal market to operate, the supply chain is fragile, leaving some shops with sparsely stocked shelves. A battle over home deliveries of pot in communities that have banned marijuana businesses could end up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS4903_marajuanasales-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"State regulators get credit for taking on the massive job of transforming the longstanding illegal and medicinal marijuana markets into a unified, multibillion-dollar industry, but the results have been mixed. Some companies are doing well, but many others are not.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11715311\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State regulators get credit for taking on the massive job of transforming the longstanding illegal and medicinal marijuana markets into a unified, multibillion-dollar industry, but the results have been mixed. Some companies are doing well, but many others are not. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A promised state tax windfall has yet to arrive, while businesses complain about hefty tax rates that can approach 50 percent in some communities. The number of testing labs remains tight. Meanwhile, shifting rules and start-up costs are taking a toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, where the pace of licensing has lagged, Adam Spiker, who heads an industry group, summed up the condition of most companies with one word, \"Pain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says tax rates need to be cut to entice buyers into the legal market, and the city needs to rapidly expand the number of licenses for shops to sell cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The encouraging sign, the state is open for business,\" said Spiker, executive director of the Southern California Coalition. But \"if you have limited access to retail, that's going to force a lot of companies to fail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year into broad legal sales, \"no one has it figured out in California,\" he said. \"It's so new, so big, so turbulent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, California treats cannabis like alcohol, allowing people 21 and older to legally possess up to an ounce and grow six marijuana plants at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's emerged is a patchwork. Marijuana farms proliferate in Santa Barbara County and legal pot shops are never far away in San Francisco. But other places ban all commercial marijuana activity, or allow cultivation but not sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's top pot regulator, Lori Ajax, said her goal in 2019 will be to get more licensed businesses in the marketplace, while increasing enforcement against illegal operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the fortunate ones has been Arizona-based Harvest Health & Recreation, which has operations in a dozen states and over 400 employees, including in California, and recently started trading on the Canadian stock exchange. By the end of next year, the company expects to have at least 20 retail shops in California, a manufacturing plant and a statewide distribution system.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714984/a-california-backed-marijuana-bank-state-study-says-unlikely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A California-backed Marijuana Bank? State Study Says Unlikely\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714984/a-california-backed-marijuana-bank-state-study-says-unlikely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS25526_GettyImages-542220918-qut-1180x785.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California would likely lose money and face insurmountable federal hurdles if it tried to create a state-backed bank for the marijuana industry, according to a report by the state treasurer.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Company president Steve Gutterman praised the state's efforts to open the legal market — the consumer is getting quality, safe products. But he said he'd welcome a more aggressive push against illegal operators, and pot companies need access to banking — most financial institutions won't do business with cannabis companies because it remains illegal at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There has been good and bad,\" he said, but, \"California is a great place for us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not the case for many retail businesses in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drive through California's largest city and there are plenty of shops and billboards advertising pot sales, and some businesses provide Apple store-like settings to pick from buds with names like Blue Dream and Chocolate Gelato.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the number of shops is part of the problem — hundreds are illegal. Here, and elsewhere, the illicit market that thrived for decades continues to do robust business, often in plain sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police do periodic crackdowns on individual businesses, but it barely makes a dent in the illicit marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to Los Angeles officials in November, the United Cannabis Business Association said legal shops are struggling to keep their doors open while illegal storefronts flourish, selling products for as much as 50 percent below legal rivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those illegal shops \"do not pay taxes, do not pay the cost of ... city and state regulations, and do not follow required worker protections,\" wrote the group, which represents legal retailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larger companies can weather the transition to the legal market — some say government rules favor them — but smaller operators are taking out second and third mortgages, industry experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In L.A., \"we are seeing a regulated industry that is bleeding out,\" said Ruben Hoing, the business group's executive director.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11715305/californias-year-of-legal-pot-a-mix-of-gains-growing-pains","authors":["byline_news_11715305"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_457","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_102","news_22282"],"featImg":"news_11715308","label":"source_news_11715305"},"news_11714412":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11714412","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11714412","score":null,"sort":[1545500859000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"state-regulators-order-recall-of-hundreds-of-marijuana-products","title":"State Regulators Order Recall of Hundreds of Marijuana Products","publishDate":1545500859,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The California Bureau of Cannabis Control is asking that nearly 850 batches tested by Sacramento-based Sequoia Analytical Labs be either destroyed or re-tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712948/higher-percentage-of-california-pot-passing-safety-tests-but-concerns-remain-over-testing-integrity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sequoia Labs\u003c/a> surrendered their testing license in late November after state officials discovered that their lab director, Marc Foster, had been falsifying test results. Sequoia is required by law to check for 66 pesticides and Foster was passing samples that had not been tested for 22 of those pesticides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-nine companies have been named in the recall. In the letter, state officials said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If you have sold batches that were tested for regulatory compliance by Sequoia Analytical Labs after June 30, 2018, please contact all consumers who purchased cannabis goods from these batches and allow consumers to return the cannabis goods. All cannabis goods returned by customers or remaining in your inventory from these batches, must be destroyed, or returned to the distributor from whom the batch was received. For cannabis goods remaining in your inventory, a licensed distributor may arrange for the remaining portions of the batches to be re-sampled and re-tested to determine if the cannabis goods can be sold.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Marijuana products go through several stages of testing for research and development purposes as well as for their \u003ca href=\"https://govt.westlaw.com/calregs/Document/I597638ED37094A9688A983E830208DD3?viewType=FullText&originationContext=documenttoc&transitionType=CategoryPageItem&contextData=(sc.Default)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">certificate of analysis\u003c/a>, which allows the product to be sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When these tests are not performed accurately, you're endangering consumers,\" says Tony Daniel, the chief revenue officer at the Berkeley-based Steep Hill Labs. \"In the broader sense, you're undermining this nascent industry that's just getting off the ground.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714429\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11714429\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Company-List-better-800x1582.jpg\" alt=\"29 companies have been named in the recall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1582\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Company-List-better-800x1582.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Company-List-better-160x316.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Company-List-better-607x1200.jpg 607w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Company-List-better.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marijuana companies named in the recall from products tested by Sequoia Labs. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Bureau of Cannabis Control)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Golden Barn CA co-founder Brendan McKee says he and another co-founder were on their way to Sequoia to deliver a sample for certificate of analysis testing when the Bureau of Cannabis Control shut down the lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were one of the fortunate people who were just doing R&D testing with them at that time,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall could have a drastic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/443119/pot-businesses-urge-california-to-delay-strict-testing-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">financial impact on marijuana companies\u003c/a>, who will have to pay for the loss of product or to have it re-tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think obviously there's a financial burden with having to pay for the re-test of our products,\" says Sophia Herrera, the director of compliance for Connected Cannabis Co., which had over 100 products impacted by the recall. \"Fortunately, [Sequoia Labs] has offered to connect us with their insurance to recoup some of those fees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to McKee, the shutdown of the lab will also hurt an industry that's struggling to find enough labs to accommodate California's rigid guidelines. There are just 52 licensed labs and almost 1,000 distributors, all of which must get tested before their products can go out to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's 7,000-plus cultivation licenses that have already been given out,\" he said. \"There's a need for way more testing, so it'll be interesting to see how the industry handles that in 2019.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators don't know for sure whether or not the products contain any of these pesticides, but have recalled them as a cautionary measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, McKee points out that if you smoked any pot prior to its legalization, it likely had pesticides in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're getting cannabis in the California market right now, you're smoking unquestionably the cleanest cannabis that's ever been smoked by humans,\" says McKee. \"It's over-the-top scrutinized. Everything gets tested so many time, it's almost a little ridiculous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5663176-Sequoia-Analytical-Labs-Tested-Products-List.html\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The recall could have a big financial impact on the marijuana industry and on the companies who now have to pay for their product to be re-tested or destroyed. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1545447301,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":617},"headData":{"title":"State Regulators Order Recall of Hundreds of Marijuana Products | KQED","description":"The recall could have a big financial impact on the marijuana industry and on the companies who now have to pay for their product to be re-tested or destroyed. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11714412 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11714412","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/12/22/state-regulators-order-recall-of-hundreds-of-marijuana-products/","disqusTitle":"State Regulators Order Recall of Hundreds of Marijuana Products","path":"/news/11714412/state-regulators-order-recall-of-hundreds-of-marijuana-products","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The California Bureau of Cannabis Control is asking that nearly 850 batches tested by Sacramento-based Sequoia Analytical Labs be either destroyed or re-tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712948/higher-percentage-of-california-pot-passing-safety-tests-but-concerns-remain-over-testing-integrity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sequoia Labs\u003c/a> surrendered their testing license in late November after state officials discovered that their lab director, Marc Foster, had been falsifying test results. Sequoia is required by law to check for 66 pesticides and Foster was passing samples that had not been tested for 22 of those pesticides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-nine companies have been named in the recall. In the letter, state officials said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If you have sold batches that were tested for regulatory compliance by Sequoia Analytical Labs after June 30, 2018, please contact all consumers who purchased cannabis goods from these batches and allow consumers to return the cannabis goods. All cannabis goods returned by customers or remaining in your inventory from these batches, must be destroyed, or returned to the distributor from whom the batch was received. For cannabis goods remaining in your inventory, a licensed distributor may arrange for the remaining portions of the batches to be re-sampled and re-tested to determine if the cannabis goods can be sold.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Marijuana products go through several stages of testing for research and development purposes as well as for their \u003ca href=\"https://govt.westlaw.com/calregs/Document/I597638ED37094A9688A983E830208DD3?viewType=FullText&originationContext=documenttoc&transitionType=CategoryPageItem&contextData=(sc.Default)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">certificate of analysis\u003c/a>, which allows the product to be sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When these tests are not performed accurately, you're endangering consumers,\" says Tony Daniel, the chief revenue officer at the Berkeley-based Steep Hill Labs. \"In the broader sense, you're undermining this nascent industry that's just getting off the ground.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714429\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11714429\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Company-List-better-800x1582.jpg\" alt=\"29 companies have been named in the recall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1582\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Company-List-better-800x1582.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Company-List-better-160x316.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Company-List-better-607x1200.jpg 607w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Company-List-better.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marijuana companies named in the recall from products tested by Sequoia Labs. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Bureau of Cannabis Control)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Golden Barn CA co-founder Brendan McKee says he and another co-founder were on their way to Sequoia to deliver a sample for certificate of analysis testing when the Bureau of Cannabis Control shut down the lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were one of the fortunate people who were just doing R&D testing with them at that time,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall could have a drastic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/443119/pot-businesses-urge-california-to-delay-strict-testing-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">financial impact on marijuana companies\u003c/a>, who will have to pay for the loss of product or to have it re-tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think obviously there's a financial burden with having to pay for the re-test of our products,\" says Sophia Herrera, the director of compliance for Connected Cannabis Co., which had over 100 products impacted by the recall. \"Fortunately, [Sequoia Labs] has offered to connect us with their insurance to recoup some of those fees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to McKee, the shutdown of the lab will also hurt an industry that's struggling to find enough labs to accommodate California's rigid guidelines. There are just 52 licensed labs and almost 1,000 distributors, all of which must get tested before their products can go out to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's 7,000-plus cultivation licenses that have already been given out,\" he said. \"There's a need for way more testing, so it'll be interesting to see how the industry handles that in 2019.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators don't know for sure whether or not the products contain any of these pesticides, but have recalled them as a cautionary measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, McKee points out that if you smoked any pot prior to its legalization, it likely had pesticides in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're getting cannabis in the California market right now, you're smoking unquestionably the cleanest cannabis that's ever been smoked by humans,\" says McKee. \"It's over-the-top scrutinized. 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The rules will become law in 30 days unless California's Office of Administrative Law objects. The dispute could end up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recreational marijuana became legal in the state after voters passed Proposition 64 two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau has maintained that Proposition 64 allows for statewide deliveries. It added explicit language authorizing the practice after several law enforcement officials in anti-pot locales insisted they could arrest licensed deliver drivers in cities and counties that ban marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Police Chiefs Association, League of California Cities and United Food and Commercial Workers Western States Council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686775/some-california-cities-fight-to-ban-pot-deliveries\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opposed statewide deliveries\u003c/a> and launched an online petition campaign against the rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Regulated marijuana dispensaries have tough security, checks for identity and legal age and strictly licensed workers,\" council executive director James Araby said in a statement. \"If marijuana can be delivered anywhere with virtually no regulation, California will lose these safeguards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>League of Cities spokeswoman Adrienne Sprenger said the agency was waiting to see if the Office of Administrative Law approves the proposal before deciding its next step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of statewide deliveries argued that sick and frail people in those areas who depend on marijuana to relieve pain or anxiety cannot make a lengthy drive for a purchase, so they are being shut out of the legal market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal also included a ban on permit holders partnering with unlicensed operators, which industry supporters said will stifle growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau in its comments explaining the added rule said it's concerned about such partnerships doing business in the black market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Cannabis Industry Association spokesman Josh Drayton said most California cities and counties have exerted local control and don't allow marijuana, making it impossible for a business such as a beverage maker or nutritional supplement manufacturer to partner with a legal marijuana operator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the bureau's stand against unlicensed operators went too far and will hurt the nascent industry by unintentionally preventing such things as non-licensed celebrities endorsing products and other deals not directly involving marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The industry has slowed down enough already without this added hurdle,\" Drayton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Food and Agriculture, which regulates farmers, also released its draft regulations which would continue to allow farmers to receive an unlimited number of permits to grow pot.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Three state agencies released proposed regulations Friday, Dec. 7, 2018, for the state's marijuana industry.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1544321307,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":481},"headData":{"title":"Regulators: Pot Deliveries Can be Made Throughout California | KQED","description":"Three state agencies released proposed regulations Friday, Dec. 7, 2018, for the state's marijuana industry.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11711085 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11711085","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/12/08/regulators-pot-deliveries-can-be-made-throughout-california/","disqusTitle":"Regulators: Pot Deliveries Can be Made Throughout California","source":"Associated Press","nprByline":"Paul Elias\u003c/br>Associated Press","path":"/news/11711085/regulators-pot-deliveries-can-be-made-throughout-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California regulators on Friday said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700232/california-rolling-forward-with-pot-delivery-regulations\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">marijuana deliveries\u003c/a> can be made anywhere in the state, even in locales that ban cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement groups and the California League of Cities opposed the move, arguing that pot deliveries to places that ban cannabis erode local government control and will increase crime in those areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The matter has been one of the most debated issues as state regulators hammer out permanent rules for how marijuana is grown, tested, packaged and delivered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delivery issue was included in regulations drafted by the Bureau of Cannabis Control, which issues most retail permits. The rules will become law in 30 days unless California's Office of Administrative Law objects. The dispute could end up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recreational marijuana became legal in the state after voters passed Proposition 64 two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau has maintained that Proposition 64 allows for statewide deliveries. It added explicit language authorizing the practice after several law enforcement officials in anti-pot locales insisted they could arrest licensed deliver drivers in cities and counties that ban marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Police Chiefs Association, League of California Cities and United Food and Commercial Workers Western States Council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686775/some-california-cities-fight-to-ban-pot-deliveries\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opposed statewide deliveries\u003c/a> and launched an online petition campaign against the rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Regulated marijuana dispensaries have tough security, checks for identity and legal age and strictly licensed workers,\" council executive director James Araby said in a statement. \"If marijuana can be delivered anywhere with virtually no regulation, California will lose these safeguards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>League of Cities spokeswoman Adrienne Sprenger said the agency was waiting to see if the Office of Administrative Law approves the proposal before deciding its next step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of statewide deliveries argued that sick and frail people in those areas who depend on marijuana to relieve pain or anxiety cannot make a lengthy drive for a purchase, so they are being shut out of the legal market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal also included a ban on permit holders partnering with unlicensed operators, which industry supporters said will stifle growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau in its comments explaining the added rule said it's concerned about such partnerships doing business in the black market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Cannabis Industry Association spokesman Josh Drayton said most California cities and counties have exerted local control and don't allow marijuana, making it impossible for a business such as a beverage maker or nutritional supplement manufacturer to partner with a legal marijuana operator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the bureau's stand against unlicensed operators went too far and will hurt the nascent industry by unintentionally preventing such things as non-licensed celebrities endorsing products and other deals not directly involving marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The industry has slowed down enough already without this added hurdle,\" Drayton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Food and Agriculture, which regulates farmers, also released its draft regulations which would continue to allow farmers to receive an unlimited number of permits to grow pot.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11711085/regulators-pot-deliveries-can-be-made-throughout-california","authors":["byline_news_11711085"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_24626","news_102","news_22282"],"featImg":"news_11711086","label":"source_news_11711085"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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