“Today, the Wild West era of medical cannabis came to an end, and a new era of responsible regulation has begun”, said United Food and Commercial Workers Western States Council Executive Director Jim Araby, whose union lobbied for employment standards in the bills.
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Brown’s endorsement of the sweeping package came nearly two decades after California legalized medical marijuana – a period in which cities and counties have struggled to regulate proliferating dispensaries and vast outdoor grow sites – and just over a year before a ballot measure seeking full legalization will almost certainly go before California voters.
Key to SB 643 are provisions that will track and trace all marijuana products, and a provision that will once and for all make medical marijuana officially an agricultural product in California.
Since voters passed Proposition 215 20 years ago, all attempts to regulate the medicinal marijuana industry have failed, Runner said.
AB 243 requires marijuana farmers to obtain licenses through the state Department of Food and Agriculture, and gives the state the power to fine any grower that harms a river, stream or lake. It restricts the number of licenses one company could have.
The bills will create an intricate system of testing and licensing, with different agencies tasked with overseeing everything from cultivation to transport and sale. It also charges various state agencies to develop guidelines for packaging, potency, pesticide use and advertising.
In addition, the bills preserve the right of individuals to grow small amounts of medical marijuana for personal use and allows local governments to ban or tax marijuana-related businesses.
“It was well-written. It was well thought-out”.
Medical marijuana is held to a different standard than other prescription drugs despite research suggesting it has therapeutic benefits, say three experts from the centre in a commentary publish Friday in the Journal of the Canadian Public Health Association. “They want to do what they have to do to run it like any other business”.
“The medical marijuana industry has expanded rapidly and without check in my district because direction from the state has been absent”, Wood said in a statement.
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