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The Department of Cannabis Control (formerly the Bureau of Cannabis Control, originally established as Bureau of Marijuana Control under Proposition 64, [1] [2] formerly the Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation [3] [4]) is an agency of the State of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs, charged with regulating medical cannabis (MMJ) in accordance with state law pursuant to the ...
Cannabis regulatory agencies exist in several of the U.S. states and territories, the one federal district, and several areas under tribal sovereignty in the United States which have legalized cannabis. In November 2020, 19 state agencies formed the Cannabis Regulators Association.
Cannabis in California has been legal for medical use since 1996, and for recreational use since late 2016. The state of California has been at the forefront of efforts to liberalize cannabis laws in the United States, beginning in 1972 with the nation's first ballot initiative attempting to legalize cannabis (Proposition 19).
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2188 into law in 2022, banning employers from firing, penalizing or creating employment conditions for workers based on cannabis use off the job ...
You can smoke weed on private property including your own backyard, according to the California Department of Cannabis Control website. You cannot smoke weed: In public places such as restaurants ...
DEA began the program in 1979 during the War on Drugs. In the first few years of the Reagan administration, the program expanded from seven states to forty. [1] By 1985 it was active in all fifty states. [2] Results of the program vary by locality. In 2015, agents pulled 2.6 million cannabis plants in California, 27 in New Hampshire, and zero ...
Industry insiders say the move, if approved, could become a lifeline to California's struggling cannabis industry. "We've been anticipating this," said Meital Manzuri, an attorney whose firm ...
California Senate Bill 420 (colloquially known as the Medical Marijuana Program Act) [1] was a bill introduced by John Vasconcellos of the California State Senate, and subsequently passed by the California State Legislature and signed by Governor Gray Davis in 2003 "pursuant to the powers reserved to the State of California and its people under the Tenth Amendment to the United States ...