Over a Dozen Cannabis Bills Move Forward in California Legislature
To survive in the 2024 California Legislative Session, May 24 was the deadline for bills to be passed out of their chamber of origin (Assembly or Senate), and it appears over a dozen cannabis bills have crossed this threshold by the May 24 deadline. These bills include: These bills must now make it through the […]
State Auditor Finds Local Cannabis Permitting Practices Need Improvement
Late last week, California State Auditor Grant Parks released the results of an audit requested last year in the wake of a sprawling cannabis permitting corruption scandal in Southern California. Coming on the heels of January’s two federal guilty pleas for bribery in the Bay Area, this audit confirms how improvement is needed at the […]
California Cities Focus on Fortifying Legal Cannabis Commerce
Up and down the state, city governments have taken steps recently to expand access to cannabis, promote cannabis social equity, and reduce the tax burden on commercial cannabis operators, demonstrating steady, if incremental, fortification of the legal cannabis economy in California. In response to SB 1186 (2022), which took effect on January 1 and prohibits […]
Hemp Products, Cannabis Cafes, and Worker Rights Legislation are Among the Cannabis Bills Set Before the California Legislature in 2024
In the 2024 legislative session, legislators are set to consider over a dozen bills addressing the cannabis industry in California. Some of these bills, like AB 3165 (to make a non-substantive change regarding local authority) and AB 2850 (to make a non-substantive change to Health & Safety Code Section 11358 regarding the 6-plant rule), seek […]
Medicinal Cannabis Retail Premises Remain Prohibited Throughout Most of California
More than a year after Governor Newsom signed SB 1186, the Medicinal Cannabis Patients’ Right of Access Act, and over six months after the Department of Cannabis Control announced $4 million in grants to 18 local jurisdictions under the Local Jurisdiction Retail Access Grant (LJRAG) program, sixty-percent (60%) of California’s local jurisdictions continue to prohibit […]
California Adopts Emergency Regulation to Clarify “Gross Receipts” for Cannabis Excise Tax
On November 27, 2023, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration proposed Emergency Regulation 3802 for immediate adoption to address issues identified by the Department related to calculating “gross receipts” for purposes of applying California’s 15% cannabis excise tax. To take immediate effect, the Department adopted Regulation 3802 to address: (1) the issue regarding […]
Newsom Signs Fourteen Cannabis Bills into California Law
California Governor Gavin Newsom took his final actions of the 2023 legislative session yesterday, October 13, ending the law-making year by signing a total of fourteen (14) cannabis-related bills into law. Here are the new cannabis laws in California at the culmination of this year’s legislative session:
California Legislature Sends Sixteen Cannabis Bills to Governor Newsom
The California Legislature ended its legislative session on September 14 and sent sixteen (16) cannabis-related bills to Governor Newsom for signature, one of which, SB 756 (Laird) relating to inspections of unlicensed cannabis cultivation sites, has already been signed into law. Also sponsored by Senator Laird, SB 540 (Laird), would require the Department of Cannabis […]
Are California Cities and Counties Ready for the Medicinal Cannabis Patients’ Right of Access Act?
California law changes on January 1 to outlaw prohibitions on medicinal delivery-only cannabis retail businesses.
San Francisco Cannabis Oversight Committee Up and Running Again
Shay reports on today’s San Francisco Cannabis Oversight Committee meeting.
Shay Appointed to San Francisco Cannabis Oversight Committee
On June 6, 2023, the City and County of San Francisco Board of Supervisors appointed Shay to serve in Seat 14 on the San Francisco Cannabis Oversight Committee. Per the San Francisco Administrative Code, Seat 14 must be held by a person with demonstrated subject matter expertise in California’s cannabis laws and regulations. The purpose […]
California Cannabis Social Equity and the Dormant Commerce Clause
As California takes steps toward interstate commerce for cannabis, the dormant Commerce Clause to the United States Constitution can potentially interfere with many state and local social equity provisions designed to ameliorate the damage caused by the War on Drugs. In this article for the Daily Journal published on April 27, Shay takes a look […]
Shay Speaks with Alameda County Lawyer Podcaster Louis Goodman
Shay recently sat down with Louis Goodman, a lawyer podcaster focused on Alameda County California attorneys, to discuss the practice of law in California and the practice of cannabis law in particular. Click the below link for a stream of the interview: https://www.louisgoodman.com/shay-gilmore-louis-goodman-transcript/ Source: https://www.lovethylawyer.com/reefer-sanity-acba-shay-gilmore-ut-austin/
Local Bans Encourage Illicit Market
According to data compiled by Whitney Economics and the online content provider Leafly.com, U.S. states with fewer licensed cannabis retail stores per capita are less effective at disrupting illicit market sales than are jurisdictions where shops are more widely available. The report estimates, “States with roughly 20 to 40 legal regulated stores per 100,000 residents, […]
Shay to Co-Moderate Cannabis Social Equity Panel on September 28
Join Shay as he co-moderates, with San Francisco Office of Cannabis Associate Director of Enforcement, Tanisha Gooch, on September 28 a panel presented by the Cannabis Law Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco to discuss Cannabis Social Equity in Northern California. Eugene Hillsman, the California Department of Cannabis Control Deputy Director of Equity […]