California’s 2026 Cannabis Bills: All Active, All in the Assembly, and a Critical Deadline Approaching
Every active 2026 California cannabis bill affecting licensed dispensaries and retailers — including AB 2532’s beverage overhaul — is now sitting in the Assembly Appropriations Committee with a hard May 15 deadline. California cannabis attorney Shay Aaron Gilmore breaks down all of the bills, their current status, who’s sponsoring them, and what operators need to do before the window closes. Read the full legislative update at shaygilmorelaw.com.
California Lawmakers Send Cannabis Bills to Newsom’s Desk, Including Excise Tax Rollback, and Hemp Products Integration
By the conclusion of the 2025 California Legislative Session this past weekend, state lawmakers had sent no fewer than five cannabis bills to Governor Newsom’s desk, including measures to rollback the cannabis excise tax, and to integrate industrial hemp products into the cannabis supply chain governed by the Medicinal and Adult Use Cannabis Regulation and […]
California Legislators Advance Bills Addressing Hemp Products, Cannabis Excise Tax, Online Marketplaces
California lawmakers in both the Assembly and Senate have moved legislation addressing cannabis and hemp issues through votes by the assigned policy committees in their respective chambers. Most critical to the financial health of the entire California regulated market, this week, AB 564 (Haney), which would retain the existing cannabis excise tax rate of 15% […]
Small Cannabis Producer Event Sales Bill Awaits California Senate Floor Vote
California cannabis cultivators are struggling with wholesale price depression from oversupply, outsized competition from the illicit cannabis market, and now losses from wildfires driven by climate change. Many cannabis farmers are surrendering cultivation licenses amid a 12% decline in the total value of all California cannabis products sold from $6 billion (in 2021) to $5.3 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]