aBIZinaBOX Online Shopping Cart

Your cart is currently empty.

Procedural Hurdles for Washington Marijuana Businesses October 23, 2018

Regulatory challenges can be substantive or procedural. Substantive challenges include things like Washington’s ban on out of state ownership and its view that licensee royalty payment constitute profit-sharing. These types of rules and interpretations are challenging because, as a policy matter, businesses aren’t allowed to pursue certain strategies that they otherwise would. Procedural challenges, on...

What You Need to Know Now: BCC Drops Revised, Proposed, Permanent Cannabis Rules October 22, 2018

Last Friday, we wrote about the amended proposed permanent cannabis regulations that are now in a 15-day notice-and-comment period for each California agency—the Bureau of Cannabis Control (“BCC”), Department of Public Health (“DPH”), and Department of Food and Agriculture (“DFA”). Each of the proposed rules can be found here, here, and here. The next round...

California’s Proposed Modified Cannabis Regulations Could Prohibit Intellectual Property Licensing (!) October 21, 2018

On Friday, the California Bureau of Cannabis Control, California Department of Public Health, and California Department of Food and Agriculture issued 15-day notices of modification to the texts of their respective proposed regulations. The California Cannabis Portal has published links to each notice and the modified texts of the proposed regulations. For each set, the...