Provisional Cannabis Licenses Will Be Issued When Temporary Licenses Expire, Says CDFA
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The Bureau of Cannabis Control, California Department of Public Health, and California Department of Food and Agriculture are taking steps to prevent gaps in licensure when active temporary commercial cannabis licenses expire.
Each licensing authority is tracking expiration dates of temporary licenses and intends to issue a provisional license to qualified temporary license holders before their current temporary license expires. To qualify for a provisional license, an applicant must:
(1) Hold or have held a temporary license for the same premises and the same commercial cannabis activity for which the provisional license will be issued; and
(2) Have submitted a completed license application to the licensing authority, which must include a document or statement indicating that California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) compliance is underway.
If you are contacted by your state licensing authority for additional information, please respond promptly so that processing of a provisional license is not delayed.
Please note that a completed application for purposes of obtaining a provisional license is not the same as a sufficient application to obtain an annual license. Licensees issued a provisional license are expected to be diligently working toward completing all annual license requirements in order to maintain a provisional license.
Temporary or provisional licensees must meet all statutory and regulatory requirements in order to receive an annual license.
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Thank goodness! Saved by the state again!!
Lol Saved by the state. Laughable. The state is selling you back your rights for a fee and didn’t do anything but sponge money from workers and give it to a bunch of government leaches
About frickin time! The CDFA has 6000 temp licenses coming up for provisional review and they are completing 100 a week max. CDFA is running the risk of destroying California’s cannabis industry in the first year of legalization, and the only reason appears to be incompetence.
Cool- so it’s basically an extension of the interim permit! That means environmental safeguards are kind of being worked out as slow as possible and no track-n trace. The only thing that is real are the fees and taxes and for that the county and state will protect your grow. You are cleared to sell all of your product into the Original Market (the interstate what they will still call “black market”). So…yeah. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong. I know a bunch of people jumping with joy at this news. They are dragging their feet on environmental upgrades, will never make it, are blowing out extra grow space and are never going to meet the requirements for a state permit. This gives them carte blanche again this year, watching the county abate their neighbors and eradicate the competition which even includes their local mom-n-pop old-timers. Sick times…but I guess they anticipated the corruption and the total inefficiency correctly…so they win!
Not to be a Debbie downer but eight new abatements posted, Dinsmore area. Each one is essentially a bust, and there needs to be more attention paid, just because there’s no convoy doesn’t mean this isn’t news…
Just checked out the addresses’ of these abatements on Google. None of these were small. Looks like the smallest one was about 15,000 square feet. Some were way bigger. I counted 12 to 13 greenhouses on a few. Some were definitely the [edit] too.
Farce, there may be cultivators who are doing what you say. BUT I know of many cultivators who have everything into the state and are waiting on the state to come through with either more steps for them to take or for them to get their permits. There are many cannabis businesses right now that had done everything requested and the state didn’t get its work done before the temporary expired so…the businesses lost their temporary permits and can’t operate. For farmers, this is a crucial time of year as you know. To not legally be able to grow now even if their permit is approved in four or five months could kill their harvest this year and quite possibly their farm forever.
I get you don’t like legality but don’t become the person who groups everyone into one basket please.
I believe if you made a pie chart with the people who are 100% trying to be legitimate (staying in their lane as I say) and the people who are using the permitting process as a safe card while they shovel as much as they can onto the traditional market, it would look much more like the way farce is describing it, rather than the way you are saying it is. That’s the way I’m seeing it.
I would say if you made three pies to represent growers that I know–there would be a very small one that represents people 100% in compliance with some very difficult and changing regulations and there would be a bigger one that represents those who are just trying to get away with whatever they can (and would likely be egregious damagers of the environment should cannabis still be illegal) and the largest pie would be those that are struggling to find their way, had hoped to be entirely legal but sometimes get desperate to make payments etc and so sell on the traditional market. These can range anywhere from very small mom and pop environmentalists to very large business folks. Three pies—saints, sinners, and the rest of humanity muddling along trying to be decent enough people and feed their families.
I agree with that. Im shocked that people who have signed up for permitting and have this given all their information to the government, would still feel safe to sell on the black market. I wonder if they fear an audit? I definitely would be worried about that sort of thing. Seems naive to imagine no one is watching.
Audits are coming. Everyone will get audited, and they will be deep and thorough.
Oh please! “Yes my permit is for 40k sf, but I had powder mildew and destroyed it all.”
That’s probably what the corrupt are banking on.
Kym- I appreciate your website and allowing me to post here. No- I do not want anybody to ever think I am calling all scenes the same! We know there are many good people on both sides of the “legalization” thing. Nothing here can be generalized to represent all. Your site and it’s comment section may be the most honest commentary on what is really happening, despite the government propaganda (that is being repeated now by consultants and invested lobbying groups). Perhaps it is a statement about who I hang around with( ha ha) but…Nearly all people I know with temporary permits are putting on the brakes with every level towards full permit. They are doing an end run around track-n-trace. They are expanding beyond their permits and fixing that later. They are grabbing what they can year by year and using this permit-protection plan to do so… And their end game is a hope that some outside entity comes to buy up their farms with or without state stamped permit. Yet they pretend to be “all about the community” and such crap. I think it is outrageous that they should be considered and protected as “good players” while the county and state ramp up a massive eradication program which includes small growers who have always grown environmentally responsible. That’s why I keep saying what I say.
As far as legalization – I would love that! But this is not. It is “legalization” or rather a regulatory system designed to enrich the government and the already rich and it will leave our county extremely depressed. My prime example would be the false claim that we can “legally” grow 6 plants. We just can’t “legally” use our own water to do so w/o inspections, fees, registration and permission from the state to use what was formerly our own water. I wish I was making this stuff up!
Totally agree, its a joke to say that you can legally grow six plants in Humboldt County. You can if you’ve got a totally permitted and up to code piece of property or hundreds of thousands of dollars jump through all the hoops.
Its a shame that Humboldt has taken such a hard line stance. The economy would be doing a lot better if everyone could have a 1000 square foot green house in their backyard.
Not to be a Debbie downer farce but if you have a provisional state license YOU ARE REQUIRED TO DO METRC! (The real deal track and trace) just posting this as an FYI
If you are right then I am wrong. I know people w/ stamped state permits who are not even doing METRC. They have taken classes and they say they will and the state says they are but but….delays, foot-dragging, excuses, etc etc. They have thrown some pounds into the system but the profits are in the back-door sales. I am open to hearing some real news from around the county but at this point I see many holes in the system that everybody is exploiting. And I understand why anybody in that position would! I’m just tired of seeing the same mega-growers who ruined our county get county protection to mega-grow and dump on the interstate market….and then turn around and blame the backyard mom n pops!!
If you only have a temporary license, you CAN’T use Metrc. https://mjbizdaily.com/confusion-california-marijuana-inventory-tracking-system-metrc/
“CCTT became operational Jan. 2, 2019, for businesses with full annual permits.
However, only about 100 companies have permanent annual licenses and are required to use the system, while hundreds of businesses with temporary licenses are not.”
I think @ that sauce is right! Says so on ca.gov website anyways. Time for some METRC lovin!
Growers with a provisional or annual license are required to use Track-and-Trace. Temporary permit-holders are not. Instead, they are required to document all sales using paper invoices or shipping manifests. When your temporary license expires you’ll be shit out of luck unless you’re ready for some CCTT.
James Marmon MSW
Agreed, Kym we fall into this category. We’ve been working on this almost got years. Got it temporary licenses last January. Extension after extension waiting for county, Feds, and state agencies’ approvals. Now awaiting Scientific Review while our temp licenses just expired. CDFA sent us an email saying they uploaded Provisional Licenses for us to the CDFA portal but can’t find them and we were just informed that CDFA shut down their tech support phone lines. So hundred thousand dollars and four years later trying to do the legal thing, we’re now technically growing illegally. It’s been a nightmare….
I am so so sorry!
Kym, I don’t see “Farce” trying to group everone into one basket but rather just pointing out what is going on with a very large part of the “signed up growers”. I think it is best to fully acknowledge it rather than down play it by pointing out what others might be doing. The negative effects of the truth of that which Farce is speaking about are to significant to ignore.
Maybe it depends on where you live but many of the neighbors I know are either still black market or are struggling to deal with some pretty tough laws to become compliant. Yes, I know at least one person that I would categorize as trying to game the system but most folks are in despair–many having already completed the requirements to the best of their ability and are watching the looming deadline for their temporary permit to expire while the state continues to review their application. When you get down to a couple weeks before the deadline and no one has either approved your permit or told you what you need to do to be approved, that is terrifying.
Grouping everyone together is just as rough as when people claim all growers are polluters when many growers are very concerned about the environment.
Oh So Rare The Souls
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I think its a bad idea ao many people smoke pot. It masks and hides the real issues.. How many stoned drivers do we need.
We need more,. Lots more people slowing down to take a breath on this carnival ride on life. It’s getting tough out there, and that means we can all feel it, on the inside. This whole thing is a house of cards. It just depends whether you want to be comfortable when you die.
This may be the sanest comment of all.
I am pretty involved in the north county scene, and hardly so in south county anymore. But EVERYONE I know or have heard of sells in the traditional market to pay their Bill’s. Many donate large amounts to the new market at cost, and in some cases even below, just to play along and to see where it goes, but only a fool would bank his family’s finances on it.
Extensions are a real stick in the eye to the 5% that were wholeheartedly attempting to follow the law. Some spent their savings trying to do the right thing, being told they had to fix 20 year old landslides and such nonsense as that. They were told if they did so that they would obtain a permit and have an advantage in the new market. Nope, instead you just have the disadvantage of less capital. Most I’ve seen and heard of with temps are told they would never qualify for a state permit, but if they hold onto temp, no abatements. Plenty of areas in California to grow at a lower cost. Power, land, water, and labor are all ridiculously expensive in this area when compared to other pot friendly towns (yes, their are MANY now) in California.
Thank you. I have friends also who naively believed they would be in the first wave of state permits and that this would work out in their favor. One of them had to widen his road and place new culverts as per the county requirements…then the county changed it’s requirements and he had to re-widen even more! He has his state stamp and because of that he is very close to actually being track-n-traced. Meanwhile the county and state are allowing people way back in the process- the foot draggers and intentional delayers- to continue production and sell out of state. Many of the foot-draggers are never intending on going full permit…it is just a strategy to eke out some extra harvests. They are protected by the county, able to blow out huge harvests and sell them on the interstate market. The county is aware of this. So is the state. But the officials will deny and even pretend that everything is under control under our “legalization”. And they will use brutal eradication of those unable to play the “fake legal” game as proof that they are serious. The “fake legal” grows pay them protection fees and supposedly taxes (many growers are behind on these) so it is very much a pay-to-play arrangement. I believe that law enforcement efforts should be spent as much on these large “fake legal” farms as on the small unpermitted people. I’m not holding my breath. CA and especially Humboldt County have been terribly corrupt from their birth…it’s in the political DNA
Forget murder mountain, someone needs to make a movie about the failure of legalization in California. Every week there’s an indoor illegal bust, but yet the legal farms are doing the same thing out the back door. I bet it takes 5-10 years to clear out the black market and clean things up.
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