California’s Cannabis Advisory Committee Holding Subcommittee Meetings
This is a press release from the Department of Cannabis Control:
The Cannabis Advisory Committee (CAC) will hold three subcommittee meetings during the month of February:
Medicinal Use Subcommittee
Monday, February 13, 2023 – 1 p.m.
View the meeting agenda and information about the meeting.Cultivation Subcommittee
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 – 9 a.m.
View the meeting agenda and information about the meeting.Laboratory Subcommittee
Thursday, February 16, 2023 – 9 a.m.
View information about the meeting.The Medicinal Use Subcommittee will define their scope and identify and prioritize topics for subcommittee focus in 2023.
The Cultivation Subcommittee will hear presentations from the California Craft Brewers Association and California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control on opportunities and regulatory structures within the alcoholic beverage industries that support small producers.
An agenda for the Laboratory Subcommittee meeting will be distributed next week.
Meetings will be live-streamed and open to the public. Instructions for joining the virtual meetings are included in each respective agenda. No registration is required to join. Meeting materials will be posted to the DCC website as they become available.
The CAC advises the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) on the development of standards and regulations for commercial cannabis businesses, including those necessary to protect public health and safety. The CAC provides an important venue for robust public discussions that support the development of an innovative regulatory framework that benefits all Californians and results in a safe, sustainable, and equitable cannabis market.
No registration is required to join. Meeting materials will be posted to the DCC website as they become available.
For more information, visit https://cannabis.ca.gov/about-us/cannabis-advisory-committee.
The Cannabis Advisory Committee (CAC) will hold three subcommittee meetings during the month of February:
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After years of presiding over the near extinction of legacy farmers and wreaking havoc on their communities “the Cultivation Subcommittee [of the DCC] will hear presentations on opportunities and regulatory structures …that support small producers.”
Modeled on the alcohol industry, of course. If DCC had any legit interest in supporting small farmers they would not have blown off the one acre cap that was supposed to be in place for 5 years.
How to destroy a cottage industry in 7 easy steps:
1) Sunset collectives and cooperatives; 2) Define cultivation (including medical) as commerce instead of agriculture;
3) Ban direct sales and require distros;
4) Impose ruinous tax and fee schedules;
5) Impose numerous regs that apply only to cannabis, like forebearance of established and legal water sources;
6) Blow off the one acre cap;
7) Bungle the permitting system at the state and local level.
What else?
Think you got them all
Great list. Pretty much covers it.
you forgot, don’t allow business write-offs
Right, or access to banking services except at rip off rates for those financial institutions willing to offer accounts to canna businesses.
Vote for a version of “legalization” that does not really guarantee a one acre cap and that is heavily tilted to a corporate takeover model from the very beginning. Trust the government that you will be free and safe…
Our government destroys everything it touches…
A little too late for that legalization was a scam from the start
The Cannabis Advisory Committee (CAC) has destroyed a once viable community and economy…
Or was it the DCC, acting on behalf of their corporate and government masters, who destroyed the industry, with the CACs providing after the fact window dressing?
Oh wait- I thought Project Trellis was going to save the small farms! lol Yeah- it was a planned corporate takeover and we just gave it to them…
On the bright side there is a ton of product to choose from at our local dispensaries at very reasonable prices. Quality farms 🚜 like Ridgeline are still doing it right ✅️ Support our local farmers by buying local products at our local stores. If everyone shops for cannabis products locally those still in the game can survive. The selection of edibles, concentrates and flowers is incredible and the quality and price just keeps getting better! Don’t Hate! Participate by supporting local businesses!
Great advice…Madrone is the victim of a hostile work environment…