Katelyn Baker
Well-Known Member
Santa Rosa – Amid the euphoria of this weekend's famed Emerald Cup weed fest, there was this creeping buzzkill: the glacial rollout of legalization.
Right when it seems like "The Great Pot Moment" is upon us, it turns out there are a lot of really tough regulatory issues to resolve first, according to government and industry experts who sketched out all the thorny challenges at the two-day conference, competition and harvest celebration at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds.
And implementation of commercialization could be delayed a year until 2019, said insiders.
Proposition 64, approved by voters in November, promised that, by Jan. 1, 2018, a recreational smoker could stroll into a licensed store to buy a favorite strain of White Widow or OJ Kush. A medical marijuana law, the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act, is moving along a similar timeline.
For the 23,000 cannabis aficionados at the festival, even that wait seems unreasonably long, considering people have been weaving hemp into loincloths for thousands of years.
What's the challenge? Just as the prohibition on cannabis was complicated, so is the process of ending it, experts said.
News Moderator: Katelyn Baker 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: Why California's Legal Marijuana Sales Rollout Could Be Delayed
Author: Lisa M. Krieger
Contact: 408-920-5000
Photo Credit: Lisa M. Krieger
Website: The Mercury News
Right when it seems like "The Great Pot Moment" is upon us, it turns out there are a lot of really tough regulatory issues to resolve first, according to government and industry experts who sketched out all the thorny challenges at the two-day conference, competition and harvest celebration at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds.
And implementation of commercialization could be delayed a year until 2019, said insiders.
Proposition 64, approved by voters in November, promised that, by Jan. 1, 2018, a recreational smoker could stroll into a licensed store to buy a favorite strain of White Widow or OJ Kush. A medical marijuana law, the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act, is moving along a similar timeline.
For the 23,000 cannabis aficionados at the festival, even that wait seems unreasonably long, considering people have been weaving hemp into loincloths for thousands of years.
What's the challenge? Just as the prohibition on cannabis was complicated, so is the process of ending it, experts said.
News Moderator: Katelyn Baker 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: Why California's Legal Marijuana Sales Rollout Could Be Delayed
Author: Lisa M. Krieger
Contact: 408-920-5000
Photo Credit: Lisa M. Krieger
Website: The Mercury News
