On September 8, 2021, the California Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) published proposed emergency cannabis regulations. These emergency regulations harmonize the previous regulations that were ported over from the prior three agencies into one combined set, and they modify some of those rules and add also new ones. The DCC also published a revised set
Most business purchase transactions we see in the cannabis space are structured to have a concept of “closing”, which I’ve described before here. Essentially, this means that the parties sign, there is some gap of time for them to take care of certain things, and then the business is sold. Today, I want to examine
过去四年间，洛杉矶市对大麻法规的调整与修订可谓层出不穷。值得称道的是，面对行业问题的涌现，市政府及其大麻监管局（DCR）始终努力与时俱进。然而有时，这种调整速度却慢如蜗牛，令人深感遗憾。
上个月，我发表了一篇文章，阐述了大麻企业买家在与所购企业房东交涉时面临的一些问题。简而言之，租赁合同中几乎总是包含限制转让和转租的条款，且这些条款通常会规定，大麻租户的某些控制权变更将被视为转让
Nationwide, cannabis companies and advocates are hailing the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act as the savior of the future of cannabis (a copy of the bill is here). If the Act passes, we will finally have federal legalization and the consequences of the current federal conflict will end, or, at least be reversed in the
完成大麻行业的并购交易始终是一道难关（点击此处了解该流程的详细信息）。与那些不处于高度监管领域的普通企业相比，大麻行业并购交易在交割时往往面临更多先决条件（例如，大麻收购通常需要获得州级机构，甚至可能需要获得地方机构的批准）。
过去几个月里，我撰写了多篇关于SB-519法案的文章。该法案由加州州参议员斯科特·维纳于今年早些时候提出，旨在将包括裸盖菇素、氯胺酮和LSD在内的多种迷幻药物除罪化（相关文章可参阅此处、此处及此处）。SB-519法案已通过加州
This week, Governor Newsom took a major step in reforming California’s (pretty tortured) cannabis licensing program by signing into law Assembly Bill 141, which generally consolidates all cannabis licensing and oversight into the Department of Cannabis Control (“DCC”). In our view, centralizing all licensing and regulatory oversight into a single agency in California is a
