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San Bernardino County Supports Legislation to Combat Illicit Cannabis Grow Operations - Marijuana Packaging
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San Bernardino County Supports Legislation to Combat Illicit Cannabis Grow Operations

In 1996 California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana, and two decades later, voters approved a recreational cannabis ballot (Proposition 64). While legalization is a huge step f...

BusinessLA Cannabis For Super Bowl LVI - Marijuana Packaging

LA Cannabis For Super Bowl LVI

Millions of people descended to Los Angeles for last Sunday’s Super Bowl LVI festivities. Los Angeles Rams fans looking to celebrate the win with some cannabis can benefit from informing themselve...

Banking & FinanceCalifornia’s Black Market Is Thriving Compared To Legal Industry - Marijuana Packaging

California’s Black Market Is Thriving Compared To Legal Industry

The legal cannabis industry was established, in part, to eradicate the illicit market. However, there’s been a disconnect between the lawmakers enforcing rigid rules and regulations and the actual ...

CaliforniaOakland Moves To End Marijuana Testing For City Employees - Marijuana Packaging

Oakland Moves To End Marijuana Testing For City Employees

Over the past 20 years, Oakland has been a standing pioneer of embracing marijuana. However, the city that paved the way for regulation, taxation, and decriminalization of marijuana, is still testi...

Banking & FinanceCA Cannabis Executives Express Concerns Over “Collapsing” Industry In An Open Letter - Marijuana Packaging

CA Cannabis Executives Express Concerns Over “Collapsing” Industry In An Open Letter

Taxes, taxes, taxes. It’s really what it all comes to when any new, exciting sector emerges in the government’s eyes. The cannabis industry has grown immensely since Proposition 64 in California, ...

armed robberiesCannabis Taxes Suspended in San Francisco Amidst Struggles With Crime & The Illicit Market - Marijuana Packaging

Cannabis Taxes Suspended in San Francisco Amidst Struggles With Crime & The Illicit Market

Last week the city of San Francisco’s supervisors held a unanimous vote to suspend the city’s Cannabis Business Tax. This suspension is currently in effect and will last through December 2022; dur...

AB-45California’s Newly Opened CBD Market Is Enticing A Global Market - Marijuana Packaging

California’s Newly Opened CBD Market Is Enticing A Global Market

For years in California, low-THC, high-CBD products had been on retailers’ shelves with little regulation. A 2018 ban on hemp-derived CBD in foods, drinks, and dietary supplements attempted to reg...