Los Angeles – California Growers Association (CalGrowers) and Southern California Coalition (SoCal Coalition) announced a new collaboration aimed at bringing together the Northern and Southern California’s cannabis industries, closing existing educational gaps among regulators and decisions makers at the state, county and city level, and improving cross-communications and political organizing within the cannabis industry. The CalGrowers-SoCal Coalition Collaboration will work to raise awareness around important issues currently hampering small- and medium-sized cannabis businesses’ political voice, influence, innovation, growth and supply chains in the world’s largest cannabis market: California.

CCIA Board member and Greenbridge Corporate Counsel Founder Khurshid Khoja has served, pro bono, as General Counsel of CCIA since 2014—playing a critical role in shaping law and policy for CCIA through the formative years which involved hands-on participation in stakeholder negotiations and drafting of MMRSA, MCRSA, AUMA and MAUCRSA. 

Thank you for the opportunity to comment today. Today I am speaking on behalf of the California Growers Association and our more than 1000 business members, our partners the California Minority Alliance and a network of 13 regional cannabis industry advocacy groups throughout the state.

In addition to priority concerns related size, vertical integration and distribution, we have also communicated several other priority considerations to the policy makers in Sacramento.

TAXATION PANNEL  -- Greedy cities are not the best places for business, a panel of state revenue and government tax experts told the CGA Spring Policy Summit. 

Threats from Washington about attacks on California’s adult-use cannabis marketplace aren’t as scary as they sound, a California State Assembly member told the California Growers Association Spring Policy Summit.

DELIVERY PANNEL – Opportunities to establish a unique license category for retail medical cannabis delivery services remain elusive, CGA Executive Director Allen told the Spring Policy Summit.

(Sacramento) Early Tuesday evening the Brown Administration unveiled the long awaited budget trailer bill. This legislation proposes one regulatory framework with parallel tracks for medical and adult use. 

The Board of Directors will meet on March 28th and 29th in Sacramento.