NEWS & RESOURCES

“If we continue to pile on more taxes and fees onto our struggling small cannabis businesses, California’s cannabis culture is under serious threat of extinction,” Haney said in a press release. “Instead, we should be looking at how we can support this industry which has barely been given a chance to survive after legalization. If we want to support our cannabis industry that drives millions of visitors to California every year, adding more costs makes absolutely no sense.”

Mammoth Distribution, one of the first vertically-integrated cannabis companies in the nation, Nabis, California's largest licensed cannabis wholesale platform, and Eaze, a pioneering cannabis delivery and retail company, have joined CaCOA's growing coalition of businesses committed to revitalizing and protecting California's legal cannabis market.

This new digital home represents a significant step in CaCOA's mission to advance policies that create a functional, responsible, and accessible legal cannabis marketplace throughout the Golden State.

Amy O'Gorman Jenkins, representing CaCOA, presented compelling testimony outlining how unregulated products masquerading as “hemp” are undermining public health, consumer safety, and California's regulated cannabis industry.

Cannabis businesses haven’t just integrated into our community—they’ve become valuable partners in building a stronger, healthier Alameda.

On April 22, our Executive Director Amy O'Gorman Jenkins testified before the Assembly Business and Professions Committee in support of Assembly Bill 8 (Aguiar-Curry), legislation co-sponsored by the California Cannabis Operators Association (CaCOA) to address the growing threat of unregulated intoxicating hemp products flooding the legal market.