NEWS & RESOURCES

We are grateful to the Assembly Business and Professions Committee members for recognizing the problematic aspects of AB 762. While we always appreciate the legislature's attention to environmental concerns, this bill would have created severe unintended consequences for patients, consumers, and our struggling legal cannabis industry. The committee's decision reflects thoughtful consideration of such a ban's real-world impacts on public health and safety.

“For years, cannabis lounges have always been talked about as some kind of game change for dispensaries, but it just hasn’t come to pass,” Alex Freedman, the president of the California Cannabis Operators Association.

Amy O'Gorman Jenkins, representing CaCOA, outlined how the organization is "proud to sponsor AB 1027 by Assemblymember Sharp-Collins, a measured and thoughtful bill that strengthens oversight of cannabis testing to improve transparency, support enforcement consistency, and reinforce consumer confidence in California's cannabis market."

“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.