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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/us-drug-enforcement-administration\">The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration\u003c/a> is moving toward reclassifying \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/marijuana\">marijuana\u003c/a> as a less dangerous drug. The Justice Department proposal would recognize \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-health-schumer-becerra-dea-c00db5dabbeb9efd94cf17baff241e85\">the medical uses of cannabis\u003c/a> but wouldn’t legalize it for recreational use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal would move marijuana from the “Schedule I” group to the less tightly regulated “Schedule III.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what does that mean, and what are the implications?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What has actually changed? What happens next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Technically, nothing yet. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-biden-dea-criminal-justice-pot-f833a8dae6ceb31a8658a5d65832a3b8\">The proposal\u003c/a> must be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget and then undergo a public comment period and review from an administrative judge, a potentially lengthy process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the switch is considered “paradigm-shifting, and it’s very exciting,” Vince Sliwoski, a Portland, Oregon-based cannabis and psychedelics attorney who runs well-known legal blogs on those topics, told The Associated Press when the federal Health and Human Services Department recommended the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t emphasize enough how big of news it is,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It came after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-marijuana-government-and-politics-2d5e3d9e2cfbbbe3ee114536738894a8\">President Joe Biden asked\u003c/a> both HHS and the attorney general, who oversees the DEA, last year to review how marijuana was classified. Schedule I put it on par, legally, with heroin, LSD, quaaludes and ecstasy, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden, a Democrat, supports legalizing medical marijuana for use “where appropriate, consistent with medical and scientific evidence,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday. “That is why it is important for this independent review to go through.”[aside postID=\"news_11982170,news_11983231,news_11820721\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If marijuana gets reclassified, would it legalize recreational cannabis nationwide?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. Schedule III drugs — which include ketamine, anabolic steroids and some acetaminophen-codeine combinations — are still controlled substances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re subject to various rules that allow for some medical uses and for federal criminal prosecution of anyone who traffics in the drugs without permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No changes are expected to the medical marijuana programs now licensed in 38 states or the legal recreational cannabis markets in 23 states, but it’s unlikely they would meet the federal production, record-keeping, prescribing and other requirements for Schedule III drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There haven’t been many federal prosecutions for simply possessing marijuana in recent years, even under marijuana’s current Schedule I status, but the reclassification wouldn’t have an immediate impact on people already in the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Put simple, this move from Schedule I to Schedule III is not getting people out of jail,” said David Culver, senior vice president of public affairs at the U.S. Cannabis Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, rescheduling in itself would have some impact, particularly on research and marijuana business taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What would this mean for research?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Because marijuana is on Schedule I, it’s been very difficult to conduct authorized clinical studies that involve administering the drug. That has created something of a Catch-22: calls for more research but barriers to doing it. (Scientists sometimes rely instead on people’s own reports of their marijuana use.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schedule III drugs are easier to study, though the reclassification wouldn’t immediately reverse all barriers to study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be really confusing for a long time,” said Ziva Cooper, director of the University of California, Los Angeles Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoids. “When the dust has settled, I don’t know how many years from now, research will be easier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the unknowns are whether researchers will be able to study marijuana from state-licensed dispensaries and how the Federal Food and Drug Administration might oversee that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some researchers are optimistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reducing the schedule to schedule 3 will open up the door for us to be able to conduct research with human subjects with cannabis,” said Susan Ferguson, director of the University of Washington’s Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute in Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What about taxes (and banking?)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Under the federal tax code, businesses involved in “trafficking” in marijuana or any other Schedule I or II drug can’t deduct rent, payroll or various other expenses that other businesses can write off. (Yes, at least some cannabis businesses, particularly state-licensed ones, do pay taxes to the federal government despite its prohibition on marijuana.) Industry groups said the tax rate often ends up at 70% or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deduction rule doesn’t apply to Schedule III drugs, so the proposed change would cut cannabis companies’ taxes substantially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said it would treat them like other industries and help them compete against illegal competitors that are frustrating licensees and officials in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-new-york-unlicensed-pot-shops-crackdown-343e14fd9e95dd15fb9bb4ebb74da9c6\">places such as New York\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to make these state-legal programs stronger,” said Adam Goers, of The Cannabist Company, formerly Columbia Care. He co-chairs a coalition of corporate and other players pushing for rescheduling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could also mean more cannabis promotion and advertising if those costs could be deducted, according to Beau Kilmer, co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rescheduling wouldn’t directly affect another marijuana business problem: difficulty accessing banks, particularly for loans, because the federally regulated institutions are wary of the drug’s legal status. The industry has been looking instead to a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-us-news-ap-top-news-bills-wa-state-wire-ffd7b57255054696bcf96b1a8033268a\">measure called the SAFE Banking Act\u003c/a>. It has repeatedly passed the House but stalled in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there critics? What do they say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Indeed, there are, including the national anti-legalization group Smart Approaches to Marijuana. President Kevin Sabet, a former Obama administration drug policy official, said the HHS recommendation “flies in the face of science, reeks of politics” and gives a regrettable nod to an industry “desperately looking for legitimacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some legalization advocates said rescheduling weed is too incremental. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If marijuana gets reclassified, would it legalize recreational cannabis nationwide?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. Schedule III drugs — which include ketamine, anabolic steroids and some acetaminophen-codeine combinations — are still controlled substances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re subject to various rules that allow for some medical uses and for federal criminal prosecution of anyone who traffics in the drugs without permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No changes are expected to the medical marijuana programs now licensed in 38 states or the legal recreational cannabis markets in 23 states, but it’s unlikely they would meet the federal production, record-keeping, prescribing and other requirements for Schedule III drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There haven’t been many federal prosecutions for simply possessing marijuana in recent years, even under marijuana’s current Schedule I status, but the reclassification wouldn’t have an immediate impact on people already in the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Put simple, this move from Schedule I to Schedule III is not getting people out of jail,” said David Culver, senior vice president of public affairs at the U.S. Cannabis Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, rescheduling in itself would have some impact, particularly on research and marijuana business taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What would this mean for research?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Because marijuana is on Schedule I, it’s been very difficult to conduct authorized clinical studies that involve administering the drug. 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(Yes, at least some cannabis businesses, particularly state-licensed ones, do pay taxes to the federal government despite its prohibition on marijuana.) Industry groups said the tax rate often ends up at 70% or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deduction rule doesn’t apply to Schedule III drugs, so the proposed change would cut cannabis companies’ taxes substantially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said it would treat them like other industries and help them compete against illegal competitors that are frustrating licensees and officials in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-new-york-unlicensed-pot-shops-crackdown-343e14fd9e95dd15fb9bb4ebb74da9c6\">places such as New York\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to make these state-legal programs stronger,” said Adam Goers, of The Cannabist Company, formerly Columbia Care. 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"content": "\u003cp>A funny thing happened on the way to cannabis legalization: Illegal pot is still big business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the decade since the first states \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/01/1222405951/colorado-legalized-recreational-pot-10-years-ago-heres-how-the-industry-has-grow?ft=nprml&f=1222405951\">legalized recreational marijuana\u003c/a>, about \u003ca href=\"https://norml.org/laws/legalization/\">half the country\u003c/a> has moved to allow adults to buy regulated pot from authorized sources. But in some states, that’s been more theory than practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In New York, which legalized marijuana in 2021, retail sales are dominated by ubiquitous illegal “smoke shops,” while the state struggles to license legitimate ones. Governor Kathy Hochul has called the transition “a disaster,” and has \u003ca href=\"https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-stands-legal-cannabis-retailers-announce-steps-forward-shutting-down-illicit\">pledged to crack down\u003c/a> on the illegal sellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tiffanie Perrault, postdoctoral researcher, McGill University\"]‘You remove risk — because you know, it’s legal — so you have more consumers. And at the same time, your black market is going to react strategically by adjusting prices and levels of quality.’[/pullquote]In Maine, the congressional delegation last summer \u003ca href=\"https://www.king.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/maine-delegation-urges-doj-to-shut-down-foreign-owned-illegally-operated-marijuana-businesses\">asked the Justice Department for help\u003c/a> in combatting illegal cannabis producers, who outnumber the state’s licensed operations and are believed to be funded in part by Chinese investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in California, where voters approved recreational pot in 2016, state officials readily acknowledge the industry still operates mostly in the shadows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The black market is very pervasive and it’s definitely larger than the legal market,” says Bill Jones, the head of enforcement for the state’s Department of Cannabis Control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is the biggest example of the unfulfilled promise of a legitimate cannabis market. Some entrepreneurs blame high taxes and start-up costs for licensed producers and retailers. Smaller operators often have trouble getting access to capital, as the continued federal prohibition on the marijuana business makes it virtually impossible for them to tap into traditional financial services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones, however, focuses on what law enforcement did — or rather, what it didn’t do — in the first few years after the vote to allow a licensed weed industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most jurisdictions — local jurisdictions — police or sheriff’s departments and district attorney’s offices, were very reluctant to do any kind of enforcement on cannabis,” he says. “It really created an air of impunity, and the unlicensed activity really skyrocketed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Washington state, by contrast, maintained law enforcement pressure on illegal marijuana after voters legalized pot in 2012, which gave the new licensed industry time to establish itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982175\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20240305_npr_cannabis_12_custom-c3f90ddbc39855881a3715371424575854cdf3ee-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982175\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20240305_npr_cannabis_12_custom-c3f90ddbc39855881a3715371424575854cdf3ee-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two people stand on the street across from multiple vehicles, palm trees and people.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1701\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20240305_npr_cannabis_12_custom-c3f90ddbc39855881a3715371424575854cdf3ee-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20240305_npr_cannabis_12_custom-c3f90ddbc39855881a3715371424575854cdf3ee-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20240305_npr_cannabis_12_custom-c3f90ddbc39855881a3715371424575854cdf3ee-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20240305_npr_cannabis_12_custom-c3f90ddbc39855881a3715371424575854cdf3ee-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20240305_npr_cannabis_12_custom-c3f90ddbc39855881a3715371424575854cdf3ee-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20240305_npr_cannabis_12_custom-c3f90ddbc39855881a3715371424575854cdf3ee-2048x1361.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20240305_npr_cannabis_12_custom-c3f90ddbc39855881a3715371424575854cdf3ee-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passersby watch as California Department of Cannabis Control detectives, with support of Long Beach law enforcement, serve a search warrant on an unlicensed dispensary in Long Beach, Los Angeles County, on March 5, 2024. Like many unlicensed cannabis stores, this one is unmarked and still has signage from a previous business. \u003ccite>(Alisha Jucevic/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California, the DCC is now trying to close the gap. It gathers anonymous tips about unlicensed cannabis stores, which operate semi-openly out of storefronts that aren’t hard to identify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ll occupy buildings [where] the business itself has moved or is out of business,” says Wilson Linares, the DCC’s head of enforcement for the Los Angeles area. His officers and local police recently raided a shabby storefront in Long Beach. The sign reads “Flores Cabinets,” but inside they find cannabis edibles for sale, as well as loose marijuana flowers, sold in jars — a practice called “deli style,” prohibited under California’s cannabis regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11974578,news_11971594,news_11981277\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Linares says some of the unlicensed stores are identified with the green cross emblem, borrowed from the medical marijuana movement that predated recreational stores. Another clue, though, is the level of security. The ostensible cabinet store in Long Beach has a heavy metal door and security grates over mirrored windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the biggest things that you can see is the cameras. The building itself is old but the cameras are new. That’s a pretty good indicator for us,” Linares says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These raids have ramped up in the last couple of years, especially in Los Angeles. Some of the unlicensed retailers have shifted toward delivery services. But the penalty for getting caught selling unlicensed marijuana is relatively light — usually a $500 fine, unless the person has broken other laws — and Linares says his officers find themselves raiding the same storefronts over and over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These places don’t pay taxes, it doesn’t help provide services for the people who live around here,” Linares says. “And the individuals who run these places, they’re often not the best,” he says. “Gangs and organized crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This doesn’t come as much of a surprise to an economist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The black market becomes more competitive,” says Tiffanie Perrault, a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University in Montreal who studies cannabis markets. She says it’s understandable why illegal marijuana expanded in California after legalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You remove risk — because you know, it’s legal — so you have more consumers,” she says. “And at the same time, your black market is going to react strategically by adjusting prices and levels of quality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The black market in California also benefits from the restrictions on the licensed competitors, such as the fact that only about \u003ca href=\"https://cannabis.ca.gov/cannabis-laws/where-cannabis-businesses-are-allowed/\">40% of local jurisdictions in California permit cannabis stores\u003c/a>. That leaves the other 60% to the retailers who don’t wait for official approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California cannabis buyers are often unaware of — or indifferent to — the legality of the product they buy, but they do notice prices. Depending on the jurisdiction,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/this-week-in-weed-cannabis-taxes-la\"> taxes on licensed pot can reach 38%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got a disposable and some edibles,” says Camerin Remmington as he exits an authorized store on the edge of town in Riverside. “It’s almost 60 bucks for two items. It’s a little more expensive here!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he appreciates the fact that the licensed products are tested for quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know it is what it is,” he says. “You can’t go wrong with it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with cannabis, legality for its own sake is not a concern for Remmington. He volunteers that he grew it illegally on his land in the high desert during the post-legalization boom a couple of years ago. He says it made money, until police showed up a year and a half ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got ticketed for it, for having a couple of processed plants, but they didn’t catch the bulk of anything,” he says. When he showed up for his court date, the case appeared to be a low priority. “They didn’t even know who we were!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/img_0024_custom-606ba73284b3b8a55f10dd72004217821ab8da69-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982179\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/img_0024_custom-606ba73284b3b8a55f10dd72004217821ab8da69-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man dressed in tactical police combat gear looks at bags of cannabis in the trunk of a vehicle.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1926\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/img_0024_custom-606ba73284b3b8a55f10dd72004217821ab8da69-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/img_0024_custom-606ba73284b3b8a55f10dd72004217821ab8da69-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/img_0024_custom-606ba73284b3b8a55f10dd72004217821ab8da69-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/img_0024_custom-606ba73284b3b8a55f10dd72004217821ab8da69-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/img_0024_custom-606ba73284b3b8a55f10dd72004217821ab8da69-1536x1156.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/img_0024_custom-606ba73284b3b8a55f10dd72004217821ab8da69-2048x1541.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/img_0024_custom-606ba73284b3b8a55f10dd72004217821ab8da69-1920x1444.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riverside County Sheriff Department Sgt. Jeremy Parsons collects cannabis clippings and firearms from an unlicensed greenhouse in Perris. \u003ccite>(Martin Kaste/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those raids are still happening in rural Riverside County. On a Tuesday morning, the sheriff’s department’s Marijuana Enforcement Team leads a ten-vehicle convoy through the outskirts of the town of Perris. They’re following up on a tip about a house hidden at the end of a private drive. The operation commander, Sgt. Jeremy Parsons, comes out to the main road to report that it is, indeed, an illegal grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we went up to the house we could smell marijuana. We found a greenhouse in the backyard which contained a few hundred small marijuana plants,” he says. They also found guns, and they run the names of two people on the site to see if either one is a felon, and not allowed to have a firearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a lot of criminal consequences [for illegally growing marijuana],” Parsons says. But the strategy here is to try to charge growers with other crimes — that’s why the convoy of vehicles was so long, as it included people from California Fish and Wildlife, the local water board and even code inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what we’re charging these people with: water contamination, pesticides that are illegal, the fertilizers that are illegal. That’s where we’re getting people,” says Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Bianco, the bigger issue is legalization itself. He’s against it, because he believes it encourages the illegal pot farms in the hills of Riverside County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made it worse. One hundred percent, it made it worse,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big problem, as he sees it, is exports. California has become a major exporter to states where marijuana is still illegal — and fetches a higher price — \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/resources/3052013829132756857467.pdf\">despite the warning from the Justice Department (PDF)\u003c/a> back when legalization got started that the states that legalize pot should make sure to keep it inside their borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bianco says the marijuana gold rush has attracted Mexican drug cartels and Asian human smuggling rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, we’ve had multiple, multiple homicides, we’ve had multiple kidnappings, we’ve had multiple reports of human trafficking and rapes and the punishments that go with not doing your job — and it’s all related to this,” Bianco says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the DCC, Bill Jones says he thinks legalization was, as he puts it, “imperative,” but he also believes it should be possible eventually to curb the black market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s doable. But it’s going to take a lot of resources and consistent enforcement over years to get our arms around this,” Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Black+market+cannabis+thrives+in+California+despite+legalization&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones, however, focuses on what law enforcement did — or rather, what it didn’t do — in the first few years after the vote to allow a licensed weed industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most jurisdictions — local jurisdictions — police or sheriff’s departments and district attorney’s offices, were very reluctant to do any kind of enforcement on cannabis,” he says. “It really created an air of impunity, and the unlicensed activity really skyrocketed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Washington state, by contrast, maintained law enforcement pressure on illegal marijuana after voters legalized pot in 2012, which gave the new licensed industry time to establish itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982175\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20240305_npr_cannabis_12_custom-c3f90ddbc39855881a3715371424575854cdf3ee-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982175\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20240305_npr_cannabis_12_custom-c3f90ddbc39855881a3715371424575854cdf3ee-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two people stand on the street across from multiple vehicles, palm trees and people.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1701\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20240305_npr_cannabis_12_custom-c3f90ddbc39855881a3715371424575854cdf3ee-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20240305_npr_cannabis_12_custom-c3f90ddbc39855881a3715371424575854cdf3ee-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20240305_npr_cannabis_12_custom-c3f90ddbc39855881a3715371424575854cdf3ee-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20240305_npr_cannabis_12_custom-c3f90ddbc39855881a3715371424575854cdf3ee-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20240305_npr_cannabis_12_custom-c3f90ddbc39855881a3715371424575854cdf3ee-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20240305_npr_cannabis_12_custom-c3f90ddbc39855881a3715371424575854cdf3ee-2048x1361.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20240305_npr_cannabis_12_custom-c3f90ddbc39855881a3715371424575854cdf3ee-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passersby watch as California Department of Cannabis Control detectives, with support of Long Beach law enforcement, serve a search warrant on an unlicensed dispensary in Long Beach, Los Angeles County, on March 5, 2024. Like many unlicensed cannabis stores, this one is unmarked and still has signage from a previous business. \u003ccite>(Alisha Jucevic/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California, the DCC is now trying to close the gap. It gathers anonymous tips about unlicensed cannabis stores, which operate semi-openly out of storefronts that aren’t hard to identify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ll occupy buildings [where] the business itself has moved or is out of business,” says Wilson Linares, the DCC’s head of enforcement for the Los Angeles area. His officers and local police recently raided a shabby storefront in Long Beach. The sign reads “Flores Cabinets,” but inside they find cannabis edibles for sale, as well as loose marijuana flowers, sold in jars — a practice called “deli style,” prohibited under California’s cannabis regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Linares says some of the unlicensed stores are identified with the green cross emblem, borrowed from the medical marijuana movement that predated recreational stores. Another clue, though, is the level of security. The ostensible cabinet store in Long Beach has a heavy metal door and security grates over mirrored windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the biggest things that you can see is the cameras. The building itself is old but the cameras are new. That’s a pretty good indicator for us,” Linares says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These raids have ramped up in the last couple of years, especially in Los Angeles. Some of the unlicensed retailers have shifted toward delivery services. But the penalty for getting caught selling unlicensed marijuana is relatively light — usually a $500 fine, unless the person has broken other laws — and Linares says his officers find themselves raiding the same storefronts over and over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These places don’t pay taxes, it doesn’t help provide services for the people who live around here,” Linares says. “And the individuals who run these places, they’re often not the best,” he says. “Gangs and organized crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This doesn’t come as much of a surprise to an economist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The black market becomes more competitive,” says Tiffanie Perrault, a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University in Montreal who studies cannabis markets. She says it’s understandable why illegal marijuana expanded in California after legalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You remove risk — because you know, it’s legal — so you have more consumers,” she says. “And at the same time, your black market is going to react strategically by adjusting prices and levels of quality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The black market in California also benefits from the restrictions on the licensed competitors, such as the fact that only about \u003ca href=\"https://cannabis.ca.gov/cannabis-laws/where-cannabis-businesses-are-allowed/\">40% of local jurisdictions in California permit cannabis stores\u003c/a>. That leaves the other 60% to the retailers who don’t wait for official approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California cannabis buyers are often unaware of — or indifferent to — the legality of the product they buy, but they do notice prices. Depending on the jurisdiction,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/this-week-in-weed-cannabis-taxes-la\"> taxes on licensed pot can reach 38%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got a disposable and some edibles,” says Camerin Remmington as he exits an authorized store on the edge of town in Riverside. “It’s almost 60 bucks for two items. It’s a little more expensive here!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he appreciates the fact that the licensed products are tested for quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know it is what it is,” he says. “You can’t go wrong with it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with cannabis, legality for its own sake is not a concern for Remmington. He volunteers that he grew it illegally on his land in the high desert during the post-legalization boom a couple of years ago. He says it made money, until police showed up a year and a half ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got ticketed for it, for having a couple of processed plants, but they didn’t catch the bulk of anything,” he says. When he showed up for his court date, the case appeared to be a low priority. “They didn’t even know who we were!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/img_0024_custom-606ba73284b3b8a55f10dd72004217821ab8da69-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982179\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/img_0024_custom-606ba73284b3b8a55f10dd72004217821ab8da69-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man dressed in tactical police combat gear looks at bags of cannabis in the trunk of a vehicle.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1926\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/img_0024_custom-606ba73284b3b8a55f10dd72004217821ab8da69-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/img_0024_custom-606ba73284b3b8a55f10dd72004217821ab8da69-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/img_0024_custom-606ba73284b3b8a55f10dd72004217821ab8da69-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/img_0024_custom-606ba73284b3b8a55f10dd72004217821ab8da69-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/img_0024_custom-606ba73284b3b8a55f10dd72004217821ab8da69-1536x1156.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/img_0024_custom-606ba73284b3b8a55f10dd72004217821ab8da69-2048x1541.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/img_0024_custom-606ba73284b3b8a55f10dd72004217821ab8da69-1920x1444.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riverside County Sheriff Department Sgt. Jeremy Parsons collects cannabis clippings and firearms from an unlicensed greenhouse in Perris. \u003ccite>(Martin Kaste/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those raids are still happening in rural Riverside County. On a Tuesday morning, the sheriff’s department’s Marijuana Enforcement Team leads a ten-vehicle convoy through the outskirts of the town of Perris. They’re following up on a tip about a house hidden at the end of a private drive. The operation commander, Sgt. Jeremy Parsons, comes out to the main road to report that it is, indeed, an illegal grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we went up to the house we could smell marijuana. We found a greenhouse in the backyard which contained a few hundred small marijuana plants,” he says. They also found guns, and they run the names of two people on the site to see if either one is a felon, and not allowed to have a firearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a lot of criminal consequences [for illegally growing marijuana],” Parsons says. But the strategy here is to try to charge growers with other crimes — that’s why the convoy of vehicles was so long, as it included people from California Fish and Wildlife, the local water board and even code inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what we’re charging these people with: water contamination, pesticides that are illegal, the fertilizers that are illegal. That’s where we’re getting people,” says Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Bianco, the bigger issue is legalization itself. He’s against it, because he believes it encourages the illegal pot farms in the hills of Riverside County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made it worse. One hundred percent, it made it worse,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big problem, as he sees it, is exports. California has become a major exporter to states where marijuana is still illegal — and fetches a higher price — \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/resources/3052013829132756857467.pdf\">despite the warning from the Justice Department (PDF)\u003c/a> back when legalization got started that the states that legalize pot should make sure to keep it inside their borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bianco says the marijuana gold rush has attracted Mexican drug cartels and Asian human smuggling rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, we’ve had multiple, multiple homicides, we’ve had multiple kidnappings, we’ve had multiple reports of human trafficking and rapes and the punishments that go with not doing your job — and it’s all related to this,” Bianco says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the DCC, Bill Jones says he thinks legalization was, as he puts it, “imperative,” but he also believes it should be possible eventually to curb the black market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s doable. But it’s going to take a lot of resources and consistent enforcement over years to get our arms around this,” Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Black+market+cannabis+thrives+in+California+despite+legalization&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Since 2016, when California voters legalized cannabis for recreational use, sales have blossomed into a multibillion-dollar industry — and the promise of this “green gold” was most apparent during the 420 Festival at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2017, the annual free event has become a more expensive enterprise than the days prior when stoners informally gathered at Hippie Hill. Drum circles and hand-to-hand cannabis sales transformed into big-name concerts and flashy new cannabis brands marketing their wares from merchandise booths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t realize there’s a lot of infrastructure that needs to happen to be compliant with all the city departments and to have legal sales and consumption,” said Alex Aquino, a longtime festival organizer. “There’s a lot of restrictions and guidelines, and it’s expensive to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Economic realities have apparently caught up with the festival. Citing a struggling cannabis industry and city budget cuts, organizers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980820/san-franciscos-annual-420-celebration-on-hippie-hill-canceled-for-2024\">canceled\u003c/a> this year’s celebration. Aquino said there weren’t enough sponsorship dollars to make it happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really up to the sponsors to come and say, ‘Hey, we have the cash and the financing to fund this event,’” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Aquino, the 420 Festival — which has cost nearly a half-million dollars to set up — relies on sponsorships and donations. He said the event typically draws around 40,000 people, requiring security, portable toilets and permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The festival’s lack of sponsorship dollars this year is likely due to inflation and the high cost of borrowing money, according to David Downs, senior editor at Leafly.com and organizer of the city’s first-ever \u003ca href=\"https://sfweedweek.com/\">SF Weed Week\u003c/a>, which is set to take place this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Alex Aquino, organizer, 420 Festival\"]‘It’s really up to the sponsors to come and say, ‘Hey, we have the cash and the financing to fund this event.”[/pullquote]“Businesses are being very careful where they spend their marketing dollars. Those budgets are often the first to get cut as businesses seek profitability,” Downs said. “Hippie Hill in 2024 sailed into those headwinds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Cannabis sales have been on the decline. Sales peaked in 2021 at $5.35 billion but dropped by $45 million the following year. The most recent data, showing sales through June 2023, reveals even weaker sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Downs calls the outlook for the pot industry in California “Dickensian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the best of times and the worst of times; it just depends on who you’re talking to,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By all accounts, business is good at Solful, a cannabis dispensary in San Francisco’s Inner Sunset neighborhood. On a weekday afternoon, a steady stream of customers peruses colorful aisles of cannabis flower, oils and even cannabis-spiked seltzers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11980820,news_11663153,news_11661946\"]“I never like to think cannabis is all doom and gloom,” said Eli Melrod, CEO and co-founder of Solful. “It’s certainly having its challenges. I think we’ve had some rainy days, but I think the future is always bright for cannabis. I mean, people will always consume weed, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melrod said the lack of sponsorship dollars for the 420 festival this year tracks with a general purse-string-tightening happening now in the industry. He said there was a “grow at all costs mindset” in the early days of legalization, but now, businesses are being more frugal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As capital in cannabis and just in general has gotten more expensive, the focus has shifted from growth to cash flow and profitability,” Melrod said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said while sales at Solful are relatively strong, he’s noticed demand going down in the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The general cost of doing business relative to a normal business is much, much higher,” Melrod said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State laws require dispensaries to charge around a 24% tax to consumers, and with inflation stretching everyone’s wallet, he thinks that might be causing people to buy elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Eli Melrod, CEO and co-founder, Solful\"]‘I think we’ve had some rainy days, but I think the future is always bright for cannabis. I mean, people will always consume weed, right?’[/pullquote]“We’ve had an existing, very strong illicit market prior to legalization that really hasn’t gone anywhere. In fact, it’s probably gotten stronger,” Melrod said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joey Hajduk of Livermore was among the people browsing Solful’s selection of cannabis flower, oils and even hard seltzers. He said it was a “bummer” that there won’t be a 420 Festival, but he plans to mark the day anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll probably just hang out with a few friends and roll up a joint and enjoy the river or something,” Hajduk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the “official” 420 party canceled this year, it’s still likely that many cannabis enthusiasts will head to Hippie Hill to celebrate the holiday just as they have in past decades. 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Between 2017 and 2020, Sweet took about 16.2 acre-feet of water for three ponds, according to an email from the water board — approximately enough to supply about 49 households for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ordered penalties are modest given the scope of damage, the length of time the site has been left unremediated and considering the unjust enrichment or benefit to Mr. Sweet from running a business for several years without going through the necessary permitting process,” said Jeremy Valverde, assistant chief counsel at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sweet and his businesses “for years resisted our attempts to cooperatively work on restoration and recovery of those resources, leaving formal enforcement as our only option,” said Joshua Curtis, the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board’s assistant executive officer.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"water-rights\"]Sweet said, though, that the case didn’t have to play out like it did. “Offers were made and denied,” he said. “There would be no settlement without their need to ‘make an example of me first.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The size of the penalty is notable because the water board has limited powers to enforce California’s arcane water rights system. A weeklong standoff during a drought, when \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/08/shasta-river-water-standoff/\">ranchers pumped more than half of the Shasta River’s\u003c/a> water in violation of state orders, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/11/california-ranchers-drought-fine/\">netted a $500 per day fine that reached $4,000\u003c/a>, or roughly $50 per rancher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers floated a bill last year that could triple the fines for water rights violations, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/06/california-water-fines/\">though the bill has thus far stalled\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#correction\">This story contains a correction.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 11 million arrest and conviction records have been wiped clean in the first six months of the implementation of a new California law, marking the largest expungement over that time period in the country’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mass expungement follows the years-long effort by lawmakers and voters dating back to 2016 — when marijuana was legalized in the state — to clear certain criminal records and open up employment and housing opportunities for Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After someone has completed their sentence and paid their debts, we cannot continue to allow old legal records to create barriers to opportunity that destabilize families, undermine our economy, and worsen racial injustices,” Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/news/millions-of-old-conviction-and-arrest-records-have-been-expunged-under-unprecedented-state-law-doj-says/\">said in a press statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting authored \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1076\">AB 1076\u003c/a>, a 2019 law which requires the state’s Dept. of Justice to review and automatically clear certain non-serious offense records for people who already completed their sentence or diversion program, or if their arrest did not lead to a conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expungements of records under the law began a year ago. Between July 1 and Dec. 31, 2022, more than 8.4 million arrests that never resulted in a conviction were cleared from Californians’ records, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/sites/default/files/dataset/2023-06/arr-mandated-stats.pdf\">latest relief data from the DOJ (PDF)\u003c/a>. More than 2.6 million conviction records were also expunged during the same time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have over 58 million records that represent 6 to 7 million people in California that just weren’t getting their records expunged,” Jay Jordan, CEO of the Alliance for Safety and Justice, a public safety advocacy organization, told KQED. “As a result, they couldn’t find good-paying jobs, they couldn’t get apartments, and they couldn’t do things like coach their kid’s Little League teams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB64\">California voters approved Proposition 64\u003c/a>, which legalized cannabis and required the state to expunge prior cannabis-related records that were no longer considered criminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while cannabis sales and businesses were quick to boom after legalization, expungement for prior convictions was slow because the process largely fell on individuals to do the work of determining whether they are eligible and bringing their case up for review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Individuals who wanted to expunge an arrest or a completed sentence from their record typically would have to go to court, fill out a CR-180 form to apply for dismissal, pay around $125, coordinate with the district attorney’s office, then be granted a court date for when their case could be reviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People didn’t have the time or money to do it,” said Jordan. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco)\"]‘California laws that prevent people living with a past conviction or arrest record from positively contributing to our communities make us all less safe.’[/pullquote]In 2018, under former Gov. Jerry Brown, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11688824/california-measure-would-expunge-many-marijuana-related-crimes\">the state approved AB 1793\u003c/a> to help speed up the process by automating it and requiring courts to identify all eligible cannabis-related records and seal them, removing the onus to do so from affected people who may not even know they are eligible. Rollout of AB 1793 was uneven, however, and many local agencies delayed the process as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted court proceedings across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get the effort moving again, in 2019, Ting’s bill automated expungements for eligible arrests and convictions and expanded eligibility to every misdemeanor – not just those related to cannabis – so long as the arrest didn’t result in a prison sentence and if the person completed their sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOJ, along with the nonprofit Code for America, created an automated system that started expunging records on July 1, 2022. 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More white men have been both found eligible and granted relief, compared with Hispanic, Black, Asian or other racial groups, according to the DOJ report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, lawmakers in 2022 passed another bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB731\">SB 731\u003c/a>, which creates a pathway to sealing records for a much wider range of criminal convictions beyond cannabis, excluding sex offenses. Under that bill, a person can apply to seal their records within four years of completing a sentence, as long as they don’t have a new arrest. 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Next door, a farm abandoned by another grower — one of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/02/emerald-triangle-cannabis-communities/\">dozens of cannabis businesses to shut down in Monterey County\u003c/a> in recent years — spawned another small river headed straight for Hackett and her skeleton crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water completely stopped and backed up,” Hackett said. “I thought, ‘Holy s—, this is going to flood our greenhouses.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannabis businesses like Hackett’s — along with thousands of undocumented farmworkers and the area’s unhoused residents — fear they’ll be left to fend for themselves as yet another winter storm batters California’s Central Coast, local officials and advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undocumented workers and cannabis businesses are, by law, ineligible for federally funded programs such as unemployment or aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now — after days of wind and rain and a Pajaro River levee failure flooded the area, displacing hundreds of people in Monterey County alone — details are lacking about how state officials would respond to calls to direct state funds and other disaster relief to these communities in the region known as \u003ca href=\"https://asmith.ucdavis.edu/news/whither-salinas-valley#:~:text=Salinas%20Valley%20grows%20almost%20half,over%2080%25%20of%20its%20artichokes.\">America’s salad bowl\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has stepped into the breach before, offering some \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/15/governor-newsom-announces-new-initiatives-to-support-california-workers-impacted-by-covid-19/\">support to undocumented workers\u003c/a> during the height of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/04/california-undocumented-immigrants/\">COVID-19 pandemic\u003c/a>, and to some cannabis farmers whose crops were \u003ca href=\"https://cannabis.ca.gov/resources/disaster-relief-programs/\">damaged in wildfires\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an issue complicated by competing political priorities and a projected \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/12/california-budget-deficit-safety-net/\">$24 billion state budget deficit\u003c/a> for the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is scheduled to survey flood and storm damage in Monterey County on March 15, including the inundated farmworker town of Pajaro. He will be getting an update from local officials, a spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Newsom planned his visit, many officials and advocates said they hope to hear how the state will help. A few lawmakers said they’re exploring legislative options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943670\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943670\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248040438-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view shows many buildings, homes, streets and cars flooded with brown water.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1430\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248040438-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248040438-800x447.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248040438-1020x570.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248040438-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248040438-1536x858.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248040438-2048x1144.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248040438-1920x1072.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view shows a flooded neighborhood in the unincorporated community of Pajaro in Watsonville, on March 11, 2023. Residents were forced to evacuate in the middle of the night after an atmospheric river storm surge broke the Pajaro levee and sent floodwaters flowing into the community. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to step up our efforts to help those who are undocumented and can’t earn a paycheck because of the current rains and floods,” said Assemblymember Miguel Santiago, a Democrat representing Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is co-sponsoring \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB227\">Senate Bill 227\u003c/a> to provide \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/02/california-safety-net/\">unemployment benefits\u003c/a> to undocumented Californians. About \u003ca href=\"https://clc.ucmerced.edu/sites/clc.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/fwhs_report_2.2.2383.pdf?_gl=1*pc2ynm*_ga*MTQ2ODM4OTYwMC4xNjc1Mzg4NTc3*_ga_TSE2LSBDQZ*MTY3ODg0OTMxNC4zLjEuMTY3ODg0OTMyMS41My4wLjA.\">6 in 10 farmworkers are not eligible for unemployment benefits (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santiago said the current situation is frustrating because he has advocated for years for more safety-net programs that could have helped families hurt by the flooding. If such legislation were in place, he said, “we’d be able to have a place where we could go get people some financial relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles)\"]‘I think we need to step up our efforts to help those who are undocumented and can’t earn a paycheck because of the current rains and floods.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Robert Rivas of Salinas, chosen by his fellow Democrats to be the next Assembly Speaker, noted in a statement to CalMatters that undocumented workers typically don’t qualify for federal assistance funds for emergency housing, home repairs, personal property loss, funeral expenses and other aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My office, in collaboration with other legislative offices, is exploring immediate legislative and budget action to provide relief for these vulnerable communities,” Rivas said, noting that the workers also had been ineligible for many COVID-19 relief programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state began filling some of that gap during the pandemic. Undocumented workers were eligible for $1,700 in state funds: a $500 COVID-19 disaster relief prepaid card and $1,200 from the Golden State Stimulus Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday afternoon, groups of people remained in tents along the flooded Pajaro River. Despite large federal and state housing budgets, many of those people don’t have homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many farmworker families in the flooded region are undocumented, from Indigenous groups, and don’t speak either English or Spanish well, said Eloy Ortiz, board member for the Watsonville-based \u003ca href=\"https://farmworkerfamily.org/board-of-directors\">Center for Farmworker Families\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That complicates attempts to apply for assistance on behalf of the legal residents in their household. Some were rejected when they applied for aid in January, Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks who have been flooded out, if it were a normal year, they’d be starting to go back to the fields to work right now,” Ortiz said. “And now they will probably not be able to go back for months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='California Storm Coverage' tag='california-storm']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 20,000 acres of agricultural land in Monterey County will likely sit fallow because of stormwater contamination, noted Monterey County Supervisor Luis Alejo, a former Assembly member from Watsonville, in a tweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are low-income Latino families, and the start of the harvest season for strawberries, raspberries and other crops is in March. Now farmworkers will be out of work,” he wrote Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I urge our state leaders to provide aid in the state budget for undocumented flood victims who do not qualify for FEMA assistance & additional relief for farmworkers who will be out of work due to flooded ag fields and not qualifying for unemployment insurance,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The financial pain they will face will be severe & prolonged!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As many as 8,500 people were under flood evacuation warnings in Monterey County over the weekend. The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services \u003ca href=\"https://news.caloes.ca.gov/shelters-available-for-residents-impacted-by-march-storms-03-14-23/\">reported that more than 300 people had stayed in five shelters across Santa Cruz and Monterey counties\u003c/a> Monday night, the vast majority taking shelter at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SupervisorAlejo/status/1635917913394937857\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Salinas, Hackett, 32, said her choice was simple as the storm bore down: save herself, or say goodbye to a crop that has already weathered a steep drop in prices and other industry pressures. At least 56 cannabis businesses have closed in Monterey County in recent years, according to a recent estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the water rose Friday morning, Hackett and her team who normally would be busy trimming plants or readying retail products instead shut down early to reinforce storm ditches and forge cement slabs into an impromptu flood wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, as another storm knocked out power at her two adjacent 10-acre farms, Hackett said she is unaware of any aid available for cannabis businesses affected by flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ideally if we were any other business, we would have immediately had help,” Hackett said. “Whether it be the county, whether it be the state — someone needs to be held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longer term, Hackett said she fears climate change and economic obstacles will point her industry toward the same downward trajectory that wiped out many of the flower growers who once thrived in the same Monterey County greenhouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943673\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS21243_Grow-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Rows of bright green cannabis plants inside a greenhouse during the daytime.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS21243_Grow-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS21243_Grow-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS21243_Grow-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS21243_Grow-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS21243_Grow-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS21243_Grow-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS21243_Grow-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The inside of a cannabis greenhouse. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She isn’t alone in her frustrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joey Espinoza, a Salinas-raised cannabis compliance consultant, said several of his clients were directly affected by floodwaters, including one grower who had to evacuate plants from a flooded greenhouse. Even while the ground was still muddy, he said, many cannabis farmers have turned their attention to other pressing challenges in the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As cannabis remains illegal at the national level, Espinoza said, local growers shut out of federal financial aid are now confronting storm damage after a collapse in cannabis prices and while facing a tight deadline to apply for new state licenses by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry advocates say\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/02/emerald-triangle-cannabis-communities/\"> the economic turmoil\u003c/a> stems from a mix of overproduction of legal and illegal cannabis, as well as ever-changing taxes and regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s layers of issues with all of this,” Espinoza said. “And the thing to remember is, there’s not gonna be a lot of relief for cannabis in terms of FEMA and things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was unclear exactly what the state might do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Cannabis Control told CalMatters that, under current state law, \u003ca href=\"https://cannabis.ca.gov/resources/disaster-relief-programs/\">cannabis businesses affected by disasters may apply for temporary waivers of license requirements\u003c/a> if they become unable to meet regulatory requirements. State \u003ca href=\"https://cannabis.ca.gov/applicants/application-resources/\">licensing rules\u003c/a> govern everything from sometimes-costly infrastructure requirements to the way products are transported and secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All requests are reviewed on a case-by-case basis and aim to provide regulatory relief to licensees for impacts related to issues including flooding,” said David Hafner, department spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past the \u003ca href=\"https://cannabis.ca.gov/2021/09/disaster-relief-for-cannabis-businesses-affected-by-fires/\">department has offered support for cannabis growers\u003c/a> affected by wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few lawmakers voiced ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, some residents took matters into their own hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabino Orozco Avila was getting ready to serve dinner to neighbors gathered on a walkway above the rushing Pajaro River late Tuesday afternoon, a stone’s throw from his daughter’s home in Pajaro. While his daughter remained evacuated, Avila, owner of a longtime food business, Tacos Los Jacona — a nod to his Michoacán hometown — had prepared carne asada, rice and beans for the community that had long supported him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that people need me,” he said in Spanish, “I’ll be here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undocumented workers and cannabis businesses are, by law, ineligible for federally funded programs such as unemployment or aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now — after days of wind and rain and a Pajaro River levee failure flooded the area, displacing hundreds of people in Monterey County alone — details are lacking about how state officials would respond to calls to direct state funds and other disaster relief to these communities in the region known as \u003ca href=\"https://asmith.ucdavis.edu/news/whither-salinas-valley#:~:text=Salinas%20Valley%20grows%20almost%20half,over%2080%25%20of%20its%20artichokes.\">America’s salad bowl\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has stepped into the breach before, offering some \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/15/governor-newsom-announces-new-initiatives-to-support-california-workers-impacted-by-covid-19/\">support to undocumented workers\u003c/a> during the height of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/04/california-undocumented-immigrants/\">COVID-19 pandemic\u003c/a>, and to some cannabis farmers whose crops were \u003ca href=\"https://cannabis.ca.gov/resources/disaster-relief-programs/\">damaged in wildfires\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an issue complicated by competing political priorities and a projected \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/12/california-budget-deficit-safety-net/\">$24 billion state budget deficit\u003c/a> for the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is scheduled to survey flood and storm damage in Monterey County on March 15, including the inundated farmworker town of Pajaro. He will be getting an update from local officials, a spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Newsom planned his visit, many officials and advocates said they hope to hear how the state will help. A few lawmakers said they’re exploring legislative options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943670\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943670\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248040438-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view shows many buildings, homes, streets and cars flooded with brown water.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1430\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248040438-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248040438-800x447.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248040438-1020x570.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248040438-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248040438-1536x858.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248040438-2048x1144.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248040438-1920x1072.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view shows a flooded neighborhood in the unincorporated community of Pajaro in Watsonville, on March 11, 2023. Residents were forced to evacuate in the middle of the night after an atmospheric river storm surge broke the Pajaro levee and sent floodwaters flowing into the community. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to step up our efforts to help those who are undocumented and can’t earn a paycheck because of the current rains and floods,” said Assemblymember Miguel Santiago, a Democrat representing Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is co-sponsoring \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB227\">Senate Bill 227\u003c/a> to provide \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/02/california-safety-net/\">unemployment benefits\u003c/a> to undocumented Californians. About \u003ca href=\"https://clc.ucmerced.edu/sites/clc.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/fwhs_report_2.2.2383.pdf?_gl=1*pc2ynm*_ga*MTQ2ODM4OTYwMC4xNjc1Mzg4NTc3*_ga_TSE2LSBDQZ*MTY3ODg0OTMxNC4zLjEuMTY3ODg0OTMyMS41My4wLjA.\">6 in 10 farmworkers are not eligible for unemployment benefits (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santiago said the current situation is frustrating because he has advocated for years for more safety-net programs that could have helped families hurt by the flooding. If such legislation were in place, he said, “we’d be able to have a place where we could go get people some financial relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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At least 56 cannabis businesses have closed in Monterey County in recent years, according to a recent estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the water rose Friday morning, Hackett and her team who normally would be busy trimming plants or readying retail products instead shut down early to reinforce storm ditches and forge cement slabs into an impromptu flood wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, as another storm knocked out power at her two adjacent 10-acre farms, Hackett said she is unaware of any aid available for cannabis businesses affected by flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ideally if we were any other business, we would have immediately had help,” Hackett said. “Whether it be the county, whether it be the state — someone needs to be held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longer term, Hackett said she fears climate change and economic obstacles will point her industry toward the same downward trajectory that wiped out many of the flower growers who once thrived in the same Monterey County greenhouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943673\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS21243_Grow-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Rows of bright green cannabis plants inside a greenhouse during the daytime.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS21243_Grow-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS21243_Grow-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS21243_Grow-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS21243_Grow-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS21243_Grow-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS21243_Grow-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS21243_Grow-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The inside of a cannabis greenhouse. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She isn’t alone in her frustrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joey Espinoza, a Salinas-raised cannabis compliance consultant, said several of his clients were directly affected by floodwaters, including one grower who had to evacuate plants from a flooded greenhouse. Even while the ground was still muddy, he said, many cannabis farmers have turned their attention to other pressing challenges in the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As cannabis remains illegal at the national level, Espinoza said, local growers shut out of federal financial aid are now confronting storm damage after a collapse in cannabis prices and while facing a tight deadline to apply for new state licenses by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry advocates say\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/02/emerald-triangle-cannabis-communities/\"> the economic turmoil\u003c/a> stems from a mix of overproduction of legal and illegal cannabis, as well as ever-changing taxes and regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s layers of issues with all of this,” Espinoza said. “And the thing to remember is, there’s not gonna be a lot of relief for cannabis in terms of FEMA and things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was unclear exactly what the state might do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Cannabis Control told CalMatters that, under current state law, \u003ca href=\"https://cannabis.ca.gov/resources/disaster-relief-programs/\">cannabis businesses affected by disasters may apply for temporary waivers of license requirements\u003c/a> if they become unable to meet regulatory requirements. 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Those things are all illegal under state law now,” Haney told KQED.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Assemblymember Matt Haney\"]‘I hope that the governor, as a small-business owner himself in the past who has been involved in the hospitality industry, can now see this as an opportunity.’[/pullquote]The bill comes as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101890551/why-illegal-weed-is-booming-in-california\">California’s cannabis industry is struggling\u003c/a> — some say collapsing — under the weight of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/07/california-cannabis-tax/\">high taxation\u003c/a> and other factors that make buying pot on the illegal market more attractive than walking into a dispensary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s legislation would simply change state law to allow licensed cannabis stores to also sell food, nonalcoholic beverages and tickets for entertainment events — if local governments want that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people want to consume cannabis legally while socializing with others, and many want to do it while drinking coffee, eating a muffin or listening to music,” Haney said. “And there is absolutely no good reason from an economic, health, safety or fairness standpoint that the state should make those things illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney sees the diversification of cannabis businesses as a way to shore up struggling dispensaries by luring visitors for a unique experience they can’t find at home, while also helping to fill vacant storefronts and downtown corridors hollowed out by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s bill wouldn’t require this — it would simply allow local governments to decide whether to expand the range of products existing operators could offer. 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More than a dozen other states have done the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Prop. 64 left licensing up to local governments. California has more than 700 legally permitted dispensaries. San Francisco alone has more than 40, while Oakland has at least 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more than half of California cities and counties haven’t allowed cannabis businesses to operate in their jurisdictions — and taxation and competition from cheaper marijuana on the illegal market has pushed some operators out of business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s bill could help address some of those challenges by opening up new opportunities for revenue generation by cannabis sellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using Amsterdam as a model for San Francisco could be somewhat problematic. 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