[ad_1] A California man has been extradited to the U.K. to face manslaughter charges over the death of a woman at his 2016 slapping therapy workshop. An investigation was opened in October, 2016 when 71-year-old Danielle Carr-Gomm was found dead in her hotel room at Cleeve House in Seend, Wiltshire. Carr-Gomm had recently attended a paida lajin retreat, which is a form of therapy from China wherein a person vigorously slaps certain parts of the…
"California Man Charged with Manslaughter Over “Slapping Therapy” Death"Tag: California
[ad_1] At the beginning of the summer, I wrote a post entitled “California Gives Up on the Illegal Cannabis Market” in which I went into detail about the state’s failure to meaningfully address the festering illegal market. More recently, I wrote about “Another California Cannabis Enforcement Program That Won’t Work.” As the name suggests, this post was about yet another performative effort by the state to create an enforcement program that won’t be widely used and…
"California Gives Up on the Illegal Cannabis Market: An Update"
[ad_1] It’s no secret that the cannabis industry is on a steep decline in a variety of states, including California. We have time and again written about the specific woes plaguing the California cannabis industry. High taxes, a staggering credit crunch and collections problems, receiverships, rampant local prohibition, overregulation by the state, and the raging illegal market are just a few. Now, queue the California cannabis voters who may have initially supported this democratic experiment…
"California Cannabis Repeal? A Humboldt County Study"
[ad_1] California’s cannabis industry is a mess. Between the rampant illegal market, onerous taxation, unnecessarily complicated regulations, debt defaults, and a host of other factors, things have never been worse. Businesses big and small are imploding. Without federal bankruptcy protection, the best tool available to insolvent and nearly insolvent companies is gone. So we’re going to start to see a huge uptick in alternative methods of dealing with failing cannabis businesses: receiverships. What is a…
"Cannabis Receiverships Are Coming to California"
[ad_1] Cannabis is supposed to be relaxing and fun. What’s not to like about giggles, munchies, and a brief break from the mundane? Unfortunately, news from California’s Emerald Triangle is anything but upbeat these days. Report after report portends doom with headlines like “the world’s largest legal weed market is going up in smoke” (The Economist), “California pot industry facing ‘extinction event‘” (SF Gate), “Despair in Emerald Triangle as CA legal cannabis collapses” (CalMatters), and “Legal cannabis…
"Dumpster Fire: What Went Wrong with California Cannabis?"
[ad_1] Colorado has had the most success with legalized cannabis. They reduced the black market, provided reasonable taxes that made products competitive for the consumer sand the capped income, so people feel they get a “deal”. Comparatively, California has been the cookie monster of greed – creating havoc in the industry and hurting small businesses and the equity players they say they want to help. NYC’s failed rollout has paved for the way for over…
"How Did Maine Get Legal Weed Right, While California and Others Struggled?"
[ad_1] On April 20, my colleague Hilary Bricken wrote a post entitled, “Cannabis Collections Headaches and What to Do.” In it, she discussed a problem that’s been plaguing California cannabis businesses throughout: distributors and retailers that don’t pay their bills. Towards the end of the article, she mentioned a piece of proposed legislation to address the problem, AB 766, which would allow – and even require – the state to police cannabis contracts. While I’m…
"Will California Soon Police Cannabis Contracts?"
[ad_1] About two hours after first responding, a sheriff’s deputy noticed the suspect, Zhao, in his car parked outside a sheriff’s substation in a strip mall and arrested him, recognising the car by its license plate. A video of the arrest showed three officers approaching a parked car with drawn weapons. Zhao got out of the car, and the officers pulled him to the ground, put him in handcuffs, and led him away. A weapon…
"Seven people killed in California mass shooting"
[ad_1] The year 2022 was a busy one for the California cannabis industry, with everything from tax reform to the beginning of enforcement. In this post, I’ll go back through some of the highlight’s for California’s cannabis industry last year. California hints at enforcement? Anyone who knows anything about California cannabis knows that the regulators simply do not take enforcement seriously. Probably the biggest complaint our California cannabis team hears is just how bad of a…
"A Look Back at California Cannabis in 2022"
[ad_1] Brentwood, California officials are fed up with the uptick in home cultivation violations and did something about it. On July 12, the Brentwood City Council intensified the rules on the home cultivation of cannabis—taking the rules beyond the legal six-plant limit inside a personal residence. Administrative citations may be issued—per plant—for any plants that are grown beyond the legal limit. The measure was approved by the Brentwood City Council by a 4-0 vote, with…
"California City to Charge Separate Violations Per Illegal Plant"