CULTIVATORS California Code of Regulations, Title 3 (Food and Agriculture), Division 8 (Cannabis Cultivation), Chapter 1, Section 8000(h) defines cultivation as “any activity involving the planting, growing, harvesting, drying, curing, grading, or trimming of cannabis.” Persons involved in these activities include landowners, lessees, executives and workers who develop, grow and service cannabis plants. License types […]
In 1913 California became the first state to criminalize marijuana use and possession. Over the years increasing penalties exacted on a state and federal level led to significant incarceration, particularly of non-white populations. Despite attempts in 1972 and 2010 CA voters have refused to decriminalize marijuana. Since then Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington have done so. This year polls […]
The Attorney General’s Guidelines regarding medical marijuana collectives or cooperatives states: “Nothing allows marijuana to be purchased from outside the collective or cooperative for distribution to its members. Instead, the cycle should be a closed-circuit of marijuana cultivation and consumption with no purchases or sales to or from non-members.” (Page 10) The foregoing statement is […]
In 2001, I represented a client who was charged with possession of concentrated cannabis in violation of California Health and Safety Code section 11357(a), a felony. Despite the fact that my client had obtained, before he was arrested in possession of hash, a letter from his physician recommending the use of “medical cannabis,” the Santa […]
