Marijuana Business Magazine - January 2017

California Regulators released long-awaited rules that will govern the state’s emerging cannabis sector from fields to sales. Initially, the state will issue only temporary licenses to growers and retailers, provided they have a local permit to open for business. Other changes appeared significant: Preliminary information from the state indicated a maximum 1-acre cap would be set on most cultivators. In what would be a major shift, the regulations did not include that language, placing limits on only certain growers’ licenses. Colorado Federal drug authorities sent another round of warning letters to CBD producers about making health claims. The recipients included CW Hemp, the Colorado Springs company that supplies the popular Charlotte’s Web medicine for intractable epilepsy. The Food and Drug Administration sent four warning letters to two Colorado companies – CW Hemp and Pueblo-based That’s Natural! Marketing & Consulting – as well as to Greenroads Health of Pembroke Pines, Florida, and Natural Alchemist of El Dorado Hills, California.