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Calif. Law Requires Medical Marijuana Business License by 2018


According to a new legislature in California, it will be mandatory to get a state license for medical marijuana businesses by 2018 and the state retains the right to decline the applications for those who have a history of drug felony charges.

The new law is likely to have a negative impact on several growers and sellers of marijuana, who intended to submit an application for the state licenses but have a history associated with offensive drug charges, according to industry leaders. Casey O'Neill, the Board Chairman of the California Growers Association, which is a group of 500 members that cultivate cannabis in California, suggested that this law will pose major concerns because 25% to 30% of the association’s members have records of felony drug convictions.

O’Neill conducts cannabis cultivation at HappyDay Farms in Mendocino and has been charged with wrongful cultivation of marijuana in 2009.

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