Since January Humboldt County officials have been telling local marijuana farmers that they had until Aug. 23 to register their current growing operations and thereby qualify for “good standing” status and priority processing when it comes time for state licensure. The county received well over 2,000 registrations applications before that deadline. But now it seems the cutoff date may have been more flexible than it seemed.
On Friday the county issued a press release announcing that its Cannabis Services Division “will continue to accept [permit] applications from both new and existing operators through the end of the year, regardless of whether they completed a registration form.”
In other words, cannabis cultivators will be allowed to apply for permits with the status of “existing” grow operations despite missing the Aug. 23 deadline, though they won’t receive “good standing” status. This announcement has prompted a local marijuana advocacy group to renew its threat of a legal challenge to the county’s Medical Marijuana Land Use Ordinance (MMLUO).
