By Griffen Thorne on January 17, 2019
Yesterday afternoon, on January 16, 2019, the California Office of Administrative Law (“OAL) finally approved the sets of final regulations under it had been reviewing after submissions from the California Department of Public Health (“CDPH”) which regulates cannabis manufacturers, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (“CDFA”) which regulates cultivators, and the Bureau of Cannabis Control (“BCC”) which regulates distributors, retailers, event organizers, and testing laboratories. You can find the final regulations here.
The three sets of regulations follow on the heels of final proposed regulations that the CDPH, CDFA, and BCC submitted to the OAL for its review in December. We will be providing some overview of the key components of the final regulations shortly, but it looks upon initial review like these regulations adopted most or all of what was submitted for review in December.
These regulations are “final”, meaning cannabis operators and applicants no longer need to worry about discrepancies between emergency regulations (which as of now are no longer effective per the OAL’s statement) and whatever version of proposed regulations were then out in the ether. But though these regulations are “final”, we’re pretty positive that there will be changes and modifications—probably on a more incremental level—in the future.