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09/25/2025

A Los Angeles delivery service sued Weedmaps’ parent company alleging the site, known as the Yelp of pot, accepts advertising from unlicensed California retailers, harming the state’s legal market.

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08/28/2025

Honored to say last June’s Los Angeles Times / WeedWeek investigation into pesticide contamination in California's licensed market is a finalist for the The Gerald Loeb Awards & Foundation for business journalism.

Working with Paige St. John and her colleagues Adam Elmahrek, Sean Greene and Lorena Elebee was a career highlight and I remain very grateful for the opportunity.

More than a year after the first story was published, the Department of Cannabis Control says it’s confident most products on shelves meet state pesticide standards, but it has offered no evidence. Similar risks almost certainly exist in other states as well.

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More than a year since the story was published, the Department of Cannabis Control Control has said it’s confident the majority of products on California shelves meet state standards for pesticides. It has not provided any evidence to support the claim. Similar problems almost certainly exist in other states as well.

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08/25/2025

A new court filing from SoCal-based retailer Catalyst provides extensive new technical details on the California Department of Cannabis Control’s (DCC) alleged failure to stop diversion from California’s licensed supply chain.

Accompanied by more than 1,000 pages of exhibits, including depositions with DCC technical staff, the filing alleges the agency has never fulfilled its duty to require track and trace software provider Metrc to automatically flag irregular transactions for investigation. After four years of closely-watched litigation, the filing previews Catalyst’s arguments in its October trial against the DCC

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07/16/2025

California operator Glass House has signed numerous labor peace agreements (LPAs) with the Seafarers Entertainment and Allied Trades Union (SEATU) which is not active in the cannabis industry.

“We’re completely out of the mix with the cannabis industry and have been for a while. So, we have nothing to do with those companies,” a spokesman for SEATU’s parent union told WeedWeek.

Asked for more information, he responded in full, “Those agreements all were terminated … last year, I think. But we’ve been out of the picture for a while.”

Glass House has attracted national attention since raided its California farms last week. The company declined to comment.

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07/12/2025

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06/30/2025

A distributor affiliated with popular brand .california sued the California Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) last month alleging the agency used a “rigged” recall process to deprive it of its rights and unfairly impose significant costs on the company.

The Sacramento Co. lawsuit also seeks to eliminate the DCC’s current “zero-tolerance” policy for w**d contaminated with the mold aspergillus. Connected argues the approach is “arbitrary and capricious” and not backed by the scientific evidence.

This year the DCC has stepped up recalls…

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06/24/2025

A judge said she was “troubled” and “concerned” about whether a testing lab received due process before the California Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) shut it down in April.

In a lawsuit filed soon after, BelCosta Labs alleged that it’s closure resembled other recent shutdowns where the DCC has repeatedly “gamed the system…with the specific intent” of depriving licensees of due process. “The DCC has deployed this strategy before and very likely will again,” BelCosta’s lawyer Robert Finkle of Armada Law Corp. alleged in a court filing.

“Our country is premised on things not being a star chamber and at least knowing what you’re facing,” Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Jennifer Rockwell said. However, she rejected…

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06/18/2025

The California Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) proposed changes to pesticide regulation that would impose significant new costs and likely drive many labs out of business, according to the agency. The stricter rules, released Friday, would require testing for additional pesticides and create new systems for measuring the presence of pesticides and appropriate limits for each.

The proposed changes, which would be the most significant reworking to pesticide testing since California’s REC market opened…

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06/03/2025

An influential consultancy faces allegations of negligence and civil rights violations in the latest chapter of a six-year legal battle. In a federal lawsuit, an unsuccessful applicant alleges Hinderliter de Llamas (HdL) “conspired” with the city of Chula Vista (San Diego Co.) to improperly deny it dispensary licenses.

Plaintiff CaliGrown seeks $14M in damages.

Orange County-based HdL is widely regarded as the leading consultancy for mid-wifing cities and counties though the licensing process. HdL has filed a motion to dismiss, arguing, among other points, that CaliGrown “is engaged in activity that is illegal under federal law.”

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05/16/2025

Police had to be called in after disruptive licensees and their allies shut down an oversight committee meeting in Los Angeles yesterday. There were no arrests, a source said.

Footage posted, and apparently taken by, Elliot Lewis, CEO of 30-store retailer Catalyst Cannabis, shows about a dozen cops…

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04/12/2025

Regulatory software provider Metrc may have breached its agreements with state governments by attempting to “conceal” information about an acquisition, a whistleblower alleges. In a text message, Metrc CEO Michael Johnson told the plaintiff to take down a social media post, so states wouldn’t learn the company bought a start-up that “sell[s] to licensees,” the suit alleges.

Metrc didn’t respond to requests for comment. In a statement to MJBiz, the company called the allegations in the lawsuit “baseless,” and part of a retaliatory campaign from an employee fired for “performance issues.” “The falseness of these claims will be proven in court,” the statement says.

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04/10/2025

California’s Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) engaged in a “conspiracy” with a software provider so the agency could collect taxes on illegal, interstate cannabis sales, a whistleblower lawsuit alleges.

The suit, filed in Oregon federal court this month, alleges regulatory software company Metrc was “providing cover,” for product diversion from California’s licensed market, and the DCC’s inability to prevent it. Former Metrc executive Marcus Estes alleges the company was “turning a blind eye to the data, even though its contract required…

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