California Department of Cannabis Control

We did some B2B stuff with this cannabis dispensaries.

And then at the same time, a lot of the cannabis dispensaries in California stopped carrying our products because the Bureau of Cannabis Control in California started enforcing on licensed dispensaries because they're not allowed to sell hemp-derived CBD supplements.

It was like a perfect storm of all of that in addition to everybody and their mother coming into the CBD industry space and making a pet CBD company.

I mean, you had Martha Stewart with her CBD company producing CBD pet products.

It's a good one, Chris, and basically dates back to when Governor Newsom, our governor in California, broke up and divided the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency into effectively two separate agencies.

And it created what's now the California Business and Consumer Services Agency, the BCSA, and Rohit Chopra is the secretary, the very first and inaugural secretary of the BCSA, which now sits over several state agencies, starting with the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, the Department of Consumer Affairs, the Department of Real Estate, the Department of Cannabis Control, and the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, the ABC.

And the goal is to sort of bring all of these consumer protection agencies under one umbrella, focusing on consumer protection specifically and separating out state housing and homelessness and other issues to the, uh, second and separate agency that was created.

Today, I think we wanna focus on the DFPI, the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, as it really is gonna bring a lot of, we think over the next short-term and long-term regulatory oversight in the consumer financial services area in California.

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the ERA economics report that was commissioned by the state's Department of Cannabis Control.

Let me just open that up and, uh- Oh yeah, you would.

Calm down, Bowie

Most recently, Mooma served as director of communications for Modesto City Schools.

Before joining Modesto City, Mooma held communications roles at the state and county levels, including Cal Recycle and the California Department of Cannabis Control.

Prior to transitioning into public sector communications, Mooma spent 17 years in television journalism, including serving as bureau chief for KCRA News in the Sacramento market.

Her early career saw stops at KTVU and the Oakland A's Diamond Vision Productions.

Okay, so let's head to California because Marijuana Moment is reporting that the state's top cannabis official says the DEA has shown virtually no interest in helping state regulators understand how President Trump's cannabis rescheduling changes are actually supposed to work.

And considering California operates the largest legal cannabis market in the country, that's not exactly a small issue either, is it? So the California Department of Cannabis Control Director Clint Kellum says his agency has received no formal implementation guidance from DEA headquarters.

He says California officials have been trying to communicate with the DEA to better understand what federal regulators will expect from operators.

And so far right now, guess what? Not much luck.