CA-Problems with Cannabis Delivery
When the California Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC) first released its proposed medical cannabis regulations under the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MCRSA) last April, it created license types for laboratories, retailers, distributors, and transporters. Most people were surprised (and worried) when they found out that the MCRSA did not create a license type for cannabis delivery-only services. Under the MCRSA, only storefront medical retailers could deliver to a qualified patient or primary caregiver. Just like that, delivery services were about to be locked out of America’s biggest cannabis market.
As you can imagine, the BCC and state legislators were inundated with calls to their offices as well as comments at public hearings about the glaring omission of delivery licensure. Whether the BCC was going to rectify this mistake became moot upon the withdrawal of their emergency regulations. The regulations were withdrawn when the state legislature passed the Medical and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), which merged the MCRSA and the Adult-Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) under one regulatory regime.
