The first 60 days of the “legal” cannabis industry in California were quite a spectacle. Lawsuits, the local uproar in several counties, high taxes, cease and desists from the Bureau of Cannabis Control, plummeting prices, and an overall unsteadiness in the California cannabis industry as a whole. It’s time for a course correction, but how?
The demonization of cannabis created a social stigmatization so convoluted that we are just now starting to see it unravel, but is the unraveling happening too fast? Is it forgetting Dennis Perone, the movement behind Proposition 215, and the intentions of medicinal cannabis?
The Bay Area has been a hub for retail cannabis longer than anywhere else in the country. People have been visiting pseudo dispensaries in this area to purchase their medicine since before the passage of Prop 215 in 1996, otherwise known as “The Compassionate Use Act.”
When I was talking to my family, they asked some interesting questions about cannabis. I spend a lot of time in the pro-cannabis bubble, so it’s easy to forget that we’re building a brand new industry. Naturally, many people will have questions about cannabis, and we’d love to help people learn more.
