People act like it’s COVID-complicated, but the essence of what’s holding pot back can be boiled down to an unfair tax burden and a breathtakingly tangled bureaucracy.
Cannabis Business Times
- There’s a bottleneck on legal access, a true bottleneck,” says Adam Spiker, executive director of the Southern California Coalition. “I’ve heard state regulators, many who are experts in the realm of growing, tell me that we’ve probably licensed a handful times more than all the product we would need to consume if everything was captured in the legal market currently.”