February 11 2023,

THE BIG IDEA

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  • Mendo growers demand “urgent” state intervention
  • Judge rules cannabis user gun ban unconstitutional

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Courtesy: Mendocino Cannabis Alliance

Mendocino County growers demand urgent intervention

A group representing Mendocino County growers has requested an “urgent [state] intervention” to accelerate the county’s licensing process. In a 16-page memo to Governor Gavin Newsom and Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) executive director Nicole Elliott, it argues delays by the county government have pushed small and legacy growers to “the brink of irreversible failure.”

The bureaucratic morass in some of the most hallowed cannabis terroir comes on top of miserable market conditions that have legacy growers leaving the legal market statewide.

In the memo, Mendocino Cannabis Alliance executive director Michael Katz writes that nearly six years into the licensing process, the county has “struggled to establish a functional permit application system.”

As of late January, the memo says, only six of the counties’ 623 of state cultivation licenses (<1%) had been transitioned from provisional to annual. Next door in Humboldt, 882 of the 1,414 state licenses…

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Judge rules gun ban for cannabis users unconstitutional

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A federal law banning gun ownership by cannabis users is unconstitutional, an Oklahoma federal judge ruled.
Reuters

Trump appointee Patrick Wyrick dismissed an indictment against a man charged with violating the ban saying it infringed on his Second Amendment rights.

  • Wyrick said that while the government can protect the public from dangerous people possessing guns, it could not argue Jared Harrison’s “mere status as a user of marijuana justifies stripping him of his fundamental right to possess a firearm.”
  • He said using marijuana was “not in and of itself a violent, forceful, or threatening act,” 

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