California marijuana business legslation

California has long had a strong culture of illegal cannabis cultivation in the backcountry of Northern California. Many of these growers have been supplying customers for decades. The simple existence of laws making it legal to grow cannabis doesn’t seem to phase them because they’re already growing and making money without having to jump through legal hoops. Business has been so good for the illegal producers that many have been able to ignore the need to 
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The Costa Mesa City Council is expected to vote tonight on whether to place two measures that would allow medical marijuana dispensaries in the city on the November ballot. If approved, voters will decide on two community-backed initiatives – one that allows eights dispensaries, and another that allows four. The Legislature passed three bills last year that would regulate dispensaries, giving various agencies the ability to track licensing and oversee growing, and track how edible 
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