MMJ Investors Forum

[JohnCM]

Roughly two weeks ahead of the Jan. 1 launch of California’s legal cannabis market, state regulators have granted the first batch of temporary cannabis business licenses.

On Thursday, the Bureau of Cannabis Control issued 20 licenses for medical and adult-use operations, including retailers, distributors, microbusinesses, and a testing laboratory. Though the licenses have now been granted, they won’t be valid until Jan. 1.

The companies that received licenses stretch from San Diego to Shasta County and include:

Pure CA (Lynwood) — distributor, medical and adult-use

Buddy’s Cannabis (San Jose) — microbusiness, medical and adult-use

HERBL Distribution Solutions (Santa Rosa) — distributor, medical

Golden State Sciences (King City) — distributor, medical

Yes (Monrovia) — laboratory testing

Torrey Holistics (San Diego) — retailer, medical and adult-use

KindPeoples (Santa Cruz) — retailer, medical and adult-use (x2, for two separate locations); distributor, medical and adult-use; microbusiness, medical and adult-use

Hueneme Patient Consumer Co-op (Port Hueneme) — retailer, medical

530 Cannabis (Shasta Lake) — retailer, medical and adult-use

To date, more than 200 applications have been submitted through the Bureau of Cannabis Control’s online system, according to a bureau press release, with many more expected to roll in during the coming months. So far more than 1,900 users have registered with the system, the bureau said.

Products manufacturers, meanwhile, are licensed by the state Department of Public Health’s, which began accepting applications through its website last week. The a department spokesperson told Leafly via email that so far eight temporary licenses have been issued.