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Cannabis Licensing in California
This site focuses or refers to information and services regarding dried flower licensing cannabis third-party testing laboratories persons with a financial interest in the cannabis business evidence of rehabilitation 2024 issues Proposition 64: The Adult Use of Cannabis Act of 2016 BUREAU OF CANNABIS CONTROL 600-foot radius of a school onsite sale and consumption of cannabis goods Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970 (PPPA) 2024 revisions allergen information minimum standards for extraction processes Category I Residual Pesticides Testing product formulation 2,000 mg of THC per package for the medicinal-use market persons 21 years of age or older manufacturing cannabis products Application Checklist retailers motor carrier permit Manufactured Cannabis Safety Branch (MCSB) packaging cannabis market no infusion of alcohol commercial cannabis activity Physical address Form # CDPH-9041 CalCannabis Cultivation Licensing Premises Information manufacturing (Level 1 manufacturing, Type 6) 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