How California’s cannabiz defeated a labelling bill

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed A.B. 1207, a bill that would have banned cannabis companies from using images of people in their labelling and marketing materials. Though watered down from a previous version of the bill, the industry argued the burden would fall especially hard on equity businesses and craft farmers, for whom identity is central to their brand.

Supporters of the bill framed it as a way to reduce the number of children going to the ER after . . .