NEW BILL WOULD TIGHTEN APPELLATIONS RULES

On Tuesday, the state legislature got its first look at an appellations bill that would refine the state’s new geographic indications program. Redheaded Blackbelt

• SB 67 was introduced by Sen. Mike McGuire (D-Healdsburg) and Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Santa Rosa). The legislation would “limit the establishment of appellations of origin to cannabis planted in the ground, in open air, with no artificial light during the flowering stage of cultivation until harvest.”