Calif. industry faces CEQA crunch

Speaking before a California State Senate committee in March, Jetty Extracts CEO Ron Gershoni described the process of receiving an annual California distribution license. It took 1,901 days — more than five years — from application to receipt. It involved exchanging hundreds of emails with 19 separate email accounts across two state agencies, the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) and its predecessor the Bureau of Cannabis Control.

It required, he continued, submitting hundreds of pages of forms and spending more than $1M on lawyers, consultants, fees, equipment, warehouse space, vault rooms and . . .