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State:

Hop latent viroid, is believed to be in 90% of the state’s farms. A new diagnostic test for the blight, from Oakland company Purple City Labs, may help.
SFGate
Pot taxes statewide are at a 13-quarter low and enforcement against unlicensed grows is up.
North Bay Business Journal

Local:

An activist expressed frustration with Santa Barbara Co. for approving a grow permit for the county’s “most-flagrant rule breaking” operator.
EdHat
Growers “won the first round” in a fight over water rights in Santa Barbara Co.
Santa Barbara Independent
Berkeley is considering a tax holiday for retailers.
East Bay Times
Mendocino supes agreed to work with the state to get provisional licenses converted to annual.
Redheaded Blackbelt

Equity:

As of 2020, Black Angelenos were still disproportionately arrested for weed.
Xtown.la

Crime:

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission obtained an emergency order to shut down WeedGenics, which the feds allege is a $60M ponzi scheme.
Reuters
A “serial Beverly Hills fraudster” is accused of starting a $9M hemp scam while under house arrest.
Courthouse News

Company milestones:

Cookies is opening its first shops in Baltimore and Orlando, (its second in Florida).
Lowell Farms announced a sale leaseback transaction with New Wilston Associates for a processing facility in Monterey Co.
StateHouse confirmed it had received another extension of its Series A debt obligations.
The California Cannabis Industry Association signed a deal with Green Flower enabling members to access Green Flower’s professional training courses.