(This story originally appeared in the April 2023 issue of MJBizMagazine.)
A state’s cannabis regulations can run hundreds of pages and contain even more rules.
But the regulators who create these rules and law enforcement officials who enforce them care the most about three things:
Preventing diversion to the illicit market. The physical security of cannabis operations. A potential drain on law enforcement and community resources.
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To stay compliant and maintain good relations with regulators and law enforcement, cannabis businesses should focus their security efforts around these three goals.
“In terms of diversion, they want to make sure that you have established standard operating procedures and processes that will prevent anything from happening internally,” said Anthony Vanderhorst, the security director at Florida-based multistate operator Jushi Holdings.
“From the physical security standpoint, the focus is really to stop external things from happening. When you put those two
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