California’s Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) is the state’s primary cannabis regulatory authority. DCC’s predecessor agencies often gave several days’ advance notice before an inspection. Since its formation, DCC has taken a vastly different – and more aggressive – approach to cannabis inspections. Our California cannabis team is now seeing drop-in, no notice DCC inspections as a matter of course. The “lucky” licensees will get 24-48 hours heads’ up.
Given all of this, licensees need to prepare for a DCC inspection at any time. And as you can guess, this is an issue for a lot of folks in the industry. While DCC inspectors can look for any kind of defect in a licensee’s operations, there are some big-picture issues that inspectors are looking for. They include things like:
Track and Trace Compliance
Hands down one of the most common things we hear about from businesses facing inspections is questions about METRC compliance. Having plants or batches properly tagged, stored, and entered into the track and trace system is the bane of many operators’ existence. Failing to do so by the books can lead to immediate issues for inspectors. It’s not uncommon for the agency to send notices of compliance
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