A letter from California Attorney General Rob Bonta to state regulators all but ended marijuana industry hopes of interstate cannabis commerce.
In a 36-page letter sent Dec. 19 to the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC), the state’s chief cannabis regulator, Bonta wrote that marijuana activity between legal out-of-state businesses and California licensees could result in “significant legal risk to the State of California under the federal Controlled Substances Act.”
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The warning – first reported by Marijuana Moment – is not a surprise, considering federal prohibition of the plant, which cast long odds a state law allowing such sales would be put to the test.
California hopes for interstate cannabis sales rose in September 2022, when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1326 to create interstate commerce pacts, overriding a longstanding prohibition on the transportation and distribution of marijuana products across state lines.
Enactment of the law, however, was
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