How a Los Angeles cannabis license ownership change works under LAMC 104.03, the 51% Social Equity share rules, and what triggers a DCR Notice to Correct.
Continue reading ›What a DCR Notice of Revocation or Suspension means in Los Angeles, the 5-day appeal deadline, the 10-day hearing, reinstatement, and DCC fallout.
Continue reading ›What a Los Angeles DCR Notice of Violation means, the 15-day appeal clock, penalty factors, stipulated agreements, and how the LAMC 104.14 hearing works.
Continue reading ›Short answer: In the City of Los Angeles, you cannot buy or sell a licensed cannabis business by signing a purchase agreement. Every change to a licensed entity’s ownership structure requires prior written approval from the Los Angeles Department of Cannabis Regulation (DCR). The core filing is LIC-4004-MOD (Application Modification Request – Ownership Structure), submitted…
Continue reading ›A California cannabis cultivation license is issued by the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) under Business and Professions Code Division 10 and Title 4, Division 19 of the California Code of Regulations. As of 2026, only annual licenses are available — provisional cultivation licenses ended on January 1, 2026, and the statute that authorized them…
Continue reading ›Short answer: An emergency cannabis license revocation in Los Angeles moves fast. The Department of Cannabis Regulation (DCR) can move to revoke a cannabis license on an “emergency” track that gives the licensee as little as five days to appeal and orders the business to stop operating immediately. But that speed cuts both ways. Because…
Continue reading ›California’s Department of Cannabis Control has proposed one of the most consequential changes to cultivation compliance in years: group plant tagging, allowing licensees to tag groups of plants under a single unique identifier rather than affixing a tag to every plant. The proposal, DCC-2026-03-R, closed its public comment period on July 27, 2026, and now…
Continue reading ›On July 1, 2026, California’s new cannabis cultivation and sanitation rules from the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) took effect, trimming several long-standing reporting obligations for cultivators while introducing the state’s first dedicated minimum sanitation standards for licensees who handle exposed cannabis. These rules are now in force, and licensees should confirm their practices comply.…
Continue reading ›An Orange County judge has found that California’s cannabis track-and-trace system does not do something the law says it must: automatically flag irregular transactions for investigation. For every licensee that has spent years tagging inventory and reconciling manifests in METRC, the ruling is worth understanding. What the track-and-trace system ruling decided On August 4, 2026,…
Continue reading ›The California Department of Cannabis Control is moving to tighten the state’s seed-to-sale tracking system and shut down lab shopping, and the changes would reach nearly every licensee in the supply chain. The proposed rulemaking, designated DCC-2026-02-R: Track and Trace Updates, completed its written comment period on July 20, 2026, and the Department held a…
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