| California’s cannabis businesses are up against many obstacles, including high taxes, a lack of retail outlets and competition with the still-thriving illicit market. Now, new legislation in Sacramento could pose a new challenge: additional warning label requirements.
As Cannabis Business Times previously reported, Sen. Richard Pan introduced Senate Bill 1097, the Cannabis Right to Know Act, in mid-February to require a new warning label on all cannabis products starting in January 2025. As outlined in the legislation, the warning label would need to cover “1/3 of the front or principal face of a product … in the largest type possible for the area.” A series of warnings would be provided by the state and rotated among batches of products.
Industry stakeholders shared their strong opposition to the bill with Cannabis Business Times Managing Editor Patrick Williams this week. Read the full story below.
“There are all sorts of implications of this kind of legislation—the Pan bill—which are just not thought out,” said Tiffany Devitt, chief of regulatory affairs at CannaCraft and vice president of the California Cannabis Industry Association’s board of directors. “It's just that kind of knee-jerk Reefer Madness, where [the legislators] are not thinking it through because those biases are getting in the way.”
How have regulators in your state responded to consumer safety concerns in the cannabis market? Are California regulators overreaching or justified in their push for additional warning labels? - Melissa Schiller, Senior Digital Editor | 
