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Operators who remember making $5,000 to $30,000 a week out of a storefront with no shelves weren't selling better weed. They were selling scarcity, and scarcity was never a permanent feature of this market.
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A handful of states built real structural protection for small cultivators into their licensing law. Federal legalization has no equivalent yet, and the clock on building one is shorter than it looks.
Cannabis equity in California runs through local ordinances, not a state program. Here's who has one and what they actually offer.
How California's cannabis statutes, DCC regulations, and local ordinances actually stack together, and what each layer controls.
From the 1996 Compassionate Use Act to the 2021 creation of the DCC, how California cannabis law actually got built, year by year.
State legalization set a ceiling on what California cities can restrict, not a floor requiring them to allow cannabis businesses at all.
