As the day to celebrate marijuana nears, legal operators have concerns.
The Artist Tree’s “budtender” Chris Flores, center, speaks with customer Andres Jaimes about the prerolled types of cannabis available at the licensed cannabis dispensary in the Highgrove area of Riverside County on Wednesday, April 17, 2024.
The Artist Tree, a licensed cannabis dispensary in the Highgrove area of Riverside County, sells a range of cannabis, including edible-based products, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. “If you look at a lot of businesses that are based outside of California, they’ve left California since 2022,” Lange said. Lange added: “The older the market gets, the more people the more business entities are able to adjust to the supply and demand. And basically in California, if you have too much flower being grown or too much bud being grown and not enough retail outlets to sell it at, then you’re going to have that oversupply and cause flower prices to go down.”
“A bunch of these businesses in California are already behind on their excise taxes,” Lange said. “If you raise the tax rate, these businesses are just going to go out of business and there’s going to be less tax money given to the state.” “The lack of enforcement is a real issue because now you’ve got operators out there just operating willy-nilly without paying the taxes and the regulations and the cost,” Piazza said.
“So once you’re at the point where you’re submitting your plans to the city, you’ve got to get through your safety and your fire and all this wonderful jazz,” Piazza said. “And they’ll keep coming back … with revisions. ‘Oh hey, we need a special kind of pipe right here that you’re not showing.’”
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