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RE: Green Light, Red Tape: Recreational Pot having a Slow Rollout
Great post! It is definitely true that the transition almost has to be better here in California because of what you stated. I know my local shop has been making little changes here and there, as they wait for all the paperwork to go through, to open up to rec. Meanwhile their medical operations are still running smoothly, and surely 90%+ of the rec operations will overlap, allowing for a probable smooth start once they get the green light.
That’s actually the opposite of what they did in Oregon.
What they did here was for the first year and a half of the program(I think they ended up needing an extension and it was supposed to be a year, ) they had everything running through the Oregon Health Authority, who had been and still administers the medical side of the system.
But the law we passed stipulated that the rec side be regulated and taxed by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission.
Problem is, at the time of passing, the OLCC was working on no such plans, so they had to start from the ground up.
Finally the change happened on Jan 1st of last year.
The transition was awful. Everyone had flower, but on the day that the limit on concentrates was supposed to increase from 1g per person per store per day to 6g, all but 2 of the 20+ testing labs that were operating in the state at that point had to shut down, because they didn’t meet the new standards, and most couldn’t afford to buy the equipment required to do so(gas chromatography is expensive.)
So between the 92 pages in legalese store owners got that day, and the shutdown of the testing labs, product disappeared, and until things got back on track, it was tough enough to find 1 gram of anything for a reasonable price.
Things are great now, especially with delivery, which we’ve only gotten in the last 6 months. But still, we aren’t even finished here...