California Hashish provisional licensing is starting its wind down course of on the finish of this month. Here’s what’s occurring:
- Till June 30, 2022, with sure exceptions, the Division of Hashish Management (“DCC”) could concern provisional licenses provided that candidates submit a whole annual hashish license utility with the corresponding price on or earlier than March 31, 2022.
- From June 30, 2022, and till September 30, 2022, the DCC could concern provisoinal licenses to outside growers with lower than 20,000 sq. ft of cover in the event that they correctly apply for provisional licensing earlier than June 30, 2022.
- After June 30, 2022, and till June 30, 2023, the DCC could concern provisional licenses to native fairness candidates as long as they’re eligible and correctly apply for licensing earlier than March 31, 2023.
- California hashish provisional licenses is not going to be efficient as of January 1, 2026.
Hashish provisional licensing is presently managed by Section 15001 of the California Code of Regulations that govern business hashish exercise. Hashish provisional licenses are a way to finish for operation, whereas licensees pursue an annual hashish license from the state.
The identical laws that apply to annual hashish licenses additionally apply to hashish provisional licensing. Simply since you obtain a hashish provisional license doesn’t imply you’re assured to get an annual hashish license. To proceed to carry and renew a provisional till 2026, you will need to “actively and diligently” pursue an annual license.
For those who’re neither a smaller outside cultivator nor an fairness applicant, what do it is advisable to do earlier than the top of this month to make sure that you get your provisional license? Primary is to fill out and submit an annual license utility to the DCC together with the required licensing price. The required annual license utility data may be discovered at Part 15002 of the California hashish laws. All purposes will probably be submitted on-line through the state’s licensing portal. The annual utility, itself, requires a variety of details about the enterprise, together with a whole listing of monetary curiosity holders, the corporate’s SEIN, sure company documentation, proof of compliance with CEQA (or exemption therefrom), proof of proper to actual property, a premises diagram, and way more.
For those who’re a cultivation provisional license applicant, life is just a little tougher. Along with the entire data required by 15002, cultivation candidates should present the DCC with:
A ultimate streambed alteration settlement; or a draft streambed alteration settlement offered by the Division of Fish and Wildlife and signed and returned to the Division of Fish and Wildlife; or Written verification by the Division of Fish and Wildlife {that a} streambed alteration settlement isn’t wanted; or Written verification by the Division of Fish and Wildlife that the applicant submitted a notification described in part 1602 of the Fish and Sport Code, submitted fee of relevant charges pursuant to part 1609 of the Fish and Sport Code, and is attentive to the Division of Fish and Wildlife as prescribed in part 26050.2 of the Enterprise and Professions Code.
Additional, now that we’re handed January 1, 2022, if any provisional license issuance would trigger a cultivation applicant to “maintain a number of cultivation licenses on contiguous premises to exceed one acre of whole cover for outside cultivation, or 22,000 sq. ft for mixed-light or indoor cultivation,” the provisional license utility will probably be rejected.
The principle concern with the total pursuit of the annual license (not simply filling out the applying utterly and paying the price) is traversing CEQA–a provisional license is supposed to maintain you operational whilst you undergo the headache of CEQA in pursuit of your annual license. We wrote about that right here when provisional licenses had been first launched, and right here once more because the state debated what to do in regards to the immense delay it was inflicting licensees.
The underside line is that should you miss this March 31 deadline, the one path ahead to licensing is the annual license utility itself, which requires proof of full compliance with or exemption from CEQA. That would take many months to perform, considerably delaying operations. So, don’t wait till the final minute to get all of your geese in a row in your provisional license!