Mastodawn

Today in California cannabis compliance theater: this is our official sign in/sign out sheet for non-employees (e.g. contractors or vendors) who enter certain areas of the business.

Thing is? We're a small operation and no one but employees ever enters the area behind the counter. Since we have no data, there is no list, though if there ever is any data to record, the law allows us to create a list in whatever form we wanted (crayon, digital database, clay tablet, etc.).

During a recent inspection, the Department of Cannabis Control issued a violation for not having this list. I am appealing this because they are wrong, according to state law, but in the meantime I complied with their wishes and sent them this photo.

#Cannabis #ComplianceTheater #RegulatoryTheater #Bureaucracy

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PlantHumboldt Cannabis Nursery May 23, 2024

Now, imagine this kind of stupid compliance theater times 100, day in and day out. Some things, like this one, take a moment and don't really cost any money. Most of the other absurd nonsensical regulations that we have to comply with cost money, time and add friction to what should be a normal, unremarkable business operation. At least 80% of the rules don't actually accomplish anything useful.

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My camera shoots fascists May 22, 2024

Boosting this from my personal account because this is the kind of garbage that I have to spend my time doing this time of the year (hence my previous post about "Captain is made").

When they did their inspection, they issued us a ton of violations, a couple of which were technically true, in the most minor sense, but the rest were completely wrong. So now I have to file appeals when I should be running a business and taking care of plants and customers and employees.

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Stoney Takes May 22, 2024

@Mikal You just need to grow 1000’s of units of flower, remove it as “waste” from METRC and sell to traditional market brokers. They’ll leave you alone entirely.

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My camera shoots fascists May 23, 2024

@Stoneycase

No, I need to come up with some bogus plan to corner the market, get $100 million in investment, pay myself a massive salary, lose money for years while putting all the legacy growers out of business, don't pay anyone, file for bankruptcy of the company, and then retire with my fat savings leaving investors and vendors holding the bag. That's the name of the game in California legal weed these days. And all the politicians and bureaucrats love that game. They truly hate people like us.