For the past eight years, the 710 holiday has mirrored the growth of the cannabis industry in California. The hash-focused holiday started as an underground event in 2010, before the first official event was held in 2013. Then, as the dab scene experienced a flourishing of fantastic sesh and party events happening on a weekly basis throughout the mid-2010s, the annual compound growth rate of hype levels associated with 710 matched that of the wider burgeoning cannabis industry.<\/p>\n
However, much like the rest of California\u2019s cannabis industry this year, 710 celebrations are facing more obstacles as the state\u2019s new cannabis regulations kick in. As the vision of the industry in California continues down opposite paths for regulators and longtime producers, the event scene has obviously been devastated \u2014 namely, the postponement of the Chalice festival.<\/p>\n
The hash, glass and music celebration has spent the last few years climbing the ranks of the California summer festival circuit until it reached mainstream status. Chalice drew acts like Ice Cube and the surviving members of the Wu-Tang Clan, and saw attendance numbers climb each year. This year, however, the city council in Victorville \u2014 where Chalice had been held for two successful years \u2014 denied the event a permit to allow state-licensed providers to do sales at the San Bernardino County Fairgrounds.<\/p>\n
Under California\u2019s new cannabis regulations, events must take place on county fairgrounds or at locations owned by district agricultural associations. Chalice\u2019s founder Doug Dracup\u00a0sued<\/a>\u00a0the City of Victorville and California\u2019s Bureau of Cannabis Control this June, in a last-ditch attempt to allow his festival to take place. In\u00a0a statement on the event\u2019s website<\/a>, the festival announced the lawsuit was continuing, but that the festival would have to be postponed for \u201capproximately four months.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2018, many California counties have balked at the idea of hosting a regulated cannabis event, and because those counties are in sole possession of legal event space, it\u2019s been a struggle for cannabis event promoters.<\/p>\n Similarly, the buyers at dispensaries up and down the state are attempting to stock their shelves with quality concentrates in time for 710, but they\u2019ve had a tough time finding compliant\u00a0products just days after California\u00a0implemented their track and trace program <\/a>on July\u00a01.<\/p>\n For example, at the\u00a0Berkeley Patients Group<\/a>\u00a0dispensary in Berkeley, California, the shelves have \u201csomewhat limited globs\u201d this week because state testing laboratories are behind on testing product, according to BPG\u2019s vice president and\u00a0Emerald Cup<\/a>\u00a0judge Etienne Fontan. \u00a0\u201cThe new emergency temporary regulations on July 1 are the culprit,\u201d Fontan told Cannabis Now. \u201cThere is a stock of product but limited to a few manufacturers who\u2019ve got actual compliant product to the shelves.\u201d<\/p>\n Fontan was confident, however, that dispensaries would soon have their inventory back to normal, given that \u201ceveryone is ramping up or awaiting testing.\u201d<\/p>\n The bottlenecks, delays and cancellations that California\u2019s cannabis industry is experiencing are growing pains that other states \u2014 namely, Washington, Colorado and Oregon \u2014 have experienced before.<\/p>\n We reached out to\u00a0Bolder Extracts<\/a>\u00a0to get their take on how adjusting to new regulations went in Colorado.<\/p>\n Bolder Extracts co-founder Spencer Uniss told Cannabis Now that the market\u2019s early months had a few hiccups, but he never recalled waiting more than a week to receive lab test results.<\/p>\n \u201cIf there weren\u2019t enough labs, the state would usually do an emergency bulletin and push back deadlines, which is what I thought California was maybe going to do,\u201d\u00a0Uniss said.<\/p>\n Adam Weiss, who co-founded Bolder Extracts with Uniss, also shared some insight on the earliest days of recreational dabs in Colorado.<\/p>\n \u201cThe consumer base was a lot larger, and what they were looking for in terms of a product was very different from what we saw on the medical side,\u201d Weiss told Cannabis Now. \u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong \u2014 people were still selling a lot of shatters, but the recreational side didn\u2019t know how to work with shatter because they didn\u2019t know how to smoke it or ingest it.\u201d<\/p>\n To account for the new tastes, Bolder began making premium sugars. These were easier for folks to throw in a joint or on top of some flower in a bowl if people didn\u2019t have a full concentrate consumption setup.<\/p>\n Weiss said that \u201canywhere from 30 percent to 50 percent\u201d of his peers in the medical concentrates marketplace didn\u2019t survive the jump to the legal cannabis market in Colorado. He said this had to do \u201cwith some locations in towns not allowing things consistently with the state.\u201d<\/p>\n TELL US<\/strong>,\u00a0what are your plans for 710?<\/p>\n The post California\u2019s Concentrates Industry Struggles Before 710<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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