California

California Green Check Verified

Programs

Dispensaries

  • California Bureau of Cannabis Control License Count:
    • Retail Storefronts: a retailer may conduct sales in a licensed premises open to the public and may conduct sales by delivery.
    • Non-retail storefronts: a non-retail storefront must have a licensed premises, but is not open to the public. It conducts sales exclusively by delivery.
    • Microbusiness: businesses that do at least 3 of the following activities at one location: cultivation (up to 10,000 square feet), manufacturing, distribution or distribution transport-only, retail or non-retail storefront.
  • Retailers can only sell and deliver cannabis goods between the hours of 6:00am and 10:00pm Pacific Time.

Geography

  • Arizona – Medical and Adult Use
  • Nevada – Medical and Adult Use
  • Oregon – Medical and Adult Use

Regulatory Agencies

Sales Data

California Sales and Use Tax Receipts


  • Banks: 130
  • Credit Unions: 288

Banking Guidance

Business and Professions Code – BPC, Division 10 Cannabis [26000 – 26260], Chapter 24. Information Sharing with Financial Institutions [26260 – 26260]:

(a) An entity that receives deposits, extends credit, conducts fund transfers, transports cash or financial instruments, or provides other financial services does not commit a crime under any California law, including Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 186.9) of Title 7 of Part 1 of the Penal Code, solely by virtue of the fact that the person receiving the benefit of any of those services engages in commercial cannabis activity as a licensee pursuant to this division.

(b) (1) A person licensed to engage in commercial cannabis activity pursuant to this division may request in writing that the department, a local licensing authority, a state or local agency, or a joint powers authority share the person’s application, license, and other regulatory and financial information with a financial institution of the person’s designation. The person shall include in that written request a waiver authorizing the transfer of that information and waiving any confidentiality or privilege that applies to that information.

(2) Notwithstanding any other law that might proscribe the disclosure of application, licensee, and other regulatory and financial information, upon receipt of a written request and waiver pursuant to paragraph (1), the department, a local licensing authority, a state or local agency, or a joint powers authority may share application, licensee, and other regulatory and financial information with the financial institution designated by the licensee in that request for the purpose of facilitating the provision of financial services for that licensee.

(3) A person who provides a waiver may withdraw that waiver at any time. Upon receipt of the withdrawal, the department, local licensing authority, state or local agency, or joint powers authority shall cease to share application, licensee, or other regulatory or financial information with the financial institution.


  • A licensed retailer shall not sell more than the following amounts to a single adult-use cannabis customer in a single day:
    • 28.5 grams of non-concentrated cannabis.
    • 8 grams of cannabis concentrate, including cannabis concentrate contained in cannabis products.
    • Persons 18 years or older are allowed to plant, cultivate, harvest, dry and process no more than six (6) living cannabis plants.
  • Adults over 21 years of age may grow up to six plants, indoors, at a single residence. Plants must be stored completely indoors and screened from public view.

  • A licensed retailer shall not sell more than the following amounts to a single medicinal cannabis patient, or to a patient’s primary caregiver purchasing medicinal cannabis on behalf of the patient, in a single day:
    • 8 ounces of medicinal cannabis in the form of dried mature flowers.
  • A qualified patient or primary caregiver may also maintain no more than six (6) mature or twelve (12) immature cannabis plants per qualified patient.
  • If a qualified patient or primary caregiver has a physician’s recommendation that this quantity does not meet the qualified patient’s medical needs, the qualified patient or primary caregiver may possess an amount of cannabis consistent with the patient’s needs.
  • Patients 18 years of age with a valid medical marijuana prescription may grow up to six plants, indoors, at a single residence. Plants must be stored completely indoors and screened from public view.
  • Primary caregivers must be at least 18 years old and may include; a parent, the owner, operator or employee of a licensed facility, such as a clinic, hospice, home health agency.
  • Senate Bill 305 was vetoed in by Gov. Newsom in January 2020. If approved, the bill (“the Compassionate Access to Medical Cannabis Act” or “Ryan’s Law”) would have allowed terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis within a healthcare facility. Gov. Newsom vetoed the bill citing that health facilities must comply with all federal laws (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) to receive federal reimbursement for the services they provide.

State Cannabis Regulatory Authority

Address:

Sacramento office

Department of Cannabis Control (DCC)

2920 Kilgore Road

Rancho Cordova, CA 95670

North Coast regional office

Department of Cannabis Control (DCC)

930 Sixth Street

Eureka, CA 95501

Contact :

Phone:      1‑844‑61‑CA‑DCC (1‑844‑612‑2322).

Questions can also be emailed to:

info@cannabis.ca.gov.

Mailing Address:

Department of Cannabis Control (DCC)

PO Box 419106

Rancho Cordova, CA 95741-9106

State Banking Regulatory Authority

Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

https://dfpi.ca.gov/

https://dfpi.ca.gov/division-of-corporations-and-financial-institutions/

Email: DFPI@dfpi.ca.gov

https://dfpi.ca.gov/contact-the-office-of-financial-technology-and-innovation/

DFPI Main Office – Sacramento

2101 Arena Boulevard

Sacramento, CA 95834

Phone:

(916) 445-7205

(866) 275-2677

San Francisco

One Sansome Street, Suite 600

San Francisco, CA 94104-4428″

Phone:

(415) 972-8565

(866) 275-2677

Los Angeles

300 S. Spring Street, Suite 15513

Los Angeles, CA 90013-1259

Phone:

(213) 897-2085

(866) 275-2677

Los Angeles

320 West 4th Street, Suite 750

Los Angeles, CA 90013-2344

Phone:

(213) 576-7500

(866) 275-2677

San Diego

1455 Frazee Road, Suite 315

San Diego, CA 92108

Phone:

(619) 610-2093

(866) 275-2677

Licensees and Industries Regulated by the Division:

licensing@dfpi.ca.gov

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https://dfpi.ca.gov/important-notices/