California Cannabis Coalition

Recipient US Commerce and Trade Research Institute 2015 California Excellence Award. The 1st & Only Cannabis Trade Organization to Defeat a Local Municipality in the California Supreme Court - California Cannabis Coalition v. the City of Upland 2017. As a chapter of the American Cannabis Coalition, the CCC has successfully championed the institution of regulatory framework such as citizens initiatives and referendums to overturn bans in over 30 local municipalities and organized over a dozen state legislative victories including killing AB1530, the “delivery ban” in 2019. Before the start of the year, the Coalition drafted the recommendations made to Governor Newsom for the General Budget Plan of 2020 to eliminate the Mark up, Wholesale and Cannabis Business Tax in his Proposal for the General Budget for Cannabis Tax Reform. In 2020, the CCC worked to get tax relief in the marketplace and to be deemed essential during the pandemic.

In the words of the co-author of Prop 215 and the founder of CCC, Craig Beresh, “the people united will never be divided.”