California Cannabis Regulators Struggle with Job Demands, Staffing

The agency overseeing California’s legal marijuana market has been overmatched by the job and is struggling to hire sufficient staff and set an overall strategy for the nation’s largest cannabis economy, an audit found.

HIGHLIGHTS

• About two-thirds of the 219 staff positions authorized for the Bureau of Cannabis Control remain unfilled.
• The current status and location of personnel is not sustainable to provide effective and comprehensive oversight of cannabis activities throughout California.
• Legal shops must compete with thriving underground sales, and companies say hefty tax rates make it hard to lure customers.

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