July 2024
CITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF CANNABIS REGULATION BUSINESS, LICENSING, COMPLIANCE AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE | ||
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COACHING DCR offers over 1,500 hours of free business, professional, and workforce development coaching with subject-matter experts from a wide range of expertise. First fill out and submit the Coaching Indemnification Form. | 
LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS)
DCR has added all the webinars from our Spring Webinar Series. | 
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MANAGEMENT, TRAINING, AND RECRUITMENT 57 minutes |
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| BUSINESS PLANNING AND OPERATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 4 parts, 120 minutes |
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Coming to you from the neighborhood, DCR launches its first ever local advertising campaign to support legal cannabis business. There are few important reasons why: small legal cannabis businesses lift communities by hiring locally, create tax dollars that benefit the city and protect public health and safety. A prevalent illegal market challenges the success of small and local cannabis businesses that are largely owned and operated by social equity entrepreneurs. While DCR and law enforcement have roles to combat illegal operations, consumers do, too.
Annual Licensing
To date, 82 retailers have received approval for Annual Licenses from the City of Los Angeles Cannabis Regulation Commission (CRC).
Community meetings are a requirement prior to scheduling a hearing in front of the Cannabis Regulation Commission, who is ultimately responsible for the approval or denial of an Annual License.
DCR continues to prioritize the review of all annual applications based on the following criteria: (1) upcoming State license expiration dates; (2) non-retail Social Equity businesses who do not have a state provisional license; (3) Social Equity retail businesses; and, (4) all other businesses.
To find out more about the Annual Licensing process, please visit our website. DCR will be releasing a guide with next steps this month for all recent recipients of an Annual License, stay tuned.
Is Your DBA On File With DCR?
Do you have a DBA (Doing Business As)? Is it registered in Accela?
If not, you will also need to submit a Modification Request with DCR (via Accela) to add your DBA.
To complete this process, please complete and submit form LIC-4001-MOD and include the FBN filing stamped by the LA County Registrar Recorder/Clerk. Modification requests are free of charge.
Please file this ASAP as it needs to be completed before you receive a Notice of Completed Application pertaining to the annual licensing process. If you have any questions about the DBA process, reach out to your assigned DCR licensing staff member.
DCC Equity Fee Waiver Funding Notice
Attention!
Funding for equity fee waivers offered to qualified businesses through the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) has been exhausted. However, equity businesses may still qualify for six-month fee deferrals.
Equity licensees are still encouraged to apply for a fee waiver through the Department of Cannabis Control and the Department will continue to review submissions even after funds are exhausted, as fee waiver qualifications are a requirement for other programs offered through other agencies.
Social Equity Deadline Extension
Mayor Karen Bass signed into law a deadline extension for 100 Social Equity Applicants selected in the Phase 3 Retail Round 2 Retail Cannabis License Lottery, allowing them three additional years, until December 31, 2026, to enter the licensing application process. The original deadline expired on December 8, 2023. The new ordinance also allows DCR to continue accepting Temporary Approval applications from retail social equity applicants through January 1, 2031.
The move by the City Council came after the passage of the State’s SB 51, which allows the State of California’s Department of Cannabis Control to extend its provisional license program by allowing cannabis equity retail applicants or licensees to obtain or renew state provisional licenses after the prior deadline of June 30, 2023.
Compliance Inspection 101 Webinar
The time has come for Compliance Inspections! Join DCR for an online webinar detailing DCR’s Compliance inspection process.
This webinar will review:
- How your inspection will be scheduled
- An overview of what to expect on your inspection day
- An introduction to and overview of the new Self-Assessment Checklist and the Rules and Regulations pertaining to operational requirements
- What happens after you pass
- What happens if you need to correct deficiencies
- Definitions of violation types
DCR has created this Self-Assessment Checklist to prepare you before a compliance inspection. DCR strongly recommends licensees use this self-assessment checklist to identify and rectify any deficiencies prior to an inspection. This checklist is provided as a courtesy and any self assessment is optional. You are not required to complete the checklist and it does not need to be returned to DCR; it is merely for your information and preparation.
To help guide applicants through the process, you are invited to join the Compliance Inspection 101 webinar from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM on Wednesday, August 7, 2024. To RSVP click here and to join the webinar, click here.
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IN THE NEWS
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- California Cannabis Product Recalls Are On The Rise
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- Florida Will License More Black Cannabis Farmers As Adult-Use Campaign Tops $60M
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Thank you for reading our monthly CannaDispatch newsletter, designed to provide timely and useful information about DCR-SEP news, services, programming and resources for the Los Angeles Social Equity community, SEIAs, licensees and operators.
If you have suggestions for future newsletter topics, please email us at dcr.sep@lacity.org. The DCR public counter is open Tuesday and Wednesday from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM at 221 N. Figueroa St, Suite 1245, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Call (213) 978-0738 to speak with a DCR representative.
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