The California cannabis industry has paid over $1 billion in taxes in the past two years only to be uninvited to Newsom’s economic development roundtable discussions on how to restart the economy. Absolutely shameful.

“I had a situation in a Southern California city that began to show strong signals that a bag of cash was soon to be requested,’ McGowan wrote in an email to Marijuana Business Daily as an illustration of how common such practices have become.” John...