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From: Wharf Rat2/26/2016 11:04:25 PM
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Alcohol distributors as marijuana middlemen

Beer, wine and liquor distributors — long-time big-money backers of cannabis prohibition — stand to gain from new regulations governing California’s $1.3 billion medical cannabis industry.

One of the landmark laws Gov. Jerry Brown signed Oct. 9 calls for the creation of a new kind of business to regulate the flow of all cannabis products in California, essentially middlemen like beer, wine and liquor distributors but with authority over quality assurance and product testing.

Licensed distributors would receive cannabis products — flowers, concentrates and edibles, unpackaged for further processing or packaged for retail sales — and submit random samples for lab testing and certification before performing final inspections and delivering products to manufacturers and retailers.

Distributors can hold lab-testing licenses and perform in-house analysis. Distributors may charge fees that cover the testing plus any applicable taxes.

While the creation of a licensed distribution scheme is the first of its kind in any state that allows medical or recreational cannabis, it is not unexpected as the alcohol industry has begun to infiltrate and embrace the cannabis industry after realizing pot is not booze’s bogeyman.

Alcohol industry groups had feared cannabis legalization would cut their profits. Turns out, alcohol sales are riding high. In the 18 months since recreational pot was legalized in Colorado, alcohol excise tax receipts rose 2.1 percent. “We’ve just seen phenomenal growth,” a Denver liquor store owner told The Guardian recently....

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