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In California, Businesses Battle Teamsters for Pot Distribution

Updated On: Mar 27, 2017

Mar. 27, 2017 | ORGANIZING | When Californians went to the polls this (sic) November to approve the legalization of marijuana for personal use, little did they realize it would morph into a battle between unions and business. The state is no slated to begin distributing licenses to marijuana business on Jan. 1, 2018. Therefore, the Golden States’s legislature is attempting to iron our discrepancies between the already existing medical marijuana rules and the approved ballot measure. The crux of the disagreement between the Teamsters union and business groups is deciding who is in charge of pot distribution… legalinsurrection.com