{"id":9310,"date":"2020-12-17T15:52:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T15:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/12\/17\/california-cannabis-businesses-weathered-2020-better-than-many-industries-but-challenges-persist\/135133\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T15:52:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T15:52:30","slug":"california-cannabis-businesses-weathered-2020-better-than-many-industries-but-challenges-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/california-cannabis-businesses-weathered-2020-better-than-many-industries-but-challenges-persist\/","title":{"rendered":"California cannabis businesses weathered 2020 better than many industries, but challenges persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/california-cannabis-businesses-weathered-2020-better-than-many-industries-but-challenges-persist\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OCR-L-CANNABIS-0418-01-SRA-1-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/california-cannabis-businesses-weathered-2020-better-than-many-industries-but-challenges-persist.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/california-cannabis-businesses-weathered-2020-better-than-many-industries-but-challenges-persist-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/12\/17\/california-cannabis-businesses-weathered-2020-better-than-many-industries-but-challenges-persist\/135133\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"135133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No one would say Year Three was the charm for California\u2019s legal cannabis businesses, as many in the industry spent 2020 struggling with a global pandemic, high tax rates and illegal competitors that the state just can\u2019t stamp out.<\/p>\n<p>But marijuana businesses are faring better this year than some other sectors thanks to their \u201cessential\u201d designation, which allows retailers and others in the supply chain\u00a0to stay open during lockdowns. Some also believe the \u201cessential\u201d label is providing an image boost for an industry that\u2019s long been stigmatized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it shows a real cultural shift in how cannabis is being viewed,\u201d said Josh Drayton, spokesman for the Sacramento-based California Cannabis Industry Association trade group.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2020\/12\/17\/california-cannabis-businesses-weathered-2020-better-than-many-industries-but-challenges-persist\/\">Read the rest of this story on ocregister.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one would say Year Three was the charm for California\u2019s legal cannabis businesses, as many in the industry spent 2020 struggling with a global pandemic, high tax rates and illegal competitors that the state just can\u2019t stamp out. But marijuana businesses are faring better this year than some other sectors thanks to their \u201cessential\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8226,9,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[8227],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}