{"id":9313,"date":"2020-12-29T03:53:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T03:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/12\/28\/marijuana-4-things-to-watch-for-in-california-in-2021\/135139\/"},"modified":"2020-12-29T03:53:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T03:53:06","slug":"marijuana-4-things-to-watch-for-in-california-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/marijuana-4-things-to-watch-for-in-california-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana: 4 things to watch for in California in 2021"},"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\/marijuana-4-things-to-watch-for-in-california-in-2021\/\" 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\/RPE-L-SHANGO-0327-01-1-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/marijuana-4-things-to-watch-for-in-california-in-2021.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/marijuana-4-things-to-watch-for-in-california-in-2021-2.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\/28\/marijuana-4-things-to-watch-for-in-california-in-2021\/135139\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"135139\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Making predictions about California\u2019s marijuana industry was a challenge even before a global pandemic changed everything.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just that the legal cannabis market, which launched three years ago in California, is so new. It\u2019s also the singularity of an industry in which licensed, legal operators still compete against a much larger illicit market, even as the industry\u2019s core consumer product \u2014 which is medicine for some people \u2014 remains illegal at the federal level.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the trends that were expected to shake up California\u2019s marijuana industry at the start of 2020 were overshadowed or fully sidelined by the coronavirus. Still, California\u2019s marijuana businesses fared better than some other sectors thanks to their \u201cessential\u201d designation, which allowed retailers and others in the supply chain to stay open and generate revenue during lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2020\/12\/28\/marijuana-4-things-to-watch-for-in-california-in-2021\/\">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>Making predictions about California\u2019s marijuana industry was a challenge even before a global pandemic changed everything. It\u2019s not just that the legal cannabis market, which launched three years ago in California, is so new. It\u2019s also the singularity of an industry in which licensed, legal operators still compete against a much larger illicit market, even [&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\/9313"}],"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=9313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}