Cannabis licensure: tribal government licensure.

Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) , an initiative measure approved by the voters, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. Existing law, the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) , among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities and establishes the Department of Cannabis Control to administer its provisions. MAUCRSA gives the department the sole authority to issue, renew, or deny state licenses for commercial cannabis activity, and imposes various requirements on state licensees. Existing law generally requires that all commercial cannabis activity be conducted between licensees and, among other things, requires that each applicant or licensee apply for, and, if approved, obtain, a separate license for each location where the applicant or licensee engages in commercial cannabis activity. This bill would authorize a state licensee to engage in commercial cannabis activity with a tribal licensee, as described, if the department certifies that the relevant tribal government imposes requirements on the tribal licensee with regard to cannabis and cannabis products to be sold or otherwise transferred or distributed within the state that meet or exceed the requirements applicable to state licensees, as specified. AUMA authorizes the Legislature to amend its provisions with a 23 vote of both houses to further its purposes and intent, except as specified. This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of AUMA.