Will California’s Cannabis Real Estate Markets Copy Colorado?
By Carol Ann Flint
Colorado adopted legal marijuana use for debilitating medical conditions in 2000. Over the next decade, the law expanded, eventually allowing legal dispensaries in 2009. Colorado’s Amendment...
Should You Just Say No (to Cannabis)?
Risks Associated with Leasing to Cannabis Industry Tenants
By Alison E. Geddes, Trainor Fairbook
Most of us remember the 1980s television commercial where an egg is dropped into a hot frying...
Bay Area Real Estate Is Flying High
By Sean Kali-rai, Jackson and Main, LLC
Since the passage of California Proposition 64 in November 2016, communities in the greater San Francisco Bay Area are having discussions—some internal and...
Medical Marijuana In Rental Housing
By Jill Broadhurst, East Bay Rental Housing Association
Rental property owners in California constantly have new laws to consider, both annually by the state and intermittently by local councils. Many...
High Design: Pot Dispensaries Lure Customers With Stylish Trappings
By Jen Chan, White Tiger Condo Conversion
When medical marijuana was first legalized in California in 1996, patients were often forced to get their fix in dark, dreary dispensaries policed...
Representing a Marijuana Business: A Broker’s Personal Viewpoint
By Anna Mcquillan Rose, Transwestern Commercial Services
Why can’t I represent a marijuana business?
Short answer: If this business becomes the target of a federal investigation, you and your firm may...
Construction Techniques For Cannabis Businesses
By Dan Sanders, Proforma Construction
The commercial real estate market in the East Bay has been opened up to a new industry: cannabis cultivation, harvesting and distribution. This addition has...
The (Green) Land Rush Is On! But Is There Enough Water?
By Courtney A. Davis, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis
Although cultivation and use of cannabis for medicinal purposes has been legal in California for two decades, the recent...
California Cities And Counties Grapple With Marijuana Legalization
By Thomas Tunny, Reuben, Junius & Rose, LLP
On November 9, 2016, by a 56-44 percent margin, California voters approved Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA). With...
Point Of View: Illegal Cannabis In Rentals
By Anne Bruff, Anne Bruff & Associates
Before the legalization of medical marijuana, there was for many years an underground, not-so-hidden marijuana industry thriving in many parts of California. Growers...
