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The Annual Water Board Monitoring Reports open 01/01/2026 and are due by 03/01/2026 for the 2025 cultivation year. The Annual Monitoring report can only be completed on the application portal, which you can access by clicking here https://public2.waterboards.ca.gov/SWCGO . More information can be found in the Completing and Submitting the Annual Monitoring PDF by clicking here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFCq7t0DHkjl76fKv98O18LqoqVKupKDTqcUSPbMyJU/edit?usp=sharing .

Executive Director Diana Gamzon met with our State Assembly Member Heather Hadwick. Heather is a champion for our rural district, and as a small business owner of her family farm, she understands the constant obstacles of owning your own business.  She serves as a Member of the California State Assembly Committee on Agriculture and Business and Professions, and Vice Chair of the Committee on Emergency Management, among countless others.  Representing the Nevada County cannabi

The Legacy Genetics Project is inviting community members from CA’s legacy-producing communities to apply for the Community Advisory Board (CAB). Applications are open through December 31st, 2025. Apply for the CAB here . The C.A.B. will comprise 13 members of the legacy producing community, including representation from rural, urban, and BIPOC communities, with exceptional knowledge, experience, and expertise relevant to legacy genetics. The CAB will meet virtually for 12 mo

November 18th, 2025 President Trump has signed a spending bill that both ends the longest government shutdown in U.S. history and enacts a sweeping federal crackdown on hemp-derived THC products. The legislation, approved by the Senate in a 60–40 vote and by the House in a 222–209 vote, includes language redefining legal hemp in a way that will ban more than 95% of current hemp extract products, effectively dismantling the multi-billion-dollar industry that emerged after the

November 13th, 2025 | Written by NORML Washington, DC: Federal lawmakers have negotiated and finalized legislation to fund the US Department of Agriculture that includes amended provisions recriminalizing the sale of certain hemp-derived intoxicating products. The appropriations bill is one of three separate funding bills that were included in a package to reopen the government until January 30, 2026. The provisions – which were advocated by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), among