“This bill wouldn't look at all how it looks if they had sought out the council of the California Growers Association and other organizations like this that represent farmers and long time cultivators and people who really know this industry.

 

A Lot of those voices that are really important to a bill like this have been left out. And so what we probably have here is a very politically minded bill and perspective on what cannabis legalization should look like.

 

And its largely going to benefit the state and its going to benefit the corporations that have lobbied the state and are interested in coming in and taking over this billion dollar market and I really feel like we're going to see the status quo just tilt in their favor and out of the hands of the people who have really built this industry, which is the small farmers.” - Ross Keen, Emerald Family Farms