California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed two bills requiring marijuana retailers to provide customers with lab results on request, strengthening testing oversight and changing how state law treats cannabinol isolate.
The governor announced the signatures Sunday, September 27, approving Assembly Bill 1965 by Assemblymember LaShae Sharp-Collins (D-San Diego) and Assembly Bill 2250 by Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters).
Under AB 1965, retailers and other businesses authorized to sell marijuana at retail must provide a customer with the certificate of analysis associated with a product held or offered for sale upon request.
The legislation also requires those businesses to allow the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) to obtain or access products for off-the-shelf laboratory testing, giving regulators access to marijuana already in retail inventory.
Certificates of analysis report whether products meet testing requirements, including standards for cannabinoid content and contaminants.
The measure also revises rules governing retesting and requires licensed laboratories to comply with department requests to evaluate their testing practices. Laboratories may be subjected to performance testing to assess consistency across facilities.
AB 2250 makes a separate change involving cannabinol (CBN), adding qualifying CBN isolate to an exclusion from California’s definition of cannabis concentrate beginning January 1, 2028.
Previously enacted legislation established that exclusion for cannabidiol (CBD) isolate. AB 2250 extends it to CBN isolate under the state’s applicable definition. The relevant isolate standard requires purity greater than 99% and no tetrahydrocannabinols or synthetic cannabinoids.
The legislation also revises cannabinoid enforcement provisions, including authority to seize marijuana products held or sold at unlicensed premises. It broadens an existing restriction on marijuana sales at tobacco-selling locations from retail sales to any sale.
Additionally, AB 2250 specifies that the state’s marijuana tracking system must capture activity across cultivation, harvest, processing, manufacturing, distribution, inventory, sale and delivery.
