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recent california business licensing news and updates This site focuses or refers to information and services regarding at least 20% ownership interest cannabis industries Proposition 64: The Adult Use of Cannabis Act of 2016 Carbon Dioxide (CO2) extraction manufacturing activities Retailer (nonstorefront) Distributor Transport Only Category II Residual Solvents and Processing Chemicals Testing shipping manifest medicinal and adult-use or both markets persons with a financial interest in the cannabis business Premises Information health impacts of cannabis California Department of Public Health child-resistant packaging disclosure of all criminal convictions opaque exit package annual license application Percentage of ownership MCSB sanitary workplaces The California Department of Public Health's license review process cultivation (on an area less than 10,000 square feet) Temporary License Application 600 foot radius of a school medicinal and adult-use markets Completed Temporary 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