Regulations are state laws with specific rules for how businesses and others must operate. Regulations are created and changed through a process called rulemaking. Changes must be approved by the Office of Administrative Law (OAL).
View DCC’s proposed and completed rulemaking below.
Pending actions
DCC-2025-03-R: Pesticide Updates
Type: Regular rulemaking
Status: Public notice provided June 13, 2025. Public comments currently being accepted through July 28, 2025.
Summary: DCC is proposing a rulemaking action to updates the action levels for testing of pesticide residues in cannabis products.
DCC-2025-02-R: Animal Cannabis Product Standards
Type: Regular rulemaking
Status: Public notice provided May 9, 2025. Public comments were accepted through June 23, 2025.
Summary: DCC is proposing a rulemaking action to establish standards for cannabis products intended for use on, or consumption by, animals.
DCC-2025-01-R: Cultivation Updates; Sanitation Standards
Type: Regular rulemaking
Status: Public notice of modified text provided July 18, 2025. Public comments are being accepted through August 4, 2025.
Summary: DCC is proposing a rulemaking action to revise existing regulations to remove redundant and duplicative provisions, streamline operational and administrative burdens for licensees and the Department, and establish minimum sanitation standards.
Rulemaking from other departments
Hemp products: Emergency regulations (California Department of Public Health)
Type: Emergency rulemaking
Status: Effective September 23, 2024
Department: California Department of Public Health (CDPH)
CDPH has implemented emergency regulations that explicitly prohibit the manufacture, warehousing, distribution, offer, advertising, marketing, or sale of industrial hemp final form food products intended for human consumption (including food, beverages, and dietary supplements) that contain any detectable levels of total THC or other intoxicating cannabinoids.
Cannabis and hemp are currently regulated in separate supply chains and DCC licensees are not authorized to engage in hemp activities on their licensed cannabis premises. Therefore, these regulations do not directly impact licensed cannabis operators engaged in licensed commercial cannabis activity.
Recently approved regulatory actions
Cultivation License Changes Pursuant to BPC Section 26061.5
Type: Regular rulemaking
Status: Approved and filed with Secretary of State on March 17, 2025. Effective March 17, 2025.
Summary: The Office of Administrative Law (OAL) has approved and filed the Department of Cannabis Control’s (DCC) regulatory action to permanently adopt its emergency regulations implementing Senate Bill 833, codified in Business and Professions Code (BPC) section 26061.5, which requires the DCC to allow cultivation licensees to make certain changes such as changing the type of size of a cultivation license, placing a cultivation license in inactive status, or making a one-time change to a cultivation license’s date of renewal. These regulations take effect immediately upon filing with the Secretary of State.
Prior rulemaking actions
Email regulations@cannabis.ca.gov for copies of previous rulemaking files.
How regulations are made
Regulations are made through a process called rulemaking. It gives the public the opportunity to take part in the creation of regulations proposed by California state agencies. Learn more about the rulemaking process.
