{"id":56150,"date":"2022-10-28T20:25:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T20:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/californias-weed-nuns-are-struggling-to-sell-cannabis\/"},"modified":"2022-10-28T20:25:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T20:25:18","slug":"californias-weed-nuns-are-struggling-to-sell-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/californias-weed-nuns-are-struggling-to-sell-cannabis\/","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s Weed Nuns Are Struggling to Sell Cannabis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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California\u2019s cannabis regulations are too restrictive, even for the Sisters of the Valley, the self-declared anarchist nuns who get by selling CBD products. In a recent BBC <\/em>profile<\/u><\/a>, a spokesperson for the group said that they are currently making half as much as they did before the pandemic \u2014 and they think California\u2019s regulatory system is to blame.<\/p>\n

The sisters are operating outside of the law. Their farm is in Merced County, where all commercial cannabis activity is against<\/u><\/a> local regulation, as it has been since the Sisters\u2019 non-profit cannabis collective got its start way back in 2015. <\/p>\n

“I chose an industry that is messed up,” the order\u2019s leader Sister Kate, who also goes by Christine Meeusen, told the BBC<\/em>. “It’s going to probably be messed up and I’m probably going to have to do a lot of dancing and sidestepping.”<\/p>\n

The order says that before the COVID-19 pandemic, they were pulling down a $1.2 million gross per year. For unidentified reasons, though, the dark years of masking and sanitizing seriously cut into their profits.<\/p>\n