California Illicit Cannabis Market
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15% of California Cannabis Businesses Default on Taxes as 2025 Hike Comes Knocking
With nearly a quarter-billion dollars of 2023 cannabis taxes in default, the state’s market could corrode further with an excise tax increase to 19%.