Southern California Coalition is the world’s largest, most inclusive cannabis industry trade organization representing every sector of the emerging cannabis industry in Southern California. Southern California Coalition’s mission is to ensure comprehensive cannabis policies are implemented in an inclusive and responsible way in the world’s largest cannabis market, Southern California.
Who We Are
One Unified Industry Voice Representing the Cannabis Industry’s Interests
The Southern California Coalition is the Southland’s largest cannabis trade association representing every sector of the cannabis industry. The organization’s mission is to ensure that local, state and federal legislation is inclusive, fair, and implemented in a responsible manner. The Coalition was the largest contributor to the City of Los Angeles Measure M campaign. The organization was instrumental in persuading the City to abandon its policy of limited immunity and begin licensing cannabis businesses. The Coalition moved aggressively to protect the rights of the city’s oldest non-retail cannabis businesses and succeeded in moving this category into the next phase of licensing. As demonstrated above, the Southern California Coalition has played a major role in shaping cannabis policy in Los Angeles since its inception in 2016.
Questions & Answers
Southern California Coalition’s mission is to ensure responsible cannabis policies are implemented in a comprehensive and inclusive way at the local, state and federal level. As SoCal’s largest, most inclusive unified voice, Southern California Coalition represents the most pre-ICO and Proposition D-compliant dispensaries, along with other industry leaders in cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, delivery, transportation, lab testing, and social equity advocacy in the world’s biggest market—Southern California. Southern California Coalition is continuing to work with elected officials and decision makers to ensure Proposition M is implemented in full in Los Angeles, and that this inclusive model is implemented and enacted in other cities, counties, states, and countries.
Southern California Coalition represents stakeholders across all licensing categories including, dispensaries, cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, delivery, transportation, lab testing, and social equity advocacy.
Join the Southern California Coalition, and fight for what is right. We have seen firsthand the power that our numbers can have on forming sound, responsible and inclusive policies. Working together, peer-to-peer, and with industry leaders, entrepreneurs, elected officials and stakeholders, we are a focused, coordinated, united and powerful force that is aggressively driving meaningful and positive industry changes forward at local and state levels, which promote economic activity, job growth, new opportunities, innovation, stronger communities, and business activity in Southern California.
Meet Our Leadership Team
Our Founders
Virgil Grant
Co-Founder Emeritus
Adam Spiker
Co-Founder and Executive Director
Erik Hultstrom
Co-Founder
Donnie Anderson
Co-Founder Emeritus
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Southern California Coalition members are on the front lines of a powerful and organized movement to promote and successfully implement, protect, and maintain sensible cannabis policies, along with safeguards to fairly license, regulate, tax, and enforce the legal sale of state-legal cannabis in a way that protects and benefits Southern California’s communities, minorities, citizens, law enforcement, municipal services, and workers.
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