Legal Question in Business Law in California

We're a indoor growing equipment company. We sell hydroponic, indoor lights, grow tents, and other products used to grow plants indoors. An overwhelming majority of our customers use our products to grow cannabis. We currently do marketing over YouTube by making tutorial & product videos. We want to cater to our customers by making videos explicitly demonstrating how to grow weed. We've been avoiding growing cannabis by growing tomatoes and peppers that are similar to cannabis, but we think we'd have more success if we actually grew cannabis in the videos.

We want to know if there would be legal consequences to growing cannabis on our company youtube channel?

Also, we have been contacting channels that grow weed to be our affiliate. We would be sending them products that they use to grow weed on their channel. Any sales generated from the traffic associated with these affiliates will be shared with them. Are there any legal consequences to this?


Asked on 11/13/14, 2:00 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Nicholas Spirtos Law Offices of Nicholas B. Spirtos

Growing marijuana is still illegal in California, except for authorized medical marijuana users. For those who do have a medical recommendation, there are limits on the amount they can legally grow. As long as you are authorized and stay within the limits, your proposal is most likely legal.

Paying a commission or a referral fee for sales is generally allowed, however there are exceptions.

For both of your questions, you really need to sit down with an attorney that knows and understands marijuana laws in California.

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Answered on 11/14/14, 8:05 am


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