The Office of Administrative Law (OAL) has approved the Department of Cannabis Control’s (DCC) regulations implementing Business and Professions Code section 26100(f)(2) pertaining to the establishment of a standard cannabinoids test method, including standardized operating procedures, that shall be utilized by all licensed testing laboratories in California. OAL filed the approved regulations with the Secretary of State on July 28, 2023. These regulations will become effective on October 1, 2023 and compliance will be required starting January 1, 2024. 

The Office of Administrative Law (OAL) has approved the Department of Cannabis Control’s (DCC) regulations implementing Business and Professions Code section 26100(f)(2) pertaining to the establishment of a standard cannabinoids test method, including standardized operating procedures, that shall be utilized by all licensed testing laboratories in California. OAL filed the approved regulations with the Secretary of State on July 28, 2023. These regulations will become effective on October 1, 2023 and compliance will be required starting January 1, 2024. 

Type: Regular rulemaking 

Status:  Approved and filed with Secretary of State July 28, 2023. Effective October 1, 2023.

Through these adopted regulations, the DCC aims to ensure all licensed laboratories are using the same standardized cannabinoid test method which will ensure consumers receive accurate and consistent information regarding the cannabinoid content of the cannabis and cannabis product they use or consume. 

View the rulemaking documents: 

Approved Regulation Text and Standardized Operating Procedures – July 28, 2023 

• Approved Regulation Text and Standardized Operating Procedures – July 28, 2023 
  • Approved Text of Regulations – Standard Cannabinoids Test Method and Standardized Operating Procedures (July 2023) 
• Final Statement of Reasons – Standard Cannabinoids Test Method and Standardized Operating Procedures (July 2023) 
• Addendum to Final Statement of Reasons – Standard Cannabinoids Test Method and Standardized Operating Procedures (July 2023)
• Additional Modifications to Proposed Text – May 8, 2023 
  • Notice of Additional Modifications to Proposed Text of Regulations – Standard Cannabinoids Test Method and Standardized Operating Procedures (May 8, 2023)
  • Errata
  • Modified Text of Regulations – Standard Cannabinoids Test Method and Standardized Operating Procedures (May 8, 2023)
• Further Modifications to Proposed Text – October 4, 2022
  • Notice of further modifications to proposed text of regulations – standard cannabinoids test method and standardized operating procedures (October 4, 2022)
  • Further modified text of regulations – standard cannabinoids test method and standardized operating procedures (October 4, 2022)

• Modifications to notice and text – August 31, 2022
  • Notice of modifications to proposed text of regulations – standard cannabinoids test method and standardized operating procedures
  • Modified text of regulations – standard cannabinoids test method and standardized operating procedures
• Correction to notice – July 14, 2022
  • Correction to cannabinoids test methods notice
• Initial notice and proposal – June 17, 2022
  • Notice of proposed rulemaking – standard cannabinoids test method and standardize operating procedures
  • Regulation text – standard cannabinoids test method and standardize operating procedures
  • Initial statement of reasons – standard cannabinoids test method
  • Validation of a UPLC method for cannabinoids concentration quantification in cannabis flower