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FILE - In this June 8, 2019, file photo, two women smoke cannabis vape pens at a party in Los Angeles. California officials announced Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, that marijuana vape cartridges seized in illegal shops in Los Angeles contained potentially dangerous additives, including a thickening agent blamed for a national outbreak of deadly lung illnesses tied to vaping. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

California tests find illegal vapes tainted with additives

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2017 file photo, Lori Ajax, head of California's Bureau of Cannabis Control, addresses an industry group meeting in Long Beach, Calif. California’s struggling marijuana market can expect to see a period of continued strain and turbulence for at least a couple of years, as it deals with sustained competition from illegal sales, industry layoffs and fallout from a national vaping crisis, Ajax, the state's top cannabis regulator, said Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

No short-term fix for challenges in California pot market

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2017 file photo, Lori Ajax, chief of California's Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation, poses in the bureau's office in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California’s top marijuana regulator talks legalization

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Associated Press

Marijuana plants are displayed at the Green Goat Family Farms stand at &quot;The State of Cannabis,&quot; a California industry group meeting in Long Beach, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. California's emerging marijuana industry is being rattled by an array of unknowns, as the state races to issue its first licenses to grow and sell legal recreational pot on Jan. 1. Proposition 64, which legalized recreational pot use for adults, takes effect next year. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

California regulator admits to anxiety as legal pot nears

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Associated Press