A marijuana company recently filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) and the state’s Office of Administrative Law (OAL) alleging “massive overcollection of cannabis excise tax on items that legally are not subject to excise taxation.” In the third quarter of 2023, California cannabis taxes yielded $269.3 million, out of which excise tax generated $156.9 million, and the remaining $112.4 million came from sales tax. Since 2018, the state’s cannabis taxes brought almost $3 billion in state revenue. Now, HNHPC Inc., which operates one of Catalyst Ca…
