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At this address since 2008

The address sandiegomarijuana.com has been registered without a break since August 12, 2008. That is the .com registry's own record, and anyone can read it. A website named San Diego Marijuana appeared here within weeks: the Internet Archive's earliest copy is dated October 25, 2008.

The site you are reading is a new edition. It launched on July 31, 2026, and everything on it was written for it. None of the earlier pages were carried over. What the address held in between is public record too, so here it is, gaps included.

Every copy the archive holds is listed here. A year missing from the table has no archived copy. What the law was in each of those years is on the timeline.

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Every legal statement on this site traces to a public source. We keep a registry of those sources and of every claim that depends on them, with the date each was checked. Claims we have not been able to verify to that standard are marked as unverified rather than presented as settled — and are kept out of our structured data entirely.

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Verified claims

• Adult-use purchases require customers to be 21 or older. Medicinal patients 18 or older with a valid physician’s recommendation may buy from a medicinal retailer..
• California retailers may sell up to 28.5 grams of flower and 8 grams of concentrate, including concentrate in manufactured products, to each adult-use customer in a day; separate possession limits still apply.
• California caps an adult-use edible cannabis product, drinks included, at 10 milligrams of THC per serving and 100 milligrams per package, and an adult-use concentrate or topical, vape cartridges included, at 1,000 milligrams of THC per package.
• A licensed retailer must confirm each customer’s age and identity from a valid government-issued identification with a photo, such as a driver’s license, a military identification card, or a United States or foreign passport.
• Adults 18 and older with a valid physician’s recommendation may buy medicinal cannabis, and the usual medicinal daily limit is 8 ounces of dried flower unless a valid physician’s recommendation specifies a different amount; adult-use and medicinal limits cannot be combined.
• In California a driver or passenger may not smoke or consume cannabis in a moving vehicle, DMV instructs that an open cannabis container belongs in the trunk or a place where passengers do not sit, and purchases leave a store in an opaque exit package.
• A licensed retailer may deliver cannabis to a physical address anywhere in California, but not to publicly owned land, to land or a building leased by a public agency, or to a school, day care or youth center, and the driver must confirm the customer’s age and identity.
• Since January 1, 2024, California employers with five or more employees may not penalize a person for off-duty cannabis use away from work, or for a drug test that finds only non-psychoactive cannabis metabolites, and may not ask applicants about past cannabis use.
• Possessing marijuana without a valid prescription remains a federal offense, and the April 2026 federal rule that moved state-licensed medical marijuana to Schedule III left all other marijuana in Schedule I.
• Cannabis is prohibited on federal land in California, including national parks such as Cabrillo National Monument, national forests such as the Cleveland National Forest, and national wildlife refuges.
• U.S. Border Patrol operates permanent traffic checkpoints on northbound Interstate 5 near San Clemente, on Interstate 15 near Temecula and on westbound Interstate 8 near Pine Valley.
• California charges a cannabis excise tax of 15 percent of the gross receipts of each retail sale; the retailer collects it from the purchaser and states it separately on the receipt.
• Sales tax applies to retail sales of cannabis and is charged on the price including the cannabis excise tax.
• A medicinal cannabis sale is exempt from sales and use tax when the buyer presents a state medical marijuana identification card and valid government-issued identification; the cannabis excise tax still applies.
• When a cannabis retailer adds its local cannabis business tax to a customer’s receipt, the cannabis excise tax and sales tax apply to that amount too.
• Sales and use tax rates effective October 1, 2026 are 7.75 percent in the City of San Diego, Encinitas, Santee and the unincorporated county; 8.25 percent in Vista; 8.5 percent in La Mesa; and 8.75 percent in Chula Vista, Imperial Beach, Lemon Grove and National City.
• Retail cannabis business taxes are 10 percent of adult-use gross receipts in the City of San Diego, 5 percent in Lemon Grove, 4 percent of adult-use gross receipts in La Mesa and 2 percent in the unincorporated county; qualified medicinal retail sales are exempt from the city business tax in San Diego and La Mesa; Lemon Grove and the county prohibit charging theirs to customers.
• Public cannabis consumption is prohibited in California; private property use requires the property owner’s permission and remains subject to smoking restrictions.
• Consuming cannabis in a vehicle is prohibited, and cannabis must be transported in a sealed container or in the trunk.
• The City of San Diego limits cannabis outlets to four per Council District, 36 citywide.
• UCMJ Article 112a prohibits cannabis use and possession by United States service members regardless of state law.
• Transporting cannabis across the United States border is a federal offense regardless of California law.
• Sessions by the Bay in National City is the first licensed cannabis consumption lounge in San Diego County, opened in April 2025.
• National City approved cannabis consumption lounges in May 2022, the first municipality in San Diego County to do so.
• Driving under the influence of cannabis is a DUI in California, and an open container of cannabis in a vehicle is prohibited.
• Carrying cannabis across state lines is a federal offense, and airport security checkpoints are federal jurisdiction regardless of state law.
• Mexican customs has warned that bringing cannabis into Mexico can result in a fine of 80,000 pesos and possible incarceration, with no exception for cannabis bought legally in California.
• California allows adults 21 and over to cultivate up to six cannabis plants per residence for personal use, subject to local rules.
• The address sandiegomarijuana.com has been registered without a break since August 12, 2008.
• A community website named San Diego Marijuana was published at sandiegomarijuana.com from 2008 to 2010, and the site as it is now is a new edition launched on July 31, 2026.
• California voters approved Proposition 215 in 1996, making it legal under state law to use marijuana for medical purposes.
• On August 25, 2008, the California Attorney General released guidelines on medical marijuana, the first attempt by a state agency to define which organizations could lawfully dispense it.
• On November 2, 2010, California voters rejected Proposition 19, which would have allowed people 21 and older to possess marijuana for personal use, by 53.5 percent to 46.5 percent.
• On March 25, 2014, the City of San Diego adopted Ordinance O-20356, which allowed medical marijuana consumer cooperatives by conditional use permit and limited them to four per Council District, 36 citywide.
• California voters approved Proposition 64 on November 8, 2016, and from November 9, 2016, state law has allowed adults 21 and older to possess and grow limited amounts of cannabis for personal use.
• The City of San Diego passed Ordinance O-20793 on February 22, 2017, extending its permit rules for medical cooperatives to the retail sale of all marijuana and keeping the limit of four outlets per Council District.
• State regulation and adult-use sales of cannabis began in California on January 1, 2018.
• The Department of Cannabis Control was established by Assembly Bill 141, approved on July 12, 2021, and took over the duties of three separate state licensing programs.

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Updated 2026-10-24.