Monterey County District Attorney Jeannine M. Pacioni said that her Cannabis Enforcement Unit has resolved a case against Faith & Family Farms, LLC, a licensed cannabis cultivator located at in unincorporated Monterey County, California.
This case resolves allegations that the company used unlicensed transporters to distribute their cannabis products, and that they failed to include all of their product in the state’s cannabis track-and-trace system.
Under the terms of the stipulated judgment, Faith & Family was ordered to pay $120,000 in civil penalties and is subject to injunctive relief prohibiting future violations of state and local cannabis laws.
On December 20, 2023, Monterey County investigators and inspectors conducted a routine inspection at 22785 Fuji Lane, a property licensed to Monterey Botanicals, and observed employees of Faith & Family loading cannabis clones onto a tractor trailer owned and operated by RP Trucking, an unlicensed transporter.
When questioned by investigators, a manifest and receipt were created that did not correspond to the plants loaded onto the truck. The manifest was fraudulently provided to investigators. Further investigation revealed that the cannabis clones being loaded were not tracked in the Metrc system, as required by law. Investigators then reviewed Faith & Family’s Metrc manifest history, which revealed repeated instances in which Faith & Family used unlicensed transporters to transport cannabis, in violation of law.
