How Much Is Your Time Worth?

LA Cannabis License Renewals Might Be Costing You More Than You Think

 

Let’s cut to the chase — how much is your hourly rate worth? $100? $250? More?

Now ask yourself this:
Would you pay yourself that rate to figure out how to navigate the ever-changing, borderline-incomprehensible LA cannabis license renewal process?

Didn’t think so.

License Renewals in LA: It’s Not Just a Form Anymore

If you’ve renewed before, you already know the drill:

  • DCR changes the forms every year

  • City departments don’t coordinate

  • Deadlines aren’t always announced clearly

  • And oh yeah — no one replies to your emails

 

For 2025–2026, we’re seeing new changes across multiple LA agencies. That means updated documentation, fresh signatures, portal logins you forgot existed, and formatting requirements that make you feel like you’re taking a government SAT.

Every hour you spend trying to decode this process is an hour not spent building your business, managing your team, or closing a deal.

 

What That Time Actually Costs You

Let’s say your time is worth $150/hour. You spend:

  • 3 hours figuring out the new DCR checklist

  • 2 hours finding the right LADBS contact

  • 4 hours troubleshooting a “technical error” on a portal that never actually works

  • 2 hours rewriting your business tax paperwork because it was “missing a middle initial”

  • 6 hours going back and forth with DCR with zero response

That’s $2,550 in time and energy — and you haven’t even submitted your application yet.

 

CH Compliance Already Has the Map

We’ve been through it, backwards and forwards.
We know which forms have changed, where DCR will kick things back, what the analysts want to see, and how to move quickly through city departments without playing email tag for a month.

When we do your renewal, you:
✅ Avoid city portal headaches
✅ Skip the guesswork
✅ Get it done on the first try
✅ Actually focus on your business again

And the best part? You spend way less than you would doing it yourself.

 

Here’s What Our Clients Are Doing Instead of Stressing About Renewals

  • Booking wholesale contracts

  • Streamlining their distro logistics

  • Hiring new staff for expansion

  • Dialing in their COGS and improving profit margins

  • Sleeping better

You didn’t get into this business to refresh a broken portal and wait on hold with a city clerk for 49 minutes.

 

Let Us Handle the Paperwork. You Handle the Profit.

Renewals are open. DCR’s timeline is tight. We’re helping cannabis operators across distribution, cultivation, retail, and manufacturing get squared away right now — before the fall rush.

 

👉 Book your free consult
Or DM us on IG  @chcompliance— seriously, we’re fast.

 

Nicole Miller
Founder, CH Compliance
California’s Cannabis Compliance Expert (and your personal DCR decoder)

 

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