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= Global Alliance for Cannabis Commerce =

The Global Alliance for Cannabis Commerce (GACC) represents every aspect of the United States cannabis trade, ranging from growers to retailers, ancillary and secondary service-provider businesses that support the industry, and partner trade associations. Companies join the organization as a Board, Policy Council, Supporter, or Standard member depending on desired level of engagement. Only marijuana plant-touching members are allowed to join the GACC Board of Directors with voting rights.

GACC has three objectives, the first of which is to secure enough congressional and administration support to enact comprehensive federal legislative and regulatory changes, to provide long-term relief to and certainty for the continued growth of the cannabis industry.

Second, GACC develops and deploys a Strategic Partners Network of key industry stakeholders to support member business growth from a practical and operational standpoint.

Third, to provide consumers with confidence in the safety of their products, GACC has undertaken the process of providing a nominal-cost “GACC Certified” certification process to provide uniform testing and laboratory protocol standards within all legal states.

Federal Advocacy
To accomplish its legislative and administrative law goals, GACC has hired former counsel to Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) Randal John Meyer as Executive Director to steer the organization’s government affairs, one of the only former Republican Senate Hill staffers with experience obtaining results in the Senate for cannabis and a co-coordinator for the Cannabis Freedom Alliance Steering Committee on behalf of GACC. He oversees the day-to-day activities of our top D.C. based lobbyists and policy experts at K&L Gates.

The Executive Director keeps GACC members apprised of key federal policy developments so that they can factor that information into their long-term business planning.

GACC seeks to comprehensively remove roadblocks to industry growth and provide a complete regulatory framework for a high-growth federal ecosystem. Specifically, the comprehensive approach for GACC is pursuing:

• Tax reform including retroactive nullification of 280E

• Equal Access to Banking, Capital Markets & U.S. Stock Exchanges

• Interstate trade legality and regulation

• International trade legality and regulation with a focus on U.S. Exports

• Two-track legalization for medical-products and adult-use products with separate regulatory frameworks

• Labeling & quality control

• Track & trace for legal products

GACC and States Reform Act
On November 15 2021, Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced the States Reform Act [H.R. 5977 ] with the purpose of keeping Americans and their children safe while providing the framework for each state's unique cannabis laws. The States Reform Act was crafted with help of GACC and the Cannabis Freedom Alliance to build a framework that includes competitive tax rates for American cannabis companies to enter the global marketplace.