GreenState Group

GreenState Group is a California cannabis regulatory consultancy covering new license applications, renewals, local permits and ownership changes across cultivation, retail, manufacturing, distribution and microbusiness license types. Its compliance practice includes compliance audits, manufacturing SOPs, METRC reconciliation and ongoing retainers, and its enforcement practice handles notice-to-comply responses, license suspension defense, violations and citations, and failed-inspection recovery. The firm also runs a credentialing and education program and offers 280E financial and tax advisory.

GreenState is headquartered in Rancho Cordova, California, near the Department of Cannabis Control, and was founded in 2018 by Elisabeth Austin, who spent eleven years in the rulemaking body that became DCC, and David Austin, a technology entrepreneur. The firm lists more than 200 applications handled, work in 41 of California's 58 counties, and clients ranging from $8 million to $120 million in annual revenue. Enforcement defense accounts for roughly one-third of its engagements.