Is there any good faith mistake of law in the context of marijuana possession legislation?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Lai, C075594 (Cal. App. 2017):
Here, by contrast, appellants did not introduce any evidence of a good faith mistake of law. They did not present evidence they were part of a collective, that the collective was not for profit, and that the amount of marijuana grown was reasonable for the needs of the collective's members. (People v. Urziceanu, supra, 132 Cal.App.4th at pp. 763, 765.)
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