California regulators awarded 20 social cannabis business licenses on Thursday, including retail stores, extract and edible producers, distributors and “micro businesses” that grow, distribute and sell their own bud and cannabis products, from seed to customer.

The first licensed company was Pure CA, the parent brand of Moxie extracts, who will now be able to distribute cannabis products across the Golden State.

On the retail side, Santa Cruz-based KindPeoples, Lake Shasta’s 530 Cannabis, and San Diego’s Torrey Holistics will be able to kick off the new year selling legal cannabis to locals and tourists alike, as long as they’re 21 years or older.

These businesses will have to make sure they have enough licensed partners, including testing labs, before they make their first sales.

“Dude, I’m generally pretty reserved, but I’m freaking out right now,” Khalil Moutawakkil, founder and director of KindPeoples told Green State. “It’s amazing. I had chills up my spine.”

“I couldn’t be more excited,” Moxie CEO Jordan Lams said. “California has been without regulations for a very long time. So there is going to be a transition period.”

Moreover, California regulators passed out the state’s first revised medical licenses, signaling yet another shift for the industry that has operated under laissez faire state oversight since medical cannabis was first legalized in the state back in 1996.

“The taboo part is slowly going to be removed and this is going to be like any other business,” said Tony Hall, the owner and operator of Torrey Holistics, the first retailer given a social license.

With only two weeks until California’s legal cannabis market officially goes online, the state’s officials have indicated that more permits are on their way.

“We plan to issue many more before Jan. 1,” said Lori Ajax, California’s Chief of Cannabis Regulation.

California officials had not awarded any licenses for standalone commercial cultivation of social cannabis.