Even before 2088, local control of cannabis laws has been California’s biggest implementation struggle. The ball’s in the hands of the hinterlands.
Though lacking the political horsepower of Sacramento, the monetary and cultural clout of San Francisco and Oakland or even the natural beauty and weed gravitas of the Emerald Triangle, the swath from Solano County on up through Chico and Butte County are impacting the fate of legal weed.
Luckily, Vallejo has been on Solano’s leading edge, while relatively conservative Suisun and Fairfield are deep into building their commercial cannabis frameworks. Thirty days after its city council voted to cancel prohibition, Chico has begun constructing its application process. Let’s hear it for the sticks.
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- Solano County has 13 commercial operations (none within an urban core). At the same time, Supervisor Jim Spering is on record as supporting a total ban on hemp cultivation and processing.
- Two years ago, Chico Councilmember Sean Morgan said of proposed taxation of cannabis sales, “I’ll listen with an open mind because that’s what we do, but the answer is not only no, but it’s hell no.” This week? “This was going to happen at some point anyway, so I think the restrictions that they put on things is about as good as they could come up with.”
- Applications for Chico operations will be listed on the city’s website by month’s end.
Quick Hits
- On Monday famed Beverly Hills parent murderer Erik Menendez was moved to an isolation unit in his San Diego prison after guards intercepted weed mailed his way.
New York Daily News - In California’s THC biz, one must mind county lines and city limits just to play. But if you’re pushing CBD? Your products have the potential to “sell across state lines, so becoming the ‘Oreo’ or ‘Tylenol’ of CBD.”
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