Chula Vista’s strenuous licensing approval process is being challenged by a rejected company that alleges the city failed to follow its own merit-based application evaluation rules. WeedWeek has more.
San Diego Union-Tribune
- Since opening its permit process in January of last year, Chula Vista has received 136 applications—84 of which are for dispensaries. No businesses have been granted licenses.
- “The suit demonstrates the city’s process is fatally flawed, and will not serve the citizens of Chula Vista in their desire to permit the ‘best and most qualified candidates,’ and thereby eliminate the dangerous, illegal operators that have plagued the city for years,” said lawyer David Damien.
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- In Mendocino County, tensions between traditional market growers and firefighters began after officials closed forest roads, which were used to bring water onto grows. Tensions spiked when personnel found a water truck pump had been stolen.
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