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Supervisor plans task force to prepare SF for marijuana legalization statewide

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 04/28/2015 - 05:37

If California voters approve recreational marijuana for adults at the November 2016 ballot, Scott Wiener wants San Francisco to be ready.

The supervisor is expected to introduce legislation Tuesday to create a task force charged with figuring out how to best allow for recreational marijuana use in San Francisco. The task force will comprise officials from city government and the school district, along with neighborhood activists and medical cannabis industry players.

“Whatever one’s views on cannabis ... it looks like full legalization is going to the ballot,” Wiener told The San Francisco Examiner on Monday. “We have to be prepared.”

California in 1996 was the first state to legalize medical marijuana, and San Francisco was the first city to regulate dispensaries selling the product.

Since then, four states — Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska — and Washington, D.C., have outright legalized marijuana for adult use.

Officials across the state are...

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