Benicia Planning Commission seeks to allow medical marijuana delivery

Benicia >> Benicia’s planning commission is recommending the city to allow the delivery of medical marijuana within city limits.

All commissioners, except for George Oakes who was absent, voiced their support on the issue during Thursday night planning commission meeting.

“I wouldn’t want to see access to a legal product be prohibited by the fact that people can’t deliver,” Commissioner Steve Young said. “I don’t think that’s compassionate.”

Currently, Benicia doesn’t allow dispensaries, deliveries and the public use of marijuana. Cultivation is also limited to indoors only if there is no “visual or olfactory evidence of cultivation detectable from the public right of way or from adjoining properties.”

Indoor cultivation also requires a qualified patient or caretaker to live on the property. Up to six mature plants or 12 immature plants are allowed to be grown per each qualified patient who lives on the property, according to the State Attorney...

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