City Marijuana Task Force Named Ahead Of Probable State Legalization

This week, the Board of Supervisors' Rules Committee, which consists of Supervisors Scott Wiener, Malia Cohen, and John Avalos, voted to appoint 11 out of 48 applicants to a task force that will help guide the city's policies and plans surrounding the inevitable statewide legalization of recreational marijuana. As the Examiner reports, "Cancer survivors, those living with HIV, business owners and medical marijuana dispensary operators were among the 48 applicants" for the seats, of which there will be a total of 14 — the committee left three open to be filled at a later date.

 

The task force will be tasked with answering a variety of questions in order to alter the current citywide policies for zoning around medical marijuana. Among those, as SPARC founder and task force member Erich Pearson says, will be assessing what the immediate demand for pot will be. "We need to determine how...

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