Los Angeles Poised to Ditch Proposed Cannabis Tax for Homeless Services
Less than two weeks after Los Angeles County supervisors agreed to move forward with a 10 percent tax on cannabis businesses in order to fund homeless services, the proposal’s author wants to shelve the plan.
Late last week Supervisor Shiela Kuehl moved to pull the measure from November ballots, explaining that there had been “a good deal of ambivalence” about the tax from social service providers. Drumming up enough support for the proposal — which would require a two-thirds supermajority among voters — would be a long shot, Keuhl said.
“We certainly didn’t want to raise millions of dollars for a campaign and have it fail by two or three points,” she said, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Homelessness in Los Angeles has risen dramatically in recent years, making an already-bad problem worse. County officials have drawn up an ambitious fix, but it comes with a hefty price tag. Officials...
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