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US: Recreational marijuana sales won't start in January in SF after all Rachel Swan SF Gate Tuesday 26 Sep 2017 The city won’t issue permits to sell recreational marijuana until it passes new laws to regulate the industry and creates an equity program to help low-income entrepreneurs, people of color, and former drug offenders break into the market. According to Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, who introduced an ordinance with proposed regulations at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, city officials still have no idea what that program will look like or how it will operate. “Out of a 70-page ordinance, less than a page talks about how to make (the industry) equitable,” said Sheehy, who co-sponsored the cannabis ordinance with Mayor Ed Lee. Sheehy said the laws are “far from perfect, and further from final,” and will require a lot more work. In July, the board asked the city controller and the Office of Cannabis to put together a report on equity in the cannabis industry and submit it by Nov. 1. San Francisco will require all dispensaries to keep selling medicinal marijuana, even if they obtain licenses to sell the recreational product as well. New recreational sales outlets will also be required to sell medical marijuana. Medicinal marijuana requires a prescription and includes some products, such as tinctures and creams, that do not produce a euphoric effect. Sheehy admitted to concern about an excess of new planning and zoning regulations in his and Lee’s ordinances. “Does too much regulation drive people into the black market?” he asked In addition to contemplating social equity issues, the city will have to devise a new licensing system for its medical cannabis dispensaries to bring them in line with current state laws that require all parts of the supply chain to be regulated. Under the new system, nurseries and manufacturers that previously operated underground will have to be licensed by the city. The city will allow its existing medical cannabis dispensaries to apply for temporary 120-day permits on Jan. 1 so that they can stay open while officials design the new structure. Also on Tuesday, Supervisors Jane Kim and Norman Yee asked the controller’s office to produce a report on the costs and benefits of providing free or subsidized child care to low-income residents in San Francisco. Kim has asked the city attorney to draft a ballot measure for universal affordable child care to coincide with a similar measure in Alameda County that will also raise the pay of child care workers to $15 an hour. http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Recreational-marijuana-sales-won-t-start-in-12230679.php
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