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Business owners urge council to reject proposed cannabis fee increases; council accepts public comment
Summary
Dozens of speakers — including social equity licensees and small business owners — urged the council to reject fee increases from the Department of Cannabis Regulation and to pursue independent study and targeted relief; the council took public comment and later approved a package of routine agenda items that included item 13.
Dozens of business owners and social equity licensees told the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday that proposed fee increases from the Department of Cannabis Regulation (DCR) would threaten already fragile licensed cannabis businesses and favor illicit operators.
Speakers during the public comment period described a range of operational problems they said made the fee increase untimely. Tiffany Wright, who identified herself as a 17-year cannabis industry veteran, urged the council to “reject this increase” and called on the city to provide relief for social equity applicants, saying DCR charges more than the state and that social equity licensees have been “indebted and…
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