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Patients and operators urge supervisors to adopt nonbinding compassionate-services resolution and ease local permit rules for medical cannabis
Summary
During an extended public-comment period at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting on May 15, patients, advocates and dispensary operators urged the board to adopt a nonbinding compassionate-services resolution, treat state medical-cannabis ID cards as voluntary and remove police sign-off from the local permitting process.
Multiple patients, dispensary operators and advocates used the public-comment period at the May 15 San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting to press the board for changes to the citys medical cannabis (MCD) permitting policy and to urge adoption of a nonbinding compassionate-services resolution.
Speakers representing collectives, patient-advocacy groups and individual patients described several recurring concerns: that the state-issued medical-cannabis identification card is voluntary under state law and should not be mandatory for local access; that many patients fear registering because of possible federal or employment consequences; that police sign-off in the city permit process has been a barrier for at least one…
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