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City holds broad oversight hearing on state medical-cannabis law, seeks local permitting path
Summary
Supervisors heard presentations from DPH, Planning and DBI on the state Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act'and the need to create local permitting and zoning for cultivation, manufacturing, testing and delivery; industry speakers urged clear local rules, equity provisions and fast action ahead of the state's 2018 licensing deadlines.
Supervisor Scott Wiener convened a committee oversight hearing on state medical-cannabis legislation and its implications for San Francisco's local rules. Cindy Comerford of the Department of Public Health summarized the new state framework, noting it creates a dual state-local licensing system with roughly 17 license types (dispensaries, cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, transport and testing) and that San Francisco currently issues a single retail dispensary permit. "The new law allows for some limited type of vertical integration...the local authority in this new law is rather broad," Comerford said, stressing the city must decide which license types it will allow locally.
Aaron Starr of the Planning…
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