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Patients, advocates and operators urge strong compassion program, consumption lounges and equity protections
Summary
During public comment dozens of patients, industry operators and advocates urged the committee to preserve compassionate access for low-income medical users, expand consumption lounges, protect medical-patient access (including loose product) and ensure equity permit timing and ownership rules do not shut out disadvantaged applicants.
Dozens of speakers filled the Rules Committee hearing to press priorities beyond the ordinance text: compassion programs for low-income medical users, sufficient consumption lounges, shared manufacturing space and an equitable licensing process.
Multiple medical patients and advocates told the committee that compassion ' meaning free or nominal-cost access for qualified low-income patients ' must be preserved in San Francisco's rules. Harold Smith, who said he has been a patient since 1994, said a financial subsidy is necessary for some patients to maintain their regimens. Access advocates urged the committee to require meaningful…
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