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San Francisco rules committee advances sweeping cannabis ordinance; equity, portability and on-site consumption amendments approved
Summary
The Rules Committee advanced an ordinance to regulate commercial cannabis activity, adopting amendments on equity eligibility, temporary/portable permits, a two-step registration for existing operators and DPH-guided on-site consumption standards; the item was continued for final drafting.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee met on Nov. 7, 2017, to consider a citywide ordinance to regulate commercial cannabis activities and adopted a package of policy and technical amendments while continuing the item for final drafting.
Supervisor Malia Cohen, who sponsored equity provisions, told the committee she had circulated written amendments designed to "ensure full and equal access to opportunities" for communities harmed by the war on drugs and to align conviction‑history criteria with the city’s Fair Chance Ordinance. Cohen said she would "change the conviction history criteria" to reference subsection 5(b) and track police code section 49.04 so applicants with qualifying arrests or convictions between 1971 and 02/2009 could be eligible for the equity program.
The committee discussed a portability amendment intended to prevent landlords from capturing the value of permitted businesses. Chair and sponsors described a mobile permit that would allow a permittee to retain…
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