- June 19, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Encinitas will begin amending and repealing city ordinances in order to allow cannabis retail sales, commercial cultivation, distribution and product manufacturing, the City Council unanimously decided Wednesday night, June 16.
A marijuana leaf on a plant at a cannabis farm in Gardena, Calif., in 2019.
(Associated Press)
However, council members said, many questions remain about exactly how they’ll regulate all the cannabis business activity that they’re now forced to permit due to the passage of Measure H, a citizens’ initiative the city’s voters narrowly approved in November.
Among those yet-unanswered questions is what they’ll do about taxing cannabis business activity, what steps they’ll take to keep children from being attracted to using cannabis and how they’ll handle complaints about noxious odors from growing operations.
One question that isn’t in doubt is whether the city will allow commercial cannabis…
