agenda-report Request of Councilmembers Negrete, de la Torre, and Brock that the City Manager schedule a study session as soon as practicable regarding whether to allow for the sale of nonmedicinal cannabis in the City of Santa Monica, as the City currently allows for the sale of medicinal cannabis. The study session shall include suggested Municipal Code changes, as well as options for City Council direction on potential locations, permitting process, social equity provisions to make legal cannabis business ownership and employment opportunities more accessible to low-income individuals and communities most impacted by the criminalization of cannabis, and any other regulatory restrictions as may be appropriate, including the maximum number of medicinal and nonmedicinal cannabis establishments in the City that are recommended. Finally, the study session shall also include municipal code changes that are necessary to allow for Cannabis-themed special events in specified locations in the City.
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- agenda-report Request of Councilmembers Negrete, de la Torre, and Brock that the City Manager schedule a study session as soon as practicable regarding whether to allow for the sale of nonmedicinal cannabis in the City of Santa Monica, as the City currently allows for the sale of medicinal cannabis. The study session shall include suggested Municipal Code changes, as well as options for City Council direction on potential locations, permitting process, social equity provisions to make legal cannabis business ownership and employment opportunities more accessible to low-income individuals and communities most impacted by the criminalization of cannabis, and any other regulatory restrictions as may be appropriate, including the maximum number of medicinal and nonmedicinal cannabis establishments in the City that are recommended. Finally, the study session shall also include municipal code changes that are necessary to allow for Cannabis-themed special events in specified locations in the City.
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- May 10, 2022
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- Santa Monica City Council
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May 10, 2022
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CITY CLERK’S OFFICE - MEMORANDUM
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Denise Anderson Warren, City Clerk, Records & Elections Services Department
Date: May 10, 2022
13.B Request of Councilmembers Negrete, de la Torre, and Brock that the City Manager schedule a study session as soon as practicable regarding whether to allow for the sale of nonmedicinal cannabis in the City of Santa Monica, as the City currently allows for the sale of medicinal cannabis. The study session shall include suggested Municipal Code changes, as well as options for City Council direction on potential locations, permitting process, social equity provisions to make legal cannabis business ownership and employment opportunities more accessible to low-income individuals and communities most impacted by the criminalization of cannabis, and any other regulatory restrictions as may be appropriate, including the maximum number of medicinal and nonmedicinal cannabis establishments in the City that are recommended. Finally, the study session shall also include municipal code changes that are necessary to allow for Cannabis-themed special events in specified locations in the City.