420-Friendly? San Francisco Struggles to Finalize Rules for Legal Weed – News

San Francisco city officials are close to reaching a temporary agreement that would allow the city’s residents to purchase legal weed on January 1st, but some locals are still fighting to keep retail pot shops out of their neighborhoods. California residents voted to legalize adult use of cannabis starting at the top of next year, but many of the state’s municipalities have been struggling to get their regulations in order by this deadline.

In September, San Francisco officials announced that they wouldn’t make the deadline, deciding instead to delay the licensing of retail establishments until new regulations are in place that would ensure equal opportunity for low-income entrepreneurs. The decision left the city’s traditionally pot-friendly inhabitants wondering where and when they could enjoy the newly-legal herb, but the city may have finally reached a compromise.

“We may have a pathway to an agreement,” city Supervisor Aaron Peskin told the SF Chronicle. The proposal would allow the city’s 46 existing medical cannabis dispensaries to sell cannabis to any adult until the formal retail licensing system is in place. “Then we can hash out the details for how to go…

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