Monthly Archives: August 2016

The capital city is readying to become a cannabis production center under a plan advanced Tuesday by a City Council committee. The council’s law and legislation committee moved forward with a conceptual plan to allow indoor cultivation of marijuana in commercial, industrial and agricultural zones in Sacramento – with a possibility of granting conditional use permits for limited facilities operating just outside of residential areas. The city’s push toward marijuana industrialization is expected to culminate 
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The Santa Cruz City Council will consider updating on Tuesday it’s cannabis business tax, a move that will require a vote of the people in the November 8 election to move forward. The 7 percent cannabis tax, which received a commanding 82 percent support when it first went to voters in November 2014, is a tax whose approximately $300,000 in annual funds are used for general city purposes. The proposed changes are designed to better 
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If approved by voters in November, it would be the first municipal pot tax in San Luis Obispo County and would open the door to marijuana dispensaries and cultivation within city limits which are both currently prohibited. The marijuana tax ballot measure has a 5% tax on medical marijuana sales in the city based on gross receipts. Recreational marijuana sales and cultivation, if approved by California voters in November, would be taxed at 10% in 
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Two tax measures could go before San Jacinto voters, but they may not affect the pocketbooks of most residents. City Council members are expected to decide Tuesday if the electorate will be asked in November to approve a marijuana tax and increase the hotel tax. Mayor Andrew Kotyuk said both proposals show the city is looking at the effects of marijuana’s possible legalization in California and future growth in the city. “We want to be 
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