The Kern County Board of Supervisors will have a busy morning on Tuesday.
The supervisors will decide whether to allow a sales tax measure to appear on the November ballot, as well as two conflicting medical marijuana dispensary measures.
The supervisors will decide whether to allow two medical marijuana measures onto the November ballot.
Both measures qualified for the ballot through voter initiatives, with each initiative gathering more than 13,000 signatures to qualify.
The first initiative, put forward by Jeff Jarvis and Heather Epps, and drafted by attorney Phil Ganong, would overturn the countywide ban on medical marijuana dispensaries and replace the ban with state regulations.
The second initiative, proposed by attorney Ben Eilenberg, would also overturn the county’s ban, but would allow for no more than 35 medical marijuana dispensary permits, and the dispensaries would be placed in two zones along Interstate 5.
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