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Santa Cruz County Easing Cannabis Cultivation Rules

The slate of regulation updates is aimed at registering at least 75 cannabis growers in unincorporated Santa Cruz County within the next year.

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SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz County is rolling out significant changes to its cannabis cultivation rules as tax revenue fails to meet expectations and growers complain they are being driven out of the area by cumbersome local licensing requirements.

The slate of regulation updates is aimed at paving the way to register at least 75 cannabis growers in unincorporated Santa Cruz County within the next year. Changes include reducing permitting requirements and opening up cultivation licenses beyond the pool of hundreds of local growers who had registered with the county in 2016.

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Lauded by the county’s cannabis industry, the changes were approved Tuesday by the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors in a 3-2 vote. Supervisors Ryan Coonerty, John Leopold and Bruce McPherson voted in support, supervisors Zach Friend and Greg Caput dissented.

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