Ten months after San Francisco permitted retail sales of
cannabis, officials are developing plans for a new committee to assess how the
regulations are working.
The Cannabis Oversight Committee, proposed by
Supervisor Sandra Fewer, is intended to examine the work being done by the
Office of Cannabis, gauge the effectiveness of existing regulations and make
sure those hardest hit by the War of Drugs are benefiting through retail permits
and living wage jobs.
One of the more glaring issues is that the city has yet to approve permits for applicants impacted by the War on Drugs under the cannabis equity program established as part of the city’s recreational cannabis regulations, as the San Francisco Examiner previously reported.
