Sonoma’s cannabis-consumption future is coming into focus.
The Sonoma City Council, at its May 30 “special” meeting to consider marijuana regulations, voted to allow for the personal cultivation of a limited number of outdoor plants – but stamped down on the idea of an in-town cannabis dispensary.
The votes on cultivation and storefront dispensaries – the former 3-2 in favor; the latter 3-2 against – weren’t binding. The council was, rather, giving direction to city staff, which will return to the city council later with a more concrete set of ordinances to consider based on Wednesday’s votes.
Since the 2016 approval of Proposition 64, which legalized adult recreational cannabis in California, Sonoma has been operating under a cannabis moratorium, which expires in November, until city officials come to terms on formal regulations regarding the newly legal intoxicant.
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