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Ordinance amending Chapter 20.410 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code to permit and regulate indoor commercial cultivation of cannabis.
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WHEREAS, on October 9, 2015, Governor Brown approved the Medical Marijuana and Regulation and Safety Act (MMRSA), effective January 1, 2016, which established a comprehensive state licensing and regulatory framework for the cultivation, manufacturing, testing, distribution, transportation, dispensing, and delivery of medical cannabis and which recognized the authority of local jurisdictions to prohibit or impose additional restrictions on any such medical cannabis activities; and
WHEREAS, on June 27, 2016, Governor Brown approved Senate Bill 837, which amended the MMRSA and renamed it the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MCRSA); and
WHEREAS, on November 8, 2016, the voters of the State of California ("State") enacted Proposition 64, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA); and
WHEREAS, on April 4, 2017, Governor Brown released a budget trailer bill that aimed to reconcile the existing medical marijuana statutory framework under MCRSA and the recreational statutory framework adopted under the AUMA. After some revision, the State Senate and Assembly passed a modified version of the original proposal in the form of AB 110/SB 94, known as the Medical and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), and on June 27, 2017 and the Governor signed it into law; and
WHEREAS, MAUCRSA uses the term "cannabis" instead of "marijuana"; and
WHEREAS, subject to certain exceptions, MAUCRSA generally establishes a comprehensive system to legalize, control, and regulate the cultivation, processing, manufacture, distribution, testing, and sale of cannabis, including cannabis products, and to tax the commercial growth and retail sale of cannabis; and
WHEREAS, MAUCRSA permits a city to enact and enforce "reasonable regulations" to regulate the possession, planting, cultiva...
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