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San Francisco Office of Cannabis is an agency of the City and County of San Francisco responsible for creating cannabis policy and carrying out its enforcement under California Proposition 64, starting January 1, 2018. It was approved by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on July 25, 2017. [1]
The movement to legalize medical cannabis in the U.S. sprang out of San Francisco in the early 1990s, with efforts soon spreading statewide and eventually across the nation. Proposition P was approved by 79% of San Francisco voters in November 1991, calling on state lawmakers to pass legislation allowing the medical use of cannabis. [76]
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Drug policy of California refers to the policy on various classes and kinds of drugs in the U.S. state of California. Cannabis possession has been legalized with the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, passed in November 2016, with recreational sales starting January of the next year.
On January 31, 2018, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón announced his department would begin to retroactively apply Proposition 64 to misdemeanor and felony marijuana convictions dating back to 1975, recalling and re-sentencing up to 4,940 felony marijuana convictions and dismissing and sealing 3,038 misdemeanors. [54]
Lexington is under the gun to get zoning regulations for medical marijuana operators in place before the new law takes effect Jan. 1. The 2023 Kentucky law gave local governments the authority to ...
The city's zoning ordinance sets the minimum at 1,500 feet, a restriction that makes opening a cannabis store in Quincy virtually impossible without the board's approval.
2005: Denver residents voted to legalize cannabis. [107] 2006: San Francisco made enforcement of cannabis laws the lowest priority. The change was approved through a Board of Supervisors vote. [108] 2009: Breckenridge, Colorado residents voted to legalize cannabis. [109] 2012: Chicago decriminalized cannabis through a city council vote. [110]