City Of Sacramento Awarded $5.7 Million To Help Local Cannabis Businesses

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Sacramento has received $5.7 cardinal successful authorities funds to assistance section cannabis firms and applicants successful obtaining yearly authorities licenses.

The metropolis sought funds from the state’s recently formed Department of Cannabis Control successful November. The DCC’s Local Jurisdiction Assistance Grant Program, projected by Gov. Gavin Newsom and approved by the State Legislature, gives assistance to section jurisdictions to assistance successful the modulation of a ample fig of provisional cannabis licenses to yearly licenses.

“The City of Sacramento is precise grateful to person this backing from the state” said Davina Smith, who leads the City’s Office of Cannabis Management. “It volition spell a agelong mode successful helping to guarantee that section cannabis businesses tin person their yearly authorities licenses and stay successful compliance with the ineligible market.”

The cannabis licensing strategy successful California is efficaciously a dual licence scheme. Cannabis businesses indispensable person some a section and a authorities licence to run legally successful the state.

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The authorities established a provisional licensing strategy years agone to assistance enterprises successful complying with the legal, regulated market. Businesses are authorized to run nether this impermanent licence portion immoderate aspects of their yearly licensing application, specified arsenic California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requirements, are being processed. More than 70% of authorities licenses issued implicit clip were provisional alternatively than yearly.