that would be fine except this is a lot of authority to the director. i'm just going to say that the director here today is nicole elliot, the director here in five years could be somebody completely different that doesn't believe in medical marijuana. i'm just -- i'm just saying that we are now as the supervisors on the verge of creating ordinances that will regulate a huge business. we have no idea where this is going to head but we do know the past relationship with marijuana and our past relationship with marijuana has been medical and it has proven to be successful as medical. and so i just want to make sure that we have the integrity of the medicinal marijuana is still in place and protected for those thousands of patients. >> i think you make a good

point. supervisor yee and then supervisor sheehy. >> i was just going to say one word, i think what i heard deputy city attorney, i think if you want to put in the language supervisor fewer, shall the members support it -- >> okay. >> so is that an an amendment? >> we can make it for tomorrow but giving -- requiring the director to provide -- >> shall -- sorry, hold on. i have cut supervisor sheehy off several times. go ahead. >> thank you, i appreciate that. i just think when we start getting away in the weeds no pun

intended, we may create unintended consequences. the track and trace rules that the state is requiring may end up necessitating pre-packaged product and could stop the whole train for patients putting into laws and rules we haven't researched with conformity to state law. i ask us to be careful, that's why i'm asking that the director, and i think the amendment to make shall be part of it, but we're coming into a different reality. the track and trace rules are very strong. and one of the reasons -- i understand what it's like to try to figure out what works best. that's why it was important to have on site consumption so you can sample, can you see the impact on you from different products, but i do think we have to be careful -- i'm not completely sure how the track and trace requirements are going to be implemented. it's not like today where

somebody opens the draw and starts taking stuff out and weighing it and putting it into pill bottles, as much as i love that mode of doing it, i don't know how that's really going to work in terms of state law. state law at the end of the day will be ultimately what is determinative. >> so, i'm not trying to cut the debate or conversation off but do you have additional or final comments? >> nobody knows what the state law is going to be. so having said that, city attorney gibbner, before tomorrow's meeting could i see a copy of the proposed language, please. >> sure. >> so yeah we can -- director elliot. >> i want to suggest one clarifying amendment the city attorney made me aware of. page 58, line 12 under store

front cannibis retailers, while i have been saying that as far as retail we want to retain medical and adult use the word authorities is not required. i would recommend the city attorney draft amendment to strike authorities and put in requires. >> do we have to draft that or just strike it today? >> if the city does it after public comment we'll send it to the meeting tomorrow. >> the only last thing, i think it's good we'll have it drafted and we can kind of sleep on it and think about it a little bit more. the only thing i would say, i know from practice in terms of restaurants and limited restaurants and businesses in general, when we try to be overregulate it, if the market

shifts in one way or the other, they will do the bear minimum to meet the requirements. if it becomes rules from track and trade everything has to be packaged and we say it has to be open, i can imagine there's a tiny corner where they have a little thing open to meet the requirements of rules or because san francisco has a robust tradition of interacting with medicine as you both have pointed out and the market here locally will dictate the demand is there and people want to have open product to smell, interact with and so on, i don't know if that's necessarily how the market will go. i think we're all kind of speculating. let's draft the amendment and we'll have a final conversation about it tomorrow. the only point i was trying to make was as we start to handout these temporary permits that we know we're all committed to, i think we're going to see in a

quick amount of time how the industry adjusts in the first year. if there was an extreme movement one way or another, we have the ability to come back and adjust. i'm happy to support drafting that amendment and moving forward. and so, why don't we -- anything else? let's take public comment and come back to the amendments. we have your amendment as proposed. do you need more direction in terms of the management and security plan, should we come back to that after public comment? >> i think we have it but we'll prepare that for tomorrow to vote on. >> unless there's additional comments from colleagues here, and thank you supervisor sheehy for your leadership on this. i know you have been working hard on this, even over the weekend i was getting calls and trying to get the process going. i appreciate you sitting in today and all the thought put in

by my fellow committee members. i know we have a lot of other business to do. it's consuming a lot of our time. i'm going to open for public comment. each speaker has two minutes. please state your name clearly. i'm going to call the first two speakers and as you move on, feel free to stay but i know there are people waiting to come in as well. we normally would have been in the large room. nicole howl, doug block, alley gemalian and herald smith. >> good morning i'm an attorney that represents cannibis businesses, my firm represents operators throughout the state. thank you to supervisor sheehy for the amendments here today and the committee and office of

cannibis for the responsiveness to the needs of the industry and requirements of social justice through the equity program. so, as i am often proud to be part of the san francisco community and today is no exception and i appreciate the level of conversation that's been had. so good job so far. but there's a little bit of work to do. there are two points i would like to offer for your consideration. the first is with regard to ownership changes. at section 1808 subsection b i would like to ask the committee to please consider ownership change of up to 40% would be permitted. this services the needs of the existing operator to remain in control of the business. cannibis operations are expensive. it's going to be expensive for these businesses to continue to operate after they have a licence and they need the ability to take on the capital they need in order to do so.

so i ask you for that change and of course the change to 1608 subsection d for portable permits as well. and the second point in my 30 seconds has to do with consumption. we cannot have practical legalization without consumption areas. that is because it is illegal to consume publicly and while we have made possession legal, we have made illegal public consumption. therefore we must have consumption areas not only for tourists and folks coming to san francisco expecting that, but also for purposes of social justice. we're simply cutting and pasting the problem of selective enforcement. >> thank you ma'am. next speaker. >> thank you supervisors. doug block with teamsters joint council 7.

thank you for being above and beyond the state on labor standards. our goal has always been if the industry comes out of the shadows, the workers can choose union representation. to that end, we worked hard to shape the delivery model for cannibis to mirror liquor and beer drivers, including independent distributor from wholesaler to retail and requirement that deliveries be done by employees of permitted dispensaries with manifest for delivery and not independent contractors and that's important because independent contractors like uber drivers don't have the right to organize. it's an anti trust violation. furthermore, drivers are frequently robbed of product and cash, there are strict product tracking requirements and there are a whole other host of

reasons why an uber model, delivery model does not work. let me say since people have asked, we worked on the state regulations with ease. including working with them around the employee requirement. here in san francisco we have taken no position on their dynamic delivery model. furthermore unfortunately at this time we have no labor piece agreements with any of the dispensaries they work with or are in discussion but hope that changes in the future. thank you. >> next speaker. luke brunner, gilbert kinnard. >> hi supervisors. thank you for your work you're doing to keep us in business. i'm a member of the california growers association. i'm a local cultivator and own a

manufacture for edibles. it's good you guys are looking at the pre-permitting for the dispensaries but what about the supply chain. supervisor sheehy was the only one who brought it up, not giving us temporary permits for edibles or current non conform zones, you're driving us out of city. we just signed on a building in oakland because they do have the permit in place. we operate edible manufacturing out of a well known cafes here in the city, we have a separate part in their kitchen and when they leave at 3:00 and close, we take over. how can i get that permitted for temporary use for january 1st. essentially you're driving good businesses that have been here for over six years, we've been

paying our taxes and delivery to san francisco mcd's but we are going to be down for business or move. it's a loss of corporate taxes and loss of good businesses use as a role model and we're wondering why that's not in place i suppose when you take good care of the mcd's. who is going to supply them, breaking the supply chain essentially. >> so this -- you can't respond to me, it's not a back and forth. but i want to point out that's why we introduced that today, what you're referring to specifically is another area dph governs on permitted businesses and we're having a whole other conversation with them outside of the mcd conversation. it is very difficult to get accessory uses in the city, not just for you -- >> i understand that. but i think you under estimate how much the office of cannibis

has on their work list. they're not going to get to all of these before january 1st. >> thank you, next speaker. >> i'm herald smith. i have been a patient since 1994. my story echos supervisor sheehy's, we went through the same thing at the same time, part of the cohort of pioneer patients. i want to talk about safe consumption leads to compassion and compassion memorialized by regulation. without financial subsidy, the compassion represents, many of us myself included would be unable to afford enough retail cannibis to maintain our regiment of health. our industry will become nearly mercenary, lacking the vision, foundation and strength of purpose in our practice for many

years. we would like to see compassionate cannibis remains a reality in practice and tenant of the long standing compassion philosophy going forward. thank you. >> honorable supervisors, i'm luke brunner and if i were chair i would leave before my comment, too. firstly, i feel your public process thus far has been lacking and now at the 11th hour i want to commend supervisor fewer to getting into the difficult issue of sealed versus packaged and so forth. that's a critical issue that an entire room full of industry experts has been bringing to your attention for weeks now. and they have thus far been but barely heard. i commend you for moving forward

but perhaps not sufficiently enough and in enough time. supervisor fewer, you have made a case for the necessity of increased access to consumption lounges. similar to amsterdam and other cities where we see the unpackaged product available as some would say deli style or herbalist style. i think that's very important and what underlies this, a critical equity issue to address what has been otherwise lacking public process. that equity issue is the total number of sites available. both for consumption and non consumption. you will have greater minority access. you will have greater local business access. you will have more engaged persons. >> thank you. >> i still have 20 seconds left.

>> if you extend my time i would love to dialogue about this with you. we have asked for this repeatedly and 74% of the voters, the san francisco chronicle and every major media outlet has asked for this. i ask you to do the voters will. justice delayed is justice denied. >> gilbert -- >> i'm a disabled veteran and member of access of love. don't let the shirt mistake you, i'm actually a local, the shirt is from washington state, just the shirt -- i want to talk about compassion, there's clubs, i mean, you're talking about maintaining the integrity of the clubs, that's questionable. you have clubs now that offer buy two get one free as the compassion program. that's not a compassion program if you have to buy two to get the third one free.

that's not compassion. that's a rip off actually. the other problem with integrity, whether it's packaged or not, you have to have what most businesses have, fair trade practices. if you label it as lettuce, it should be lettuce. if you buy cannibis that says it's like 60% salt it should be. i see a lot of clubs, it's hard to get ahold of. you go to the club and say i want saltiva. they give you something else and you lost 30 or $40. you would think that's pretty basic. if you go to the store and think you're buying oatmeal, you don't want to end up with corn meal. whether it's packaged or not, they need to be honest about what they're doing.

>> i just want to call up some other names. joshua whites, susan king, johnny galiplane. kendra sugar. yes. >> thank you supervisors for all the work you have done, the office of cannibis and everybody who has worked on the equity

program. i run a delivery business here in san francisco, my comments will center around the equity program and things i think need to be recognized. i'm a life long san francisco resident born in the mission district -- >> you're joshua. >> yes. i would like to say as somebody who has cannibis [indiscernible] i feel under equity it should be -- extending the recognized years from 1971 to 2009 and change it from 1971 to 2016 based on the data that even under decriminalzation, communities were still more likely to be arrested than white brothers and sisters and i think that extension from 1971 to 2016 could loop those people into the equity program with cannibis felonies. and a critical component of the

equity program is the licencing of consumption lounges for all the reasons discussed already. but to highlight it again, preventing the continued criminalzation of poc communities. thank you. >> hello supervisors. i'm susan king, i'm a san francisco resident and activist. first, i wanted to thank you guys, this committee as well as the board as a whole and the departments involved for thoughtful and detailed deliberation to create a comprehensive and rational policy framework dealing with this new and growing industry. a couple of talking points i wanted to bring up, one is i really appreciate the equity. i know this is probably more of a land use sitting but the equity program is really vital to getting this right. making sure that the people who

have suffered the most under the war on drugs have an opportunity to benefit from this new industry. to that point, it is really important that we allow access and the buffer zones by limiting the number of locations will really restrict the equity program because if you make it a limited supply, the people with the most access will be the people with the most resources. if you want the equity program to work, you have to keep with the state wide rules of 600 feet and i want to advocate for grandfathering in the pipeline applicants. there are a number of businesses who had their paperwork in place but did not have a hearing set. and then finally compassion is really important for medical cannibis users to have access to their medicine. it's not covered by insurance

and so having a compassionate use program is important. and finally portability. it's important that the permit be tied to the operator and not the landlord. we have seen numerous disputes around that. and lastly, six seconds, temporary permit to january 1st. we can't lag at the starting line. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm the director of access of love, i operated a community center for over 10 years with a harm reduction lounge. i want to really thank supervisor sheehy for starting the process of compassion. there's still quite a bit to work out. of course i would like it to say must, not may have a compassion program. and equity and access is equal to equity and ownership.

poor patients have been here on the front lines for the last 15 years trying to get that message out. when we look at the state of washington and i get calls from patient advocates there all the time saying it's going to happen to you next and i say over my dead body are we going to have patients priced out of the system that we laid our bodies on the front line to create. we're not going to do that here. compassion needs to be defined as free. it's not a marketing gimmick, buy one get one free. buy this t-shirt. no, we need to have compassion programs that are low impact to the neighborhoods, that have the integrity of the medicinal contact like supervisor fewer was mentioning, we need to put that into the law. and it is much like the traditional chinese herbalists where you have that contact and

discussion about your medicine. let's keep compassion going. there are other discussions to have around it which i look forward to having with the director. we have stand alone compassion programs and our basic goal today was just to not block any of the compassion programs. we have to enstate sanctuary status against 64 and things that want to push to adult use. the patients are still here, we're still trying to survive. thank you. >> greetings supervisors. san francisco cannibis retailers alliance. i want to thank you for your patience in listening to public comment. i want to urge you to consider the industry and the task force as resources for you when you have additional questions. addressing the loose flower issue supervisor fewer, often they do that with a flower bar, all the products you can buy

loose are mandatory. i want to urge you to listen to the 74% of voters who want adult use implemented by january 1st and any bottleneck of temporary permits, perhaps they just have to file for the security plan before january 1st and the review process can take as long as it needs to. and i want to address the change of ownership restriction. this is important for all small entrepreneurs who have trouble raising money with cannibis. i have started seven companies and three have failed. raising money is really hard and anything that gets in the way is going to make little operators not succeed. the big operators don't have a problem. but small operators need options, i have seen infighting

between investors pull companies apart. single investor is often the best choice for entrepreneur. and align with the core values and goals of the entrepreneur. be able to roll up their sleeves and work with the entrepreneur. have higher incentive, contrary to popular belief, not all new cannibis businesses are going to be million dollar businesses. many of them will fail and we need to increase the change of ownership threshold for highest success. we have been asking for 49% -- >> thank you. i'm going to read another list of speaker names. david goldman ryan miller, denise dori. please come up here to speak.

>> good morning supervisors. i'm the president of the cannibis organizers group. a few things i want to talk about, i want to talk about consumption lounges, right now under 64 it's illegal to smoke anywhere or use cannibis anywhere in public, if we do it's a $100 fine, tobacco smoking is fine. it's $250 fine where prohibited. if we don't have more lounges you're going to have people smoking in the streets and parks and i'm sure that's not something you want to enshrine. and i want to talk about compassion, it goes beyond low income people. it's important where they can get the specific medicine they

need, not just swag or loose shake available at the end of the day by a dispensary. each product has different chemical properties and each one is different and needs specific use for each person. in addition, there's a 50% tax increase coming approximately on january 1st from the state mandated 64. there will be a lot of people who will have sticker shock when their $40 an eighth goes to $90 an eighth. unless you want to promote the black market and keep it alive and well, i strongly urge you have a compassion program for not just low income but average to low income as well. thank you. >> good morning. thank you for your important work to create framework for

legal cannibis and influencing inclusivity through equity and shake oakland policy. my name is ryan miller, i was born in san francisco and earned a degree from golden gate university. born into a single parent household, for me a private university education was only accessible through a gi bill. my understanding of the honorable intentions of the medical cannibis base for the war on drugs. what i hope to impart on you, the military and prison complex intersect in the same low income communities. the same communities that contribute to the prison pipeline, also experience the military pipeline. in 1973 the military draft ended

and what is known as the social economic draft. those in low economic communiti communities clammer through sweat, tears, the blood of our nations enemies and blood of american heros. i invite you to allow the emerging cannibis community to empower an overlooked community, my ask is to expand to military veterans. perhaps underserved veterans that receive less than honorable discharge for cannibis use could meet your standards for inclusion. combat veterans are only 10% of the community. perhaps they will earn your consideration.

>> thank you next speaker. >> good morning. my name is shane. i want to thank you guys for listening to everybody before me and everybody after me. i want to talk about the compassion program. i want you to keep it in the state and make sure it's safe for everybody. i'm a poor patient and i would like to see the task force maybe have patients in there as well. keeping room for everybody. and thank you for listening to me. >> thank you. yeah, we added the compassion program today. i appreciate you speaking on that. >> my name is denise dori, member of access love compassion community and produce six tv shows all about compassion. i want to ask you first on the top of the list, should be compassion programs for low income and no income, veterans and elders.

do you know any elders who don't have aches and pains and it prevents alzheimer's and half this room will experience alzheimer's whether it's them or their parents. one out of two or three get it. so i don't even believe there's such thing as recreational. but since we have to work with what we have because 64 was written to decimated the compassionate community. that's why it was written. we proved ourselves 20 years ago. it has been 20 years and dogs are still playing with cats i guess. so anyway compassion -- i can grow a pound of cannibis for $10. i know, i grow it outdoors and when you grow it outdoors, you can grow a pound for $10 it averages out. i figured out the cost for the water, soil, irrigation system figures in.

there's no real need -- we need to regulate greed. if we want to set an example for the world, we have been doing that every where else, we can do it here. we wouldn't have been vulnerable to putin if we regulated greed. i have lyme disease and i won't be eligible for a doctor's letter. we need to strengthen parameters and include more conditions. we need to diversify the task force. i don't feel represented on the task force and nobody really -- understands what we go through. 16 was a success and don't let hate groups define us in san francisco. thank you. >> next speaker please. kendra saver, david mccarthy, michelle --

>> hi. i want to say thank you for the compassion. yes, we need loose leaf. when you go to a pharmacist, isn't it loose in the bottles in the back already. come on, it's the same thing. okay. we need patients on the task force so we are all represented, and 600 feet zone is -- that's it. this is ridiculous. all right. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, i want to first thank you for taking the time and really evaluating this process and figuring out what works best. as you see, there's a lot of people here who support this. and i really feel that it is important to provide consumption lounges for people to have a safe place to medicate and consume responsibly, so one it's

part of the healing process and two, there's people not consuming on the streets. if there's concern that it smells or it's not comfortable, then having a place where people can go and consume it in a safe place, this will provide safety and an environment where it's avoided and in a safe place. so i think that consumption lounges will be a great way for -- yeah, to allow this -- i think consumption lounges will be a great way where people can go and not consume outside. the more consumption lounges that are opened will prevent people from consuming outside. it's important not to have one or two or three. it's important to allow multiple consumption lounges. there will be multiple tourists

here. make sure you allow more than the amount open right now. also it's important to allow equity program and make sure you allow equity program, there has to be enough properties available. if there's not enough property available and the square foot is not appropriate, you're not going to have a great equity program. in my terrible speech i guess my point is to allow consumption lounges and enough of them and good equity program. thanks. >> thank you, next speaker. david mccarthy. jan, michael cowen. terrence allen. >> i'm a veteran and member of access of love and operation evac which is a veterans group that means educating veterans about cannibis.

i want to say it's really important we get diversity and the task force to allow patient groups to have a say about compassionate care. and i know you are hearing some things over again, but it's so important because the opposition gets up here and goes over and over again about their speel. and we need equity for the dispensaries as far as the footage, so that people can find optimal places to open up. and bottom line, compassion care for veterans, low and no income patients and seniors is very, very important. the dispensaries not only should be required to have compassion program, but they shouldn't be scared off by having to pay extra permit or tax or whatever

to said program. i know they pay bulk tax when the medicine comes in the back door of current medical dispensaries, they shouldn't have to pay yet again to give it away. and so we just hope that you understand that principle that some people quit having compassion programs because it was financially not feasible anymore for them. and, you know, also i hope every dispensary that had to close because of federal issues and stuff that had great compassion programs four or five of them >> thank you sir. next speaker. michael cowen, terrence allen, nina parks, michael ledbetter.

>> good afternoon. my name is michael cowen. i'm secretary of the democratic club. i want to make a suggestion, that is for with compassion program, how about tying it to medicare. that way you could track it, it would handle people who are already in the system and i think it would be practical way to manage a compassion program. second point is i think we're going to need more consumption lounges, we have eight in the city. we're going to have thousands of more patients medicating and we need to find a place where they can medicate safely and away from schools, parks and other locations where it's not going to be allowed.

my last request is that please do not overregulate cannibis. this is a new industry, we -- it needs to be managed but it also needs to be managed in a responsible way and overregulation will damage it and could kill it. thank you so much. >> good afternoon supervisors. excuse me. my name is greg goodbetter. i'm co-chair of the rose kenya group, a small group of patients that share medicine and activities here in the city. i am also sit on the chair of the board of the mental health here in san francisco. i think i have a good solution to the cry for smoking lounges

and it would be a great idea for all of our community to be able to turn around and heal together. a community center in this city is desperately needed where all of us, all different ethnic groups and parts of the medical cannibis community can come together for events and just have harm reduction groups and things like that. these lounges are great idea but that's just what they are, lounges. medical cannibis patients need healing places, places they can have bingo, movie nights, or just be able to sit down and talk to one another. with that i'm going to close but know that patients in san francisco are waiting for you guys to make the best decisions that they can get out of you for

medical cannibis in general. thank you. >> next speaker please. i think we got a little out of order. >> i'm terrence allen. i've been h.i.v. positive since the early 80s and chair of the task force. there are members of the task force, i encourage you rules committee to appoint those members and encourage more patient voices. there is no practical legalization without consumption and really no legalization without compassion. if i went to all of the cannibis consumption lounges in the last week, i added up how many patients are allowed as of right into the eight consumption lounges and supervisors do you know the number i came up with? 175. that is all the patients that

fit at one time in all eight consumption lounges. there's no space for tourists and we don't want to put them on the sidewalk. as we talk about the eight, we have to understand the restrictions of size and access that the dispensaries have put on the eight locations. 175. there's no equity without property. without an address, the equity program is broken. so the overregulation that is the tendency of trying to get out of the just say no message, we have to keep coming back to make sure we don't exclude through overcomplication. there's no public process without the task force. i thank you for expanding it another year and i'm open for this rules committee to expand the membership of the 14 and make it as representative of the community as we can. and there's no representation if we don't listen to those 74% of

the voters. cannibis users will be disappointed. 414,000 voted for it, they represent a clear majority. thank you. >> next speaker. >> hello, good morning. my name is nina parks. i'm an advocate through super nova women, women of color organization, we have been participating in san francisco's equity cannibis equity working group. we have been convening with quite a few people affected by the equity program and experts to help to strengthen the data that we needed to be able to push the most equitable playing field that we can. and also as a business owner with my brother who spoke before me, obviously we have a lot of

horses in this race. so equity issues, one in regards to licencing, the licencing requirement says felonies considered from 1971 to 2009, however like my brother said, 2016 we were still seeing african americans arrested at 10 times higher than any other rates in san francisco and 2.4 times higher than african americans anywhere else in california. that was within the human rights commission report submitted. in regards to other equity issues. capital and real estate is a big issue. us having shared locations, multiple businesses in one space would be helpful to us on equity. delivery, delivery was preserved to have a low barrier retail

access, like equity businesses, where they would be able to enter. so to be able to -- to have a static manifest is going to be difficult for us. to go back and forth it would not make us competitive with the larger people. i know there's a lot of conversation -- >> next speaker. >> i'm david carter, we're hoping to make the transition. today i want to talk to you about a couple of things i heard here, other people talking about, one is the ownership, it would be -- it would make it a lot easier for businesses my

size which i already said is small if we were able to attract a larger percentage of investors than what i think you said right now is 20% which is a start but to expand it would be helpful. also consumption is really important thing, obviously we have heard it mentioned a number of times today. we need consumption sites. i think i heard we have eight right now. we're about to go into adult use, the pool of cannibis users is going to explode i like what

miss fewer said about the access. creating an access to lower income is important. and supervisor yee, it's great about the chinese medicine reference. >> thank you sir. next speaker. excuse me sir. sorry. aaron ash. gregory ledbetter, andre

greenburg, aaron ash. okay, we're going to skip them. >> we're here. >> come forward. >> sorry about that. >> that's okay. >> good morning. i'm andy greenberg, one of the co-owners of a small women's medical cannibis collective in san francisco. we primarily work at private parties, educating women and selling products, we also have a small delivery aspect to our business. like i said, education is a big aspect of what we do. i really want to thank the supervisors of this committee and the office of cannibis for putting on the record and working on the education aspect for this community, cannibis policy is not developed in a vacuum but is a long and complex history. i thank you for acknowledging that. this is important to understand in order to educate people and

battle misunderstanding. we at society jane support the two step regulatory process, this will give us a pathway forward and allow us to remain in business. to that end, it's essential to have co-location or space sharing allowed. we also support the compassion program, the portability of permits, the 18 year age requirements for employees of medical businesses, technical assistance and importantly on site consumption locations. i also support the san francisco cannibis equity working group and all they're asking for to make equity possible, buffers between mcd's, cannibis businesses and schools should not be increased but i would argue decreased to 500 feet. we also support what i have been hearing today about the

increasing the ownership chains from 20% to anywhere less than 50. thank you for your time. >> thank you next speaker. >> good afternoon. thank you for your time. i'm aaron ash, a law student here in san francisco, vice president of students for sensible drug policy. i'm here to show support for the amendment that supervisor sheehy proposed today. compassion is extremely important. addressing supervisor fewer's concerns, state regularlations do allow loose leaf to be on display. i appreciate the concerns of finding the right quality of cannibis for each individual patient. consumption is huge. the voters voted to legalize cannibis, if we limit consumption to be only eight places we are recriminallize cannibis and pushing people out

on the streets. i really appreciate your support for a stronger equity program. overall i think it's great. i do want to echo some of the concerns of the other speakers, you should extend the conviction window to 2016, i worked at the public defenders office in san francisco all summer, i have seen that continues to be a problem. communities of color are targeted way more than any other community in san francisco. recently as 2016, a federal judge ruled that the ss police used racially selective law enforcement. i'm sure you remember the case where all 37 detectives were african american. the video show the police going up to white drug dealers and declining to buy the drugs and going and arresting black people. i think even after 64 it's been a huge problem.

extending the window to 2016 is important. >> thank you next speaker. chris emerson. betsy cabiker. >> i'm senior member of access of love. and i'm a disabled veteran. i also was born in san francisco in district 11 and all i wanted to stress again about having patients and advocates of the community in the process of the task force so we can get input from the community as well. i also like to stress education, especially to the schools because i have been smoking cannibis since 18, my three nieces i have raised have been

educated with drug education and they have a few points about cannibis use they were against and i was proud of that. i explained to them what is good for me may not be good for you. i wanted to explain to you that when i was living in oakland, i lost my unit because i got run over by a car here in san francisco. i ended up in a shelter for eight months in a wheelchair and had nowhere else to go. this is why it's important to have dispensaries where low income and disabled can at least go and stay until closing time even. play bingo games, chest games, open mike. things like this that -- if you talk about a problem with homeless, this would be a perfect idea, especially for those who smoke cannibis, thank you. >> thank you next speaker. chris emerson, betsy and jessie

stout. >> hi, i manage two of the consumption spaces in san francisco among other businesses in cannibis. consumption spaces are for education, not necessarily for recreation, but be able to get information, if you didn't have that source you would have to sift through forums online and that's not really from experts necessarily. so being able to have access to those spaces is extremely important. even if it is simply for recreation to have a city with only eight bars is a little crazy to me. i'm sure you guys feel the same way. another point i want to bring up, shared manufacturing space. i also have been developing an edible company for a few years trying to make it compliant and seeing the overhead is too much for an individual within the space. to share the cost with other

entrepreneurs in the space would be beneficial to me among 400 people part of the california edibles manufacturing alliance, this is a problem that many people are faced with. along the lines. having event permits available that are just temporary. >> good afternoon. i'm jessie stout, thank you for having me.

i appreciate you taking so much public comment and hearing everyone out this morning. it's an important issue to many people in the community. i remember back in september at the board when supervisor fewer requested the equity report from the office of cannibis and now this november 1st, the equity report has come out, i remember when the members of our community who were present were promised no adult use cannibis permits would be issued until after the program. people harmed by the war on drugs will be granted permits for retail and non retail cannibis uses. i appreciate the commitment from the city. we're looking forward to land use this afternoon when we understand the compromise will be offered to allow for some businesses to be licensed for adult use this coming january. that's wonderful quick progress. i'm grateful to the board for

working so diligently to address it quickly. i really want to emphasize that it's so important to members of the community working group and others commenting on the issues all along, the equity permits will be included so people harmed by the war on drugs can get permitted at the same time or sooner than other businesses. we don't want businesses to be licensed for adult use when equity permits are not yet available. please consider the timing and impact it will have on the equity program, it will make much more of a difference if they can start business at the same time or sooner as other mcd's and others operating the space. >> thank you. next speaker.

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