the teamsters urge you to approve this amendment to create a cannabis commission. thank you. >> my name ise today marcus andm a cannabis user living in fran. i would like to rewind a bit and bring to your attention that the public showed it's support of cannabis as a fantastic medicine with minimal use for harm. let's stop creating impediments to research and urgently needed medical research with cannabis. [reading] as supervisors of the city you carry great responsibility, please show some compassion. i ask you to consider the question in a basic matter, why are there such excessive regulations on cannabis. there seems to b some confusion about the lower than expected state revenue and i would like to bring to your attention that i'm not sure why there is confusion. tried and truer economics deter people for various reasons and many people do go to the black market. please don't forgets a you consider changing the hurdles that must be overcome that we are fortunate to have many pioneers of cannabis that work not to fill their pockets but to take care of those in ne

sorry, i forgot to put on, but supervisor fewer did reintroduce legislation for creating a cannabis commission. so i haven't looked at the details of that, and i'm going to work to try to get that scheduled before this body, as well. so -- and then, lastly, just workshops, other workshops that we want just to remind the commission or just to inform the commission that martha does classes at the s.b.a. monthly -- martha yanez, on starting a business 101, and she also has been once a quarter conduct the class in spanish? and she also does the same workshop at the renaissance center. this wednesday is the sfcdma gala at the olympic club. and then, the asian american business mixer, which we traditionally hold during small business week, that is being scheduled for the -- this thursday. so -- and -- and then, i do want to do a shout out to our public library, the san francisco public library for being selected basically the public library of the year out of all the city libraries. so -- so congratulations to our library. >> an academy award for them. >> yeah, it is. >> okay. do we have any members

and then last week, supervisor fewer introduced an amendment for cannabis commission. so there are a couple of highlights i would like to note. and then next month, june, we'll be back to our regular schedule for meetings. again, just really want to acknowledge that we had a really fantastic week. all of the affiliate events were sold out. good attendance with the conference. i think most everybody really likes it have -- we got positive feedback in changing the awar awards ceremony for a morning. and thank you for emceeing it. and commissioner ortiz-cartegana wanted to thank for the latino business mixer, also in partnership with wells fargo. it was very inspiring and businesses that presented on the panel were, i think, really highlighted tremendous accomplishments of latino businesses. >> great. any -- go ahead. any commissioner comments? >> yeah. i also wanted to say, great job to our director, who has put in so much work for small business week. and also kept up with us and our concerns for upcoming meetings, so i appreciate all the work you've put in. >> thank yo

cannabis in the home office. seward resisted attempts to do isa office. seward resisted attempts to do is a rebuff a royal commissioncannabis, and yesterday was asked about the billy caldwell case, she cited the impact of cannabis potentially on families more broadly, and i think her view is that cannabis can very often be a gateway drug. nevertheless, there is huge pressure now including personally on mrs may this she met the mother of alcide dingley back in march and, well, —— alfie dingley. her mother said what happened. we met on the 20th of march, she met my children and my family, we sat down with ministers and she assured us in that meeting that we would find a legal way to provide alfie with the medicine he was using in holland. way to provide alfie with the medicine he was using in hollandm was clear his symptoms were greatly reduced. they accepted that and they said they would find a compassionate and speedy way in which at doctors can prescribe for alfie. that was three months ago. she said to make us three months ago. she said to make us look me in the eye and said she would help me and i believed her. a

it's not as expansive as the discussion that the commission had during cannabis, not that it would be specific for cannabis, but the need for figuring out how to open up the restaurant environment and the kitchens for needed commercial space. so this is one step being taken in that direction. so i'm happy to take any questions. >> vice-president dwight: educate me here. this is a distinction between limited restaurant and full restaurant? >> limited restaurant, and i have the definition right after your tab, so limited restaurant, i mean, it offers -- the distinction between a limited restaurant is that it either does not have beer and wine or it has as type 20 license. a restaurant that has any other type of alcohol is considered a restaurant under the planning. so we no longer usefu full serve restaurant. most of the definition is around liquor license. >> vice-president dwight: so limited restaurants are open fewer hours than those with full liquor license? >> typically and typically more daytime hours. >> vice-president dwight: and so the idea is to use the expensive asset, buildi

as i'm sure you remember, this commission heard and passed comprehensive cannabis legislation late last year. that ordinance set universal standards for every neighborhood district and chinatown district including extraordina standard distances from school. no existing have yet converted to a permanent cannabis retailer. the planning department is recommending approval with modifications. the modification would be to put a two year sunset provision on the prohibition so it may be reevaluated once the existing restrictions have taken effect. that concludes my presentation. >> president hillis: all right. while we await mr. hepner, let's open it up for public comment, if there is any other this item. how are you? >> i heard that this is really early, 12:00, no marijuana shop in chinatown. this is the subject we are talking about, right? >> president hillis: correct. >> well, based on supervisor peskin resolution that no marijuana in chinatown forever, and, you know, he spoke all of chinatown, and most of the chinese community, and according to the newspaper, they support that. but i don't

cannabis outlets. and in many cases, it's going to fall upon this commission to determine what is the best location and what is the best operator for a particular neighborhood. none of those considerations have been made. about a month ago, there was a horserace where the equity applicants filed their applications with the highest tech electronic speed racers to be first in line. and that's the way the applicants were selected for each community. as restrictions state, not more than one retail cannabis vendor can be within a 600-foot radius. most of those are going to be coming before you as conditional use, but they're coming one at a time. you will not see the alternate applications waiting in the background to see if they can get approved if the first application is not. these have only been vetted by the office of cannabis for the qualifications are the equity partner, not for the appropriateness of the management team or of the location. i would suggest that you will see a lot of this and see a lot of confusion about what the planning commission role is in selecting the eventual retailers. and it

been implacably opposed to legalising cannabis, she resisted drug law reform when she was in the home office and chichi botched the idea of having a royal commissionthe impact of cannabis and families. so she won't change your mind on that. more interesting is whether there will be a change on legalising medicinal use of cannabis. this seems to be more fluid of cannabis. this seems to be more flu id partly of cannabis. this seems to be more fluid partly because of a high profile cases we have had recently and also because over time there's been a shift of opinion in parliament. not sort of high profile should come you don't have ministers suddenly saying, we should legalise medicinal cannabis but at a lower level, all the main parties signed to legalising cannabis for medicinal use. in the tory party this growing a cce pta nce use. in the tory party this growing acceptance of the argument, what i find surprising that it is often the most unusual tories as a book that move, people you would not imagine would be sympathetic to that kind of drugs reform, people likejulian lewis, mike penning, iain duncan smith, figures on the right of the party, as i

today, a few moments ago in the house of commons, the government commissioned a full review of medicinal cannabiscess wide open and is on the verge of changing thousands of lives. by bringing medicinal cannabis laws in line with many other countries. we are on the threshold of the next chapter of the history book. i want to close this particular page of the history book with meetings today with the health secretary and the home secretary. a week ago, they would have been left with their ears ringing, today, it will be to thank them for seeing and hearing sense and joining us in creating history in the united kingdom. thank you. so there we are. a brief statement from charlotte caldwell, the mother of 12—year—old billy who has acute epilepsy and who has been fighting that campaign for billy to be ploughed cannabis oil supplies that she brought in from canada for her son. and there was, of course, wide outrage when those supplies were confiscated from her. we can go to the weather now and thatis we can go to the weather now and that is with darren. thank you very much. we have a mixture of weather

her son's cannabis based drugs were confiscated last week as she went through heathrow airport. this is what she had to say. aafew a a few moments ago, the government commissionede have mentioned making history. and we have mentioned it because, common—sense, and the power of mothers and fathers of sick children has burst the political process wide open, and is on the verge of changing thousands of lives. that was charlotte caldwell, mother of billy caldwell, and in the last few minutes, the apple ii been hearing reaction to the home secretary's statement from the mother of six old alfie dingley. i am very overwhelmed, we have worked as a family towards this moment for a long time, as i am just absolutely overwhelmed and delighted that we have been able to get a licence for ourson, and he have been able to get a licence for our son, and he is going to be safe, now. what does it mean for your son? it means that instead of having hundreds of seizures and month, he is now going to have them pretty much a normal life. he will go to school, he can make friends, we can go on holiday. he has got a genetic condition that causes behavioural problems and learning difficu

commissions. that means a lot. supervisor cohen has also been a leader on ensuring equity goals are met in the emerging cannabis industry is something i know means a lot to many of us on this board of supervisors. i believe that in this time of great change in our city, not just great change in the mayor's office, but also on the board of supervisors, where we will have at least five new colleagues in a very short period of time, that as we are transitioning after a tough election season, and another tough one, in just a few months, that supervisor cohen will provide the ability that this body needs after quite a tumultuous time in the city. so it would be my great pleasure today to be supporting the nomination of supervisor cohen for the next board president s see. >> thank you. >> thank you. it is an honor to support a friend of mine that i have known for almost 15 years. someone that we started our political journey together on a campaign for mayor and here we are. congratulating our new mayor elect. i think that this transition is appropriate. it is timely. we have an opportunity to bring this board together in a un

commission hearing date in 90 days. just to reiterate the point, uses that currently require condition use in district 4 are not changing under this legislation. formula retail, anything related to cannabis, other uses such as bars continue to have a condition use under this. >> this is just basically general retail to general retail or general retail to restaurants? >> to restaurants, right, some jurisdictions just have category general retail. the san francisco planning code has many, many categories for general retail. this is really about saying in our district particularly district 4 we want restaurants to come. we have gone through when small businesses call we help through permitting process and they pay rent on "the space" because they think the space is permitted they don't know they have to go through this process. they pay rent for even nine months before that process is completed. again, this is like removing the change of use process, trying to make it faster. >> also we are doing other changes to the nc districts in district 4. we will allow arts activities on the ground four. they are primarily used in the pdr districts. we would like to see it in our neighborhood commerci