my name is david owen. thank you for addressing this issue. i spent number of years coming in and out of this room in a different role at the board of supervisors. at the time we were regulating supervisors. there was one commission i have never spoken before. thank you for the staff in your department who are working so closely with various folks in this community. it is laudable. i work in a slightly different capacity. it is the same collect yiffs of various sizes and various parts of california. one year in san francisco and elsewhere. i want to stress there are many areas of cultivation which fit in the structure legally for how this should occur. i want to encourage you as this process goes forward to consider what some other juries dicks have already done. san francisco in 2005, when we led in this area, were leaders. san francisco and oakland were inventing the idea. the determine "dispensary" didn't exist. now there are many areas that have addressed dispension -- napa, and many other places. they have bifurcated between individual cu